Derek Johnson
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Austin, Texas, United States |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | I don't believe in ghosts...I don't believe in vampires...I don't believe in demons, angels, astrology, werewolves, JFK conspiracy theories, Feng shui, utopias, God, Satan, pyramid power, Freud, Marx, Buddha, prayer, the power of positive thinking, poltergeists, reincarnation, UFO's, Bigfoot, grapho-analysis, whole grain cereals, Jesus, Patsy Ramsey's innocence, an afterlife or...fill in the blank...I may believe in the Beatles. The jury's still out on that. But I definitely do not believe in Yoko. I am, in John Keats's words, "...certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination." -- Dan Simmons |
| Interests | film, photography, art, genre fiction, popular culture, history, philosophy, science, technology, society, culture, Dharma |
| Favorite Movies | Alphaville, Blade Runner, The Bourne Trilogy, Brazil, Casino Royale, Chinatown, The Conversation, Dark City, Dawn Of The Dead (1978), Die Hard, Double Indemnity, Dr. Strangelove, Eastern Promises, The Exterminating Angel, Fargo, Full Contact, A Hard Day's Night; Infernal Affairs, Jaws, The Killer, Last Year At Marienbad, The Maltese Falcon, Mulholland Drive, M*A*S*H, Once Upon a Time in the West, Point Blank, Reservoir Dogs, The Seven Samurai, Sex and Zen, The Third Man, This Is Spinal Tap |
| Favorite Music | The Beatles, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, John Cage, John Coltraine, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Miles Davis, Buddy Holly, Metallica, Dean Martin, Moby, Thelonius Monk, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Lou Reed, The Rolling Stones, Frank Sinatra, Sting and the Police, The White Stripes, The Who |
| Favorite Books | The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard, The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks, The Abolition of Work and Other Essays by Bob Black, The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick, Axiomatic by Greg Egan, Slippage by Harlan Ellison, Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, A Game of You by Neil Gaiman, Neuromancer by William Gibson, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, Dr. Adder by K.W. Jeter, The Nightrunners by Joe R. Lansdale, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Deserted Cities of the Heart by Lewis Shiner, Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons, The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut |
You laughed so hard you can't catch your breath. Stick out your tongue and show us what's funny:
I've folded my tongue into an origami feather.