First things first. I know The End is the Beginning… (Pt. 2) is long overdue. I apologize. I’m working on it now and it should be up in the very near future.
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“The beauty of you naming this ‘Stockholm Syndrome,’ I exclaimed to Derek, “is that all those haters out there could have stopped this train ride for themselves at anytime!”
As we sat next to Fort Sumner in Derek’s backyard we discussed the whole fiasco with the man who was one of about three folks driving the Stockholm Syndrome train. As things came out this thing got more and more beautiful. But I digress. Let’s go back to the beginning of the night.
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So Derek will be playing a one-hour show at The Rutledge in Nashville on the 3rd of July. I’ll be there if I have to sleep in my car to hold my place in line. [Actually, I'll just go eat at the Mexican place next door. I've been to The Rutledge many a time at this point.]
at around 12:15AM on day two the first artifact and the details about it were revealed. Robert Gay, whose name you will find listed on www.paradiseisaparkinglot.com as the finder of the first nashville artifact, posted on a message board about the artifact.
My name is Robert Gay. I’m a 20-year-old student and musician, but more relevantly, I’m the guy who snagged the first “artifact” this morning at Ugly Mugs in East Nashville. It was a silver thumb drive, printed with the barcode/heart logo, and in theory a photo of me holding it should serve as my profile picture here.
My story’s pretty simple — after deciphering the clues and driving to the coffeeshop, I asked for the fake drink and was given the thumb drive, which contained the “in San.wav” file which is now hosted on paradiseisaparkinglot.com. Also on the drive were 2 images: one was a square image of the barcode-heart labeled “dwss.jpeg,” which I presume to be the album’s cover. The other image was a snapshot of an eye — in fact, the eye photo from the rss stream is a cropped version of my image, which contained additional instructions for me.
Upon realizing that all 5 of us must have received different photos or instructions, I’m willing to bet that the other 4 artifact finders had the 4 remaining rss items contained on their thumbdrives. I have the feeling there’s some kind of clue to be found here.
I’m happy to answer any other questions you have, as well as to give you more proof that I am who I say I am.
-Robert
PS: I was notified that I will recieve “a tier 3 preorder of Stockholm Syndrome and 2 tickets to the Black Eye Tour.
What are these preorder tiers?
How many tiers are there?
What is the Black Eye Tour?
Stay tuned for the answers!
Hey folks. We are attempting to put up a daily recap of all that is going on with the release of Derek’s new record Stockholm Syndrome. While a daunting task, we hope that this will help those who can’t keep up moment by moment all day because of work or other responsibilities…etc.
So here we go!
It began at about 6AM this morning. The following email went out.
friends-
this is turning into a bigger deal than we expected. as a result, we’re having to temporarily _pull everything online down (can’t explain now). and to be on the s_afe side, i’m going to pe_rsonally go offline while we sort this out. i re_ally shouldn’t use my twitter account for now either so _don’t expect any updates there.
make no m_istake, our trouble with the label over content i_s very r_eal, and not as simple as one word; we’re backed into a corner. but we have applied all of our creative resources to th_is, working furiou_sly to create something that we believe not only subverts any leg_al issues but should also be a _pretty wild ride.
so this will be the l_ast email for a while. we’ll t_ry to lea_k information via a new tw_itter account, @ssyndrome. you’re o_n your own so start payin_g attention. i’l_l see you _on the o_ther side-
derek
the spaces spell out “paradise is a parking lot” Searching for clues someone stumbled upon www.paradiseisaparkinglot.com wich takes you to a site that looks like this:
This site let’s us know a few things:
1.) There are 20 sets of artifacts to be found
2.) It lets us know the rules for finding artifacts ..etc.
-Follow instructions to location
-Do what instructions require
-First 5 people to each location will receive artifacts
(First person’s name to be posted on this site)
-Email verify@ssyndrome.info with code found on artifact
-When all 5 artifacts are found and verified, their audio contents will be available to all
-Assemble audio content (stems) to hear complete track
-Tell no one
3.) Each set of artifacts found will unlock a set of wavs that will be spliced together.
4.) The “RSS” link points to several files (including a few pictures and a few movies)
5.) The “Follow” link is a pointer to the twitter account that was set up (@ssyndrome)
A cryptic link on derekwebb.com led you to a screen that asked
What do you want?
based on tweets that were posted here a few weeks ago this question pointed to lyrics from the new record.
What you want? “kickdrum”
After entering that code you see a big picture if Derek with a URL on/near his eye that says “www.black-eye.me” Going to that site give you another question that can be answered by our twitter post “What time it is?” which is answered with the code “youneverknow” which opens a video showing clips of instruments; Houston, TX; and plays a bit of a song.
So. At the end of Day One, where are we?
- We know the 1st set of artifacts were located in Ugly Mugs coffee shop in East nashville and they were flash drives. More on this in our next post
- We have a videos that range from off camera discussions to teepees to what looks like an intro video of some kind.
-we have several pictures of derek’s face and a black eye
- We know that things derek has posted on twitter in the past can be used as clues for further puzzles.
- We alsop know that based on the newest file in the RSS feed that the next artifact set may be in TX at Royers Round Top
Stay tuned for daily recaps and special reports here on dw.net!
Yeah, so we’ve been letting Derek drive the bus lately on news about Stockholm Syndrome. It’s his bus. But now there’s a code to figure out, and … well, Bryan is a crazy Lost fan, so you know we’re all about it.
We don’t figure we’re going to solve the puzzle; we will, however, summarize what’s known about the puzzle to date. So, here’s what we know as of mid-morning on May 19th:
There are 20 stems on paradiseisaparkinglot.com … what could that mean? A 20-track record? 20 stems of one song? We’ll find out together.
For those that don’t follow Derek on twitter here are some updates he’s posted in the last few months or so:
-finishing lyrics for an electro-industrial do wop song about fred phelps
-new song started, written, & recorded today. finished lyric while singing the final vocal. sleep now, then wake up and see if it sucks
-i don’t want the spirit, i want the kickdrum
-well, I think this new record might be the one that finally does it. what ‘it’ is, I won’t say.
-spent a few hours conspiring with the record company this morning. things are going to get interesting soon
-headed over to the booking company to rattle the cages, prepare them for the madness that will be the stockholm syndrome tour
-when stockholm syndrome comes to where they’re keeping you, you never know what time it is
-jena & jimmy met at a rally to bring our boys back from the war
-nothing a little black face paint won’t fix
-the better part of 8 songs & a record cover finished. last flight out to nashville…
-considering going to new lengths to ruin my reputation
-completely wrote/recorded new song in the last 2 hours… making up for lost time i guess
-at ugly mugs writing. getting really close on this record folks… news coming soon
We have had it on good authority for a while now that Derek’s next album was going to be different. And now it’s official! If you don’t get Derek’s newsletter (for which there is no excuse and you should remedy that right now!) here is what the latest one had to say, among other things.
Derek’s back in the studio, readying Stockholm Syndrome
It’s been over a year since Derek released his critically acclaimed The Ringing Bell, and he’s currently writing and recording his new album, which we hear is going to be titled Stockholm Syndrome. He’s collaborating with long time friend and former Caedmon’s Call bandmate Josh Moore on what is rumored to be a more experimental, electronic album.
Teasing with programmed and decidedly more ‘inorganic’ elements, Stockholm Syndrome is shaping up to be Derek’s most ambitious album to date.
Be on the lookout for a tentative May 2009 release.
We also know that Derek is feverishly working in the studio all this month on the record. This record is shaping up to be one of Derek’s boldest musical statements yet!
Stay tuned to dw.net for updates!
Derek’s set and discussion time is 80 minutes long, but hey, don’t you have some holiday coming up? This has to be better than watching the Lions get pasted on Thanksgiving, right?
