Mixtape 82 (2022): Amazon Music Playlist featuring Carina Round of Puscifer, Dodie, and Jacob Koller
BWDerge Blog Archives
Poetry Writing
Poetry from Paradox Locked (2018): “Constipated Consciousness”
Poem about growing numb to the horrors of the modern world. Written in 2018 by BW Derge, featured in PARADOX LOCKED, “Constipated Consciousness” is about the swelling of emotions that appear to have no easy outlet as we feel more helpless…
Prose Writing
How to Deal with Existential Dread : 10 Strategies
Top 10 Strategies for Dealing with Existential Dread: Existential dread can creep in when you least expect it—a quiet moment, a sleepless night, or even in the middle of a busy day.
Jams Music
Jam Notes Podcast: Talking Deftones, Miyazaki, Wizards, and Demons
Talking about music we played on February 28, 2023. This episode is about listening – Crank It Up. We’re talking Miyazaki movie settings (not America).
Fiction Prose Writing
Push the Button: Reality is as Limitless as a Dream
Written in 2025, “Push the Button: Reality is as Limitless as a Dream” is a short story by BW Derge about a couple traversing across multiple universes, grappling with the fragility of their existence and the seeming futility of life. Would you push the button, knowing reality is as limitless as a dream?
Mix Playlists Music
Do You See What Happens When You Fuck with a Poet? (2024)
After one of the more chaotic, exciting, and tumultuous times in my (recent) life (May to December 2024), that saw me switch jobs, coach a little league team to the semi-finals, and become more immersed in both art and family… after months of refining, here is the soundtrack mix for that time. On Amazon Music, my 92nd mixtape, “Do you see what happens when you fuck with a poet?”
Poetry Writing
2025 American Poetry: “The Trifecta (Primary Colors)”
New poem by BW Derge, written in 2025 about the primary emotions, Sadness, Joy, and Anger as personified gods. “The Trifecta”
Music Writing
Albums by the Band Tool – Ranked. Best Tool Albums.
Ranking all six of Tool’s records, including the EP Opiate and the six LPs, not including bonus releases like Salival or Opiate 2.
Jams Music
Spy Movies, Video Games, and Weird Endings (Jam Notes Podcast)
Talking about 2 jams, new positions, and more. Both are from January 2024, 1 is 5 minutes with a weird ending. 2nd jam is less than a minute long, was that intentional? They’re talking spy movies, too.
Fiction Prose Writing
Original Short Story: The Goddess of the Oceanic Realm
A weird short story strewn together from two pages of rambling, practically incoherent, nonsense trying to become a tale. Most of this was rewritten recently, and it became a weird story about a shipwrecked World War II pilot, a shark, and a goddess of the sea.