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Well Derek Webb is at it again with his new marketing campaign for his latest album “Stockholme Syndrome”.
He is releasing bits of information all over the internet, using codes, twitter and coffee shops around the country.
I will be updating this page with what I’ve figured out or found the answers too. This post will contain spoilers so if you want to figure this all out for yourself then go to DerekWebb.com and start there.
Update 6/23:
Two new videos can be found at SSyndrome.info
http://www.ssyndrome.info/ok.mov
http://www.ssyndrome.info/giveup.mov
The “OK” movie has more Morse code in it which says 36.1566501 -86.77181 which are GPS coordinates to Nashville.
Update 6/16:
In each stem you download from Paradise is a Parking Lot you will find a picture. The picture from the Lexington Stem is of the ball on top of the building where the Dallas stem was found. In the Dallas stem there is a picture of the Grand Rapids Speedrome which doesn’t exist anymore. Here is a link to where it used to be.
Instructions should be coming today, we’ll see if the theory is correct. Stay Tuned
P.S. people on twitter are saying the next stem will be at Vertigo Records in Grand Rapids MI. Which doesn’t open till noon on the 17th.
Update:
Three new tweets with clues
You have 12 hours starting now, until Waco time (PM)
thi_s is s_tupid. who car_es. i’_m leaving. i’m only going to say this _2 times.
am i _r_eally trouble_d? are y_ou? _what does that mea_n? te_ll me y_our truth _an_d i’ll tell you mine.
Code reads “Re download Stem 2″
Go to Paradiseisaparkinglot.com and download stem 2, inside the zip file is another song called “Freddie Please”
The song is about Fred Phelps
freddie, please
how could you do this to me?
how could you tell me you love me
when you hate me?
freddie, please
you know i love you, honey
i’ll bleed you dry with money
i’ll talk where i know you can hear
cause freddie, can’t you see?
brother, you’re the one
who’s queer
freddie, please
how could you do this to me?
how could you tell me you love me
when you hate me?
freddie, please
the stone’s been rolled away
but your picketing my grave
for lovin’ the things you hate
but why do you seek
the living among the dead?
freddie, please
how could you do this to me?
how can you tell them you love me
when you hate me?
freddie, please
when you hate me
freddie, please
when you hate me
freddie, please
Websites
DerekWebb.com email #1 links to SSyndrome.info which has two links to two movies embedded at coordinates
419,75,433,221 and 106,75,122,221
Movie 1 “The End”
Movie 2 “Simple”
There is Morse code in the videos “Simple” says “6 PM, GPS TO FOLLOW” “The End” says “BNA 07/03/09″
Theories: I’m assuming GPS coordinates will come at 6 PM in “The End” BNA could be the airport code for the Nashville International Airport and the date 07/03/09 could be a plane arriving or departing. Perhaps the beginning of a music tour.
Less probable theory, the coordinates in the HTML could be converted to GPS coordinates +10.675122 +41.975433
The main website for clues to find artifacts is ParadiseIsAParkingLot.com, you can download any artifacts that have been found and you can click on the RSS button and get access to several other videos and pdf’s
Wikipedia Article Stockholme Syndrome
The names of the .wav files from ParadiseIsAParkingLot.com are all taken from the wikipedia article on Patty Hearst someone put them into a spreadsheet over here.
http://www.derekwebb.com/ssyndrome.php (or click the ellipses at the bottom of the page) and enter them in order followed by “Kickdrum” you see a picture of derek webb with a black eye and written on the picture is the link to…
www.Black-Eye.me
Asks what time is it? Enter the answer “youneverknow” and you get another video with a snippet of a song “Black eye, *garbled something* through a keyhole at my lover”
DerekWebb.net has a few posts about this as well and pictures of a found artifact.
Free Songs
Paste Magazine is having a “Save Paste” campaign and if you donate money you can download a bunch of free songs, one of which is called “Heaven Pre-Mix” and is from the new Stockholm Syndrom Album by Derek Webb.
Lyrics to Heaven
I was killed in a shopping cart.
Turned upside down and left for dead
I saw a clown try to speak to me
As I floated over him.
I found my way to a familiar place
I swear I’ve been some time before
I would have thought it was the marketplace
But I could not find the door
Oh I have been to heaven
And I have walked the streets
Cause I couldn’t find the hand to hold
To keep me on my feet
So paradise is a parking lot
A spot up front is your reward
All the rest walk down streets of gold
To the house they could afford
I got lost in swelling crowd
And I could not afford to eat
You only have what you came in with
So I’m living on the street
Oh I have been to heaven
And I found no relief
Cause I couldn’t find the hand to hold
To keep me on my feet
I heard Jesus Christ was there
He had a car that’s bulletproof
That way everyone is safe
From the man who tells the truth
Oh I have been to heaven
And I have walked the streets
But I couldn’t find a hand to hold
To keep me on my feet
I couldn’t find a hand to hold
To keep me on my feet
Relevant Magazine posted an article saying
Sure, color us jaded, but the whole “controversy” Derek Webb is “having” with his “label” seemed a little fishy to us. And, it turns out the masses are being duped.
If you take the three words in quotes “Controversy” “having” and label” then go to http://www.derekwebb.com/r_eal.php and enter them in order you can download the mp3 for the song “Spirit Pre-Mix”
Lyrics to Spirit
Like sex without love
Like peace without the dove
Like a crime scene without the blood
I don’t want the spirit; you know I want a kickdrum
I don’t want the son; I want a jury of peers
I don’t want the son; I want a jury of peers
Stares go low when you see my tears
I don’t want the son; I want a jury of peers
Like lies without the truth
Like wine without the food
Like a skydive without the chute
I don’t want the son; you know I want a jury of peers
I don’t want the spirit; you know I want a kickdrum
I don’t want the father; want a vending machine
I don’t want the father; want a vending machine
I know, what’s your point if you know what I mean
I don’t want the father; want a vending machine
Like heaven without gates
Like hell without flames
Like life without pain
I don’t want the father; you know I want a vending machine
I don’t want the son; you know I want a jury of peers
I don’t want the spirit; you know I want a kickdrum
Controversy Ideas
Derek Webb apparently owns the domain www.GiveAShit.org and according to this blog is planning a campaign to dig latrines in Africa
Article in SoJo Magazine
“The twin towers fall every day in Africa for lack of clean drinking water—7,500 or 8,000 people dying every day and the church does not appear to give a shit,” said Webb, echoing evangelist Tony Campolo’s provocative challenge to churches.
Patrol Magazine has this to say (
Apparently most of the controversy surrounds one song, the most important on his most important record, he says. Given the name of his new charity/activism website (not active yet), it’s reasonable to guess that it might be the first Christian song ever to feature the s-word. (Update, May 14: We have confirmed, via someone who has heard the song, that it deals with Christian treatment of gay people, and, sure enough, includes the word “shit.”)
This patrol Mag article has a huge comment thread with info in it.
Personally I think it’s Derek Webb doing some crazy cool experimental marketing and perhaps there is a little controversy as well, who knows. All I know is I’ll keep following this story and I can’t wait for the complete album.
That’s all I have for now, if you find anything else out post a comment
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