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And The Heat Goes On

drejauregui

About Me

Another cute PBS kid turned borderline socialist weirdo...
this is my surly yelp profile.
here you will find articles that I have written about west coast indie rock.
and this is a great little SF zine for which i write...

My Interests

Meetings, gardening, feasts, jogging. Chess. Risk. On-line Scrabble. Less coffee.

I'd like to meet:

You, if you play music. Your band, if you have one. Your friends' bands.

Music:

In complete disorder: The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Fall, Merle Haggard, No Age, Sun Ra, Jimmy Rogers, Pavement, Yo La Tengo, Bob Dylan, BOAT, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Hum, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, Beirut, Thelonious Monk, Polvo, My Bloody Valentine, Port O'Brien, The Velvet Underground, The Clean, The MC5, Sonic Youth, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Clash, Television, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Chuck D., The Magnetic Fields, The Silver Jews, The Who, Birds & Batteries, The Lonely H, Dr. Dre, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh

Movies:

Brazil, Blade Runner, Blood Simple, Little Shop of Horrors (musical version), the Godfather, the Freshman, The Player, Slow Century, Fail Safe, Casablanca, the Killing, Hannah and Her Sisters, Conan the Barbarian, the Big Lebowski, Manhattan, Phantasm 2, Mutual Appreciation (?)

Television:

The Colbert Report, Top Chef, ATHF, The West Wing, Lucha Libre.

Books:

The Savage Detectives, The Fountainhead, Underworld, Black Hole, White Noise, Everything is Illuminated, A Farewell to Arms, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Slaughterhouse Five.

Heroes:

Ben Franklin, Ayn Rand, Roberto Bolano

My Blog

"Thurston fer Moore!"

In the words of some dumbshit drunk who tried to have a conversation with an icon from the balcony in between songs last night. When my sister was in SF two summers ago, we balked at the cha...
Posted by And The Heat Goes On on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:12:00 PST

Halloweenies

I kid. I kid. IF you are in New York this Wednesaday, and IF you consider yourself somewhat if not wholly leftist, and IF you enjoy a not-so-subtle-to-quite-ticklingly-subtle dose of political angst ...
Posted by And The Heat Goes On on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:45:00 PST

Malkmus on Maggies Farm

Courtney, don't take offense. He's only trying. And succeeding. Say what you will about Dylan covers, but Stephen Malkmus's attempt at "Maggie's Farm" resonates with an admiribly shambling fidel...
Posted by And The Heat Goes On on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:28:00 PST

Jens & Jens

As a teenager, sequestered in my room, listening exhaustively to Nirvana and Green Day, I never once thought that in ten years, I'd be revelling publically to the polished sounds of symphonic strings ...
Posted by And The Heat Goes On on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:11:00 PST

Additionally...

I am so excited for Beirut...
Posted by And The Heat Goes On on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:22:00 PST

Labor Day Revisited (Lets Talk about the Weather...)

Or, resurfaced... There's a link to my latest picasa album at the bottom of this posting. What a sunny Labor Day weekend... could use some of that now. Although yesterday, on my weekly walk from the H...
Posted by And The Heat Goes On on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:44:00 PST

It’s Tea Time...

With Joel Gion and The Dilettantes. That's right. The one-man-party from the Brian Jonestown Massacre has his own band, now. Joel's singing sounds a little raw on their recordings, but the music ...
Posted by And The Heat Goes On on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:53:00 PST

Low Red Land / Appomattox / Birds & Batteries / Or, The Whale

A couple items on the agenda this morning: 1.) Thanks to everyone who came out last night. 2.) Panda - you guys are way young. And fucking awesome. Way to totally bring down the house. Have fun at sc...
Posted by And The Heat Goes On on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:47:00 PST

The Morning Benders / The Deadly Syndrome / Panda

Before I begin, I'd like to thank everyone who came out to the show last night. I'd like to thank Sky Pilots and Silian Rail for totally rocking out. I'd like to thank Maserati for the dorky dance wor...
Posted by And The Heat Goes On on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:19:00 PST

Sky Pilots / Silian Rail / Maserati at 12 Galaxies Tonight

For some reason, I crashed at ten thirty last night and woke up around half past two. Then I couldn't fall asleep again until past five this morning. Why? Probably because I'm so fucking excited for t...
Posted by And The Heat Goes On on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:42:00 PST