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Andres

Sawdust in a Sandpaper Suit

About Me

Just looking for like-minded folk to trade some music and stories with, shoot the shit with and discuss the virtues of Audiophilia with. Chingon. I cant stop obsessively watching Twin Peaks, either. MySpace Layouts MySpace Codes MySpace Backgrounds

My Interests

Music, Literature, Skateboarding, Film, Misanthropy, Knowledge, Friends, Travel, Chile, Coffee Get Your Own Player!

I'd like to meet:

anyone who knows with their first breath in the morning the song they will start the day with. oh and Special Agent Dale Cooper.

Music:

Punk Rawk, Ska, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Electronica, Classic Rock, Salsa, Blues, Jazz, Latin, Bad Religion, Mars Volta, Coheed and Cambria, The Clash, Johnny Cash, Murder City Devils, Operation Ivy, Minor Threat, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Gogol Bordello, Aphrodesia, Antibalas, Manu Chao, Ozomatli, Inti-Illimani, Seven Seconds, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Depeche Mode, Tom Waits, Jolie Holland, Danger Doom, Nirvana, Bobby Bland, Otis, Miles, Elvis, Los Amigos Invisibles, Angelo Badalamente, Os Mutantes, Los Prisioneros, Radiohead, Youngblood Brass Band, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, The Animals, Hector Lavoe, Willie Colon, Citizen Cope, Pennywise, Galactic, Gang of Four, JB's, DJ Shadow, Tosca, Babyshambles, The Libertines, Gomez, Elliot Smith, The Roots, Tool, Guns n Fuckin Roses, Iron Maiden, The Bad Plus, Silvio Rodriguez, Victor Jara, Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Fugazi, White Stripes, RJD2, Professor Longhair, Daniel Johnston, Robert Johnson, Mission of Burma, Pulp, Oasis, Joao Gilberto, Bebel Gilberto, Fermin Muguruza, Black Keys, Smashing Pumpkins, Mclusky, Crass, Cypress Hill, The Fugees, A Tribe Called Quest, System of a Down, Slayer, Dimmu Borgir, Opeth, Sinatra, Tony Bennet, Hellacopters, Decemberists, Joy Division, New Order, Descendents, Adolescents, Gorilla Biscuits, U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Michael Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Bad Brains, The Smiths, John Coltrane, Thelonius, Black Star, Dead Milkmen, Drive-by Truckers, Junkyard Dogs, Filthy Thieving Bastards, T. Rex, The Cars, The Fun Boy Three, The Specials, The Selecter, Ween, Beck, CIV, Leonard Cohen, The Refused, Herbie Hancock, Hole, Pixies, Tears For Fears, Duran Duran, Dungen, Screeching Weasel, OKGO, NWA, Oscar Peterson, Greg Graffin, Sigur Ros, Pharcyde, Circle Jerks, Social D, Tiger Army, King Chango, Ella, Nina, Billie, Armstrong, Horace Silver, Wu-Tang, Sage Francis, Madonna, Ojos de Brujo, Europe, Loverboy, Boston, Black Sabbath, Television, Franz Ferdinand, Gothic Archies, Cat Stvens, Cream, Her Space Holiday, !!!, Grandpa Boy, Greenhornes, Fucking Rachmaninov...

Movies:

Il Postino, Lost Highway, Natural Born Killers, Cinema Paradiso, A Clockwork Orange, The Usual Suspects, Casino, Amelie, Fargo, Fear and Loathing, The Machinist, Whiskey on a Sunday, Machuca

Television:

Simpsons, Jeopardy, Twin Peaks, X-Files

Books:

100 Years of Solitude, The Fountainhead, 1984, Brave New World, Fear and Loathing, Lolita, Story of O, anything by Neruda but especially Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada, Candide, Love in the Time of Cholera

Heroes:

Salvador Allende, my parents, Che, Victor Jara, Greg Graffin of Bad Religion, Joe Strummer, Elvis, Salvador Dali, Don Quixote, Howard Roark

My Blog

Catharsis

Wow it's been a while, hasnt it?  I guess I've been commiting my drivel to paper (remember that?) rather than blogging here. I never really used to see what the huge fuss was about Dylan, even th...
Posted by Andres on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:59:00 PST

15 cold ass songs

I always forget how much I despise winter until suddenly its 9 degrees outside with the whole season to look forward to. At least in Colorado there were mountains to marvel at, here theres just urban ...
Posted by Andres on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:17:00 PST

Nothin lasts forever, even cold November Rain...

When I was 10years old, at the end of the summer of 1991 I moved to Colorado from Bloomington Indiana. I guess in retrospect it should have been more traumatic than it was but I had Guns n Fuckin Rose...
Posted by Andres on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:01:00 PST

ps

thats Artist/Title/Album btw   lotsa love   Dres
Posted by Andres on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 08:47:00 PST

top 60

So, its been too long I guess. Here's whats givin me a rouse these days... 1. Notwist - Transistor 2 (Live) - Transistor 2. Tapes N' Tapes - Insistor - The Loon 3. Fiona Apple - O' Sailor - Extraordin...
Posted by Andres on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 08:46:00 PST

LFC

When I was 16 I went to Chile to visit my family for the third time. It was the first time I had ever travelled there with a skateboard, and also the first time that the road in front of my aunt's hou...
Posted by Andres on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:44:00 PST

Airport love

Im not a big fan of this week, generally speaking. I bounced to and fro between fits of crippling depression and unwarranted headaches, topped off by a visit from my other "Parents". Nothing like sitt...
Posted by Andres on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:46:00 PST

Golden Shower of Hits!

I forgot what a great album The Bends is. Especially when it sounds like he says "My baby's got depends..." on Track 2, ha ha, Thom Yorkes girl is incontinent. Wait thats not funny....unless, you know...
Posted by Andres on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:56:00 PST

Flippant Saturday Top Ten in no particular order of course....

1. Radiohead - Where I End and You Begin 2. Decemberists - The Crane Wife (all of it, sorry) 3. Beck - Dark Star 4. The Clash - English Civil War 5. The Mars Volta - Tetragrammatron 6. Mastodon - The ...
Posted by Andres on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:42:00 PST

I always thought it was about INXS lead singer...

Goddamn sometimes I just cant believe what a fucking poser I am. I've always been a huge Clash fan, as is any self-respecting punk rock kid of the last 20 years or so.  I've rocked Clash patches ...
Posted by Andres on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:19:00 PST