Andy Senior
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"RADIOLA! 1920s and 1930s JAZZ and POP"
Male
46 years old
UTICA, NEW YORK
United States
Last Login:7/25/2008
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Andy Senior's Interests
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| General | I am deeply interested in music and literature, as both a consumer and a producer. In addition to hosting my weekly radio program, I have written songs, poems, essays, polemics, and two novels. The first four chapters of my novel FEASIBILITY are now posted for your reading pleasure. Several of my (admittedly subversive) songs are available for download HERE. See also my Carpal Tunnel Kid myspace music page. | | Music | I love early jazz, swing, 20s and 30s pop, classic calypso, and Vaudeville and British Music Hall selections--and play plenty of them on RADIOLA! I also love Gilbert and Sullivan and most 19th century classical music. | | Movies | I dig anything made before the Breen Office tightened the screws. Since then movies have been used as a propaganda tool to create phony morals and manners, and perhaps effects even more sinister. We've been wandering in a state of terminal Cognitive Dissonance forever thanks to the cinematic opiate. Take away the cheesecloth--I want a little more cynicism with my catharsis, thank you! | | Television | I don't watch television. It irritates me and eats up valuable hours of life that I am perfectly capable of squandering without electronic assistance. (TV's also an insidious mind-control tool--see "Movies" above.) I much prefer Internet Radio, which I pipe into every room of my house so that I'm not tied to the computer. I spend too much time on this damn thing as it is. | | Books | In addition to the classics penned by some of my heroes (see below), I read everything by Carl Hiaasen that I can find. Matt Ruff's Sewer, Gas, and Electric is one of the great unsung books of the late 20th century--a conspiracy theorist's family picnic, and funny as hell. Terry Pratchett is great, too. And A Confederacy of Dunces would be one of my desert-island books, of course.
My reading tastes are in flux--whenever I sit down with a book, I doze off. Either I need to sleep more at night, or I could use new glasses. Maybe all my chickens are coming home to roost, big time. Since I don't get up with the chickens, I have no way of knowing. | | Heroes | I'm too old to believe in heroes. We're all humans on this planet. But I do admire the following people for their various sterling qualities:
All investigators who bravely challenge our national Cognitive Constipation, especially with regard to the deceptions of 9/11/01, in the spirit of the kid who said the Emperor was butt naked.
Also, H.L. Mencken, William Schwenck Gilbert, Robert Benchley, James Thurber, George Orwell, Art Tatum, Eddie Lang, Fats Waller, Louis Armstong, Duke Ellington, Dorothy Fields, Sinclair Lewis, Evelyn Waugh, Thomas Edison. |
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Sound Vintage, Bing Crosby, Nostolgia Revival, Some of these days: A Sophie Tucker Tribute, 1920's Music & Beyond, The Roaring 20's, Antique Recordings - Cylinders and 78s, secret hub of the universe
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Andy Senior's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Hometown: | Utica, NY | | Zodiac Sign: | Taurus | | Occupation: | radio host |
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Andy Senior's Networking
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Radio - Talent - DJ
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I host RADIOLA! a unique blend of old jazz and early pop (mostly of 1920s and 1930s vintage) drawn from my own vast midden of recorded media.
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Music - Production - Songwriter
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As The Carpal Tunnel Kid I have been writing and performing quirky and subversive novelty songs since the late 1970s.
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Publishing - Writer - Novelist
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I have a manuscript of a novel, FEASIBILITY, that I would most definitely like to publish. (See link to the first four chapters above.)
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Andy Senior is willing to try again today.
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Andy Senior's Latest Blog Entry
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THE WOOFER AND THE PIPER
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BLOGTALK CENSORS VYZYGOTH!!
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"Now's the time to give your share . . ."
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UTICANS ON VYZYGOTH--THAT’S ALL FOLKS!!
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Return Engagement at Cafe Domenico Oct. 17
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About me:
I host RADIOLA! a program of 20s and 30s jazz and pop guaranteed to wake up the mind and make it smile. RADIOLA! airs Fridays 8-10 PM ET on WHCL-FM and Fridays 2-4 AM PT on CJSF-FM with continuous play archives available on Live365.
The music of the 1920s and 1930s has a lightness and a vitality totally lacking in other musical realms. Also, it could be sophisticated, smart, and funny. It is not the over-processed, demographically-targeted pop of later years. It was all in one take, all on one mike, spontaneous, and totally in the moment. Hence it is still fresh, joyous, and new, even after 75 years.
The program is drawn from my sprawling and unwieldy collection of CDs, LPs, and 78s. You'll hear Satchmo and Bing, but also such neglected greats as Annette Hanshaw, Jabbo Smith, and Joe Robichaux, among dozens of others. I'll try to keep it light and fun, as befits the spirit of the music.
Playlists for each program (and MANY great links to vintage music sites) are available on my RADIOLA! blog.
Here is "Sweet Georgia Brown" from my gig at Cafe Domenico on October 3, 2007:
"Rockin' Chair" from my October 17, 2007 performance:
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Who I'd like to meet:
Other fans of 1920s and 1930s music (such as I play on RADIOLA!) with a view to helping it flourish on the internet, on the radio, and on CD.
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