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About Me

Andersen Silva was an original member of the cover band the Hellevators during their short-lived (and unsung) career at Rutgers University in 1987. The southpaw began playing music in earnest in 1991, with two Yamaha keyboards and a right-handed electric guitar strung backwards and played upside-down. In 1992, Andy formed the duo Not An Exit with Jon Wardell; the two continue to work and compose together sporadically.

The idea of recording a full album struck Andy in mid-'99. With his arsenal strengthened by some Macintoshes, a vintage drum machine, a bass, and a true left-handed guitar, he began writing songs for it. Five years later, "Joy in the New" was finished, a CD's worth of tracks fully created and realized by Andersen Silva (except for "Not An Exit," co-written by Jon Wardell).

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/3/2005
Band Website: joyinthenew.com
Band Members: Andersen Silva
Influences: the Beatles, David Bowie, Not An Exit, Talking Heads, Pete Townshend/the Who
Sounds Like: some guy with guitars, a bass, a MIDI controller, a coupla Macintoshes, and some software
Type of Label: None

My Blog

One month with the iPhone

OK. One month (and one day) ago, on June 29th, I stood dutifully in line and purchased my iPhone, playing with and activating it that night. Since then, I've dropped it twice, browsed well over a hun...
Posted by Andersen Silva on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:12:00 PST

Keep the Lines Open

The Federal Communications Commission has launched an inquiry into whether or not to protect 'Net neutrality, and we have until Monday, July 16th to tell those FCCers what we think; I did [see below],...
Posted by Andersen Silva on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:59:00 PST

Not a 'fanboy'

I don't know when the term 'fanboy' came into popular usage, but I prefer to use the old term 'Mac evangelist' to refer to myself. Well, 'Apple evangelist' these days...To me, 'fanboy' implies a pimp...
Posted by Andersen Silva on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:09:00 PST

Stand in the place where you live

Wow, I guess you can consider yourself a musical artist when you're listed at music.com and amazon.com. :-D The things I find when I go browsing...Last week at work was quite the...
Posted by Andersen Silva on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:11:00 PST

Mission accomplished? M'aidez!

Yep, May Day, or Labour Day, again... Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but, uh, your disunitedness!I received a phone call from the issuer of one of my credit cards on Sunday mo...
Posted by Andersen Silva on Tue, 01 May 2007 06:02:00 PST

Beware the lies of March!

Welcome to my Web 2.0. My Web sites (AndersenSilva.com and JoyInTheNew.com) had been getting cluttered and messy lately, so I finally took the time to reverse-engineer a CSS/JavaScript-based dropdown ...
Posted by Andersen Silva on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:14:00 PST

03+04=07

Pamela sent me a CD of Death Cab for Cutie music last week, as well as a copy of the Postal Service's "Give Up." It was a really nice surprise! :) My musical tastes are scattere...
Posted by Andersen Silva on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:47:00 PST

February 1

Another cold one last night; that shot of Goldschläger when I got home from work helped warm me up, though.Despite the recent pain and stiffness in my left forearm, I've been busily selling mysel...
Posted by Andersen Silva on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:07:00 PST

They're singin' "Deck the Halls..."

It's been a busy coupla days, again. I went to New York with Barbara last Tuesday and looked around at all the Christmasy things. Did a little bit of shopping that day, too, then I went on a two-hou...
Posted by Andersen Silva on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 07:14:00 PST

December Morn

Ugh, I'm tired. I dragged myself out of bed around 3:30 AM to assault some data issues that have been plaguing me at work. Pretty sure one of them is resolved now, which is a good thing... I really...
Posted by Andersen Silva on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:00:00 PST