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About Me

I am the son of a Dream Poet and synchronicity is my travelling companion.
I host a radio show called Radio8Ball on KAOS 89.3 FM. It's a call-in divination show where questions are answered by picking songs at random. There is also a live version of The Radio8Ball Show which is presented monthly at The Capitol Hill Arts Center in Seattle and for limited engagements in cities around the world.
I write songs and act in films. I've acted in numerous feature films and can honestly say that every single one has had a powerful effect on my life. The roles seem to pick me. I've developed what I call a shamanic attitude toward the acting craft and this makes for some very interesting adventures in the vicinity of rolling cameras and theatrical stages. My songwriting has also led me into many interesting situations and opportunities to grow and learn. Whether it was writing and performing with my band The Previous, or collaborating with friends like Andy Dick, Willie Wisely, Lisa Jenio, R. Walt Vincent, Shmushkin & Scott Taylor the muse has treated me very well. One of my favorite current musical projects is My Brave Face, the Costello/McCartney tribute band that I perform in with Scott Taylor. You can find out more about this by clicking the My Brave Face link in the top friends below and for more information about my own music check out the PREVIOUS MUSIC link.
I am currently writing a column called Manwich about the emerging new masculine archetype for Daniel Pinchbeck's magazine REALITY SANDWICH. So far each of these articles has been accompanied by a song which I have written and which is performed by my good friend Andy Shmushkin. For more info on Shmushkin and Reality Sandwich check the links in the top friends below.
My other business activities include working for IndiEclectic.com, a great new online music company as well as offering personal assistant work to healing artists. I have experience booking tours for singer-songwriters like Shmushkin, Willie Wisely, Bart Davenport, Sandman, Anya Marina, Chris Chandler, Stephan Smith, Randy Kaplan, Bob Wiseman & Jim's Big Ego.
If you want to find out more about my music or the films I've acted in you can visit my website: http://www.andrasjones.com. It's kinda out of date. One of these days I'll get to it.

My Interests

Synchronicity, pop ghetto music, the history of film, mind-expanding activities, sacred sexuality, justice, honor among men. Contradicting oppression. Reveling in inspiration.

I'd like to meet:

People who laugh easily and are so cool that they aren't afraid to look uncool. Ugly ducklings all grown up. Mystics. Revolutionaries. Fans of indie-pop. No jealous lovers. No war mongers.

Music:

Cole Porter, They Might Be Giants, Jon Brion, Dan Bern, Sandman, The Mona Reels, Bart Davenport, Ira Marlowe, Candypants, Willie Wisely, Daniel MacKenzie, Anya Marina, Gregory Page, Vic Masters, Carolyn Wonderland, Daniel Carlson, Randy Kaplan, Pete Cassani, Eric Saulnier, James O'Brien, Jim Infantino, Bob Wiseman, Dan Bryk, Sarah Hamer, Ford Pier, Veda Hille, Geoff Berner, Bob Kemmis, Kinnie Starr, Frank Sinatra (w/N.Riddle 55-59)Ralph Covert, Mose Allison, John/Paul, Brian Wilson, Billy Bragg, Chris Chandler, Josh Clayton-Felt, Elvis Costello, Jellyfish, Rickie Lee Jones, The Kinks, Mary Lou Lord, Nick Lowe, Maxfield Rabbit, Mirah, The Noses, Danny Peck, Neutral Milk Hotel, Ookla the Mok, Paul Simon, Jill Sobule, Spearhead, James Taylor, Pete Townshend, Billy Joel, XTC, Stevie Wonder

Movies:

Charlie Kauffman is my favorite current film artist. In order, my favorite films of his are: "Human Nature", "Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind", "Adaptation", "Being John Malkovich" (I don't like "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind")That said, here's my list of films and the people who make them:Orson Welles, John Sayles, Tim Robbins (dir. not actor), Woody Allen, Shirley MacLaine in the 50's and early 60's, Barbara Stanwyck in the 30's and 40's, Charles Laughton, Bogart, Sinatra in the 50's, Oliver Stone's "Nixon", "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls", "Trigger Happy aka Mad Dog Time", "The Big Lebowski", Jeff Bridges, Sterling Hayden, Elizabeth Hurley and Jaqueline Bissett, Warren Beatty, "Sweet Smell of Success", "How To Get Ahead in Advertising", "Three Kings", Nicholson, The Cohen Bros., Terry Gilliam, Polanski, Depp, Jane Fonda (all eras up until Ted Turner), Sergio Leone, "The Bobo", Alec Guiness, James Dean, Billy Wilder, "Wet Hot American Summer" (or is it "Hot Wet American Summer"?), The Anderson Brothers (Wes and PT), young diane Keaton, "Private Lessons", "Winter Kills"

Television:

Black Adder, The Ben Stiller Show, Mr. Show, The Andy Dick Show, Michael Moore's TV Nation, Fawlty Towers, Tenspeed and Brownshoe

Books:

"I Hate the Man Who Runs This Bar" by Eugene Chadbourne, "The Secret Teachings Of All Ages" by Manly P. Hall, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" by Greg Palast, "Rosebud" and "The Biographical Dictionary of Film" by David Thompson, "What Makes Sammy Run?" by Budd Schulberg. "As Time Goes By" by Derek Taylor, "Beyond the Sixth Game" by Peter Gammons. Most books by Vonnegut, Vidal, Denis Johnson, Robert Anton Wilson and Walter Mosely.

Heroes:

I'm still looking.

My Blog

Reality Sandwich - The New Masculine

I've started writing a column for Reality Sandwich, Daniel Pinchbeck's new online magazine. The column explores the new masculine archetype. Check it out at www.realitysandwich.com.
Posted by Andras on Sat, 26 May 2007 04:50:00 PST

PANDORA - Check it out!

Have you heard of Pandora? It's the coolest music site going. You pick a song or an artist that you like and the site makes a station based upon music that shares similar qualities with your selection...
Posted by Andras on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:52:00 PST

Fasting for kicks

Giving up food was nothing compared to losing her. Since Radio8Ball went weekly my life has changed dramatically. That was the week that the Red Sox won the World Series under a full but obscured Oct...
Posted by Andras on Sun, 23 Oct 2005 11:32:00 PST

Meeting people like this

This is where we shop for people. Shop for love. Avid little consumers are we, browsing the aisles of humanity in search of someone whose pic and profile turns us on. The air of possibility hovers aro...
Posted by Andras on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST