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David Miguel

What d'ya mean I'm funny? Like I amuse you?

About Me

I'm a writer-actor-director. My influences include Marlon Brando, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, Sam Shepard, Tennessee Williams, Orson Welles, Eric Bogosian, James Dean, Robert Duvall, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Francis Ford Coppola, Federico Fellini, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Anthony Quinn, Martin Scorsese, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Terrence Malick, Sean Penn, Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Alec Baldwin, Billy Bob Thornton, Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Thomas Anderson, Elia Kazan, Stella Adler, Joe Eszterhas, Sarah Polley, Johnny Depp, and Jack Kerouac.The best advice I ever got was from Gene Hackman when he told me, "Do theater."

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"David Miguel Estrada is a maverick writer-actor-director."-SHOWBUSINESS WEEKLY

My Interests


zeitgeist part II: 9/11 zeitgeist part III: the federal reserve

I'd like to meet:

This has something to do with what I heard happened at the Comedy Store the other day. A buddy of mine was there and got to see the tail end of this. I didn't know there was a camera there. It's called Joe Rogan vs. Carlos Mencia on YouTube. Probably something you won't see on Comedy Central.

Music:

Dylan, Cash, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, The Killers, SlowTrain, Juliet Echo, The Strokes, Elefant, Tenacious D, Elvis Presley, The Doors, Modest Mouse, The Ramones, System of a Down, Incubus, Chili Peppers, Tom Petty, U2, Daniel Johnston, AudioSlave, Guy Forsythe, The Black Crowes, Mos Def, Kanye West, Weezer, Aimee Mann, The Rolling Stones, KT Tunstall, Death Cab, Alejandro Fernandez, Willie Nelson, and Gunz-N-Roses

Movies:

No Country For Old Men, The Great Debaters, Volver, Apocalypto, The Departed, Black Dahlia, Walk the Line, Mystic River, Adaptation, I *@*$* Huckabees, Mulholland Dr., Lost Highway, Cold Mountain, The Royal Tenenbaums, Waking Life, American Movie, Sling Blade, Celebrity, Deconstructing Harry, Amores Perros, Magnolia, Good Will Hunting, Election, Twelve Monkeys, Forrest Gump, Requiem for a Dream, Enemy of the State, All About My Mother, Shawshank Redemption, Natural Born Killers, Dances With Wolves, JFK, When We Were Kings, Throw Mama From The Train, Get Shorty, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Pulp Fiction, Fargo, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Blood Simple, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Blow Out, Annie Hall, Rocky, Deer Hunter, Raging Bull, Marathon Man, Apocalypse Now, Days of Heaven, Taxi Driver, Five Easy Pieces, The Godfather Part II, Mean Streets, Last Tango in Paris, The Godfather, Chinatown, Badlands, The Conformist, Nashville, Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, Easy Rider, Bonnie and Clyde, Barabba, A Fist Full of Dollars, Dr. Strangelove, 8 1/2, Jules et Jim, The Misfits, Psycho, La Dolce Vita, Spartacus, North by Northwest, Some Like It Hot, Touch of Evil, The Young Lions, The Seventh Seal, Night of the Hunter, Rear Window, On The Waterfront, Sabrina, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Third Man, The Lost Weekend, It's A Wonderful Life, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and It Happened One Night. Oh, I forgot of course, all Andrew McCarthy movies.

Television:

The Sopranos, Crank Yankers, Jon Stewart, David Letterman, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, The Family Guy, Seinfeld, The Dukes of Hazzard, Night Rider, Band of Brothers, Cheers, Saturday Night Live, Three's Company, Welcome Back Kotter, Beevis & Butthead, The Incredible Hulk, Columbo, The Twilight Zone

Books:

East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, 1984, Billy Budd, Bartleby the Scrivener, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, On The Road, The Subterraneans, Keroauc's Book of Dreams, Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The War on Freedom, A Tale of Two Cities, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Plays of Tennessee Williams, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Buried Child, True West, Long Days Journey Into Night, The Iceman Cometh, Death of A Salesman, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolf, Glengarry Glen Ross, Arthur Miller's Autobiography Timebends, Marlon Brando's Autobiography Songs My Mother Taught Me, Roger Corman's Autobiography How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime, Hollywood Animal, Lauren Bacall's Autobiography

Heroes:

Mrs. Colvard who introduced me to T.S. Eliot. "Though I have seen my head brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet and here is no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat and snicker, And in short, I was afraid." -The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

My Blog

Willie Nelson: Twin Towers Were Imploded On 9/11

Willie Nelson: Twin Towers Were Imploded On 9/11Category: News and PoliticsAmerican icon tells Alex Jones Show he questions official storyPaul Joseph WatsonPrison PlanetMonday, February 4th, 2008Strai...
Posted by David Miguel on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:38:00 PST

The New Republic Article on Ron Paul: A Defense

Concerning the article in the New Republic by hack writer James Kirchick...First of all, this writer who happens to look like a cross between Mr. Potato Head and Mr. Peanut, has already had four corre...
Posted by David Miguel on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:59:00 PST

Ron Paul Knocks Out The Competition In South Carolina Debate, Wins Post Debate Poll

Score one for the Gipper!Fox News and Main Stream Media have got to be shaking in their boots right now as Ron Paul WON the post-debate polling.It looks like Sean Hannity is actually tearing...
Posted by David Miguel on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:42:00 PST

Ron Paul on Bill Moyers: Wake Up America

Here is a thought-provoking conversation with Bill Moyers.Among some of the pointed questions posed by Moyers...Q: "How do we get these ideas into the public debate given the tende...
Posted by David Miguel on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:43:00 PST

My Top Ten Ron Paul Clips

Had a few favorite videos about candidate for president, Ron Paul.Here are a few of the Best Ron Paul Videos on the internet.10. tHE aUSTIN tEA pARTY Talk about the tide turning, he's really got a gre...
Posted by David Miguel on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:12:00 PST

GOD, MAN, & STAN in Hollywood's Theatre Row

God, Man, & Stan enjoyed performances on October 18, 19, 20, 21, 26th and 27th. The excellent cast included Lee Grossman, Paul James Grace, Scotty Servis, Phil Hunter, Ira Gold, and Jennifer Deann...
Posted by David Miguel on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:08:00 PST

21st Annual Playwright's Express-100 PLAYS!

It's all over.  Over 100 Plays!  Script in hand, staged readings.  Some of the best playwrights, actors, and directors in the country converged in the past three weeks for the 21st Annu...
Posted by David Miguel on Mon, 21 May 2007 03:31:00 PST

The Simpsons & Presidential Directive NSPD 51 (Shock and Awe but not in that particular order)

">Simpsons on Fox NewsKent Brockman says it like it is when he says, "Friends, the press and the government are in bed together in an embrace so intimate and wrong, they could spoon on a tw...
Posted by David Miguel on Fri, 25 May 2007 12:28:00 PST

Robert Forster at this week's First Stage Hollywood Readingof BUDDHA AND THE DEVIL

Just saw Robert Forster last night in a staged reading with First Stage.  It was an incredible piece, a historical drama set in Nazi Germany.  Forster is one of my favorites considering Medi...
Posted by David Miguel on Sat, 05 May 2007 12:31:00 PST

Staged Reading of Dan Roth's FOLD THE PAGE

Hey Guys,If you are in L.A. this week please come down and see a free staged reading I'm in.  It's Dan Roth's new play FOLD THE PAGE and it's being produced by First Stage Hollywood.Dan is incred...
Posted by David Miguel on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:47:00 PST