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Dave

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About Me

Dancing. Theatre. Playing. Travelling. Reading. Watching. Working. Driving. Giving. Taking. Writing. Experiencing. Teaching. Learning. Producing. Directing. Acting. Lighting. Setting. An Article in Swing Dancer Magazine (www.swing-dancer.com, read it in my blog.)

My Interests

Lindy Hop. Charleston. Carolina Shag. Swing Dancing. Theatre. Teaching. The Wanderlust. Writing. Driving. Travelling. Music, Movies, and Books. People watching. YouTube watching. Rollerblading. Assistance. Equestrianism... is that a word? Walking somewhere when driving is quicker. Dancing to music that I enjoy listening to, not just what happens to be playing in the background. Taking photos for the memories, not because I'm trying to win an Ansel Adams contest.

I'd like to meet:

The writers for the Family Guy, Invader Zim, Deadwood, Scrubs, LOST, and The West Wing. Anyone who knows how to dance a good song into the ground. People who inspire leadership, loyalty, or those crazy moments where you feel like you can do anything.View All Friends | View Blog | Add Comment

Music:

Ella and Basie. Dizz and Bird. Satchmo and the Duke. Nina, Billie, Lena, and Dinah. Eva Cassidy, Johnny Cash, Aerosmith, and the ENTIRE score to Quest (you'd have to have been there...). John Mayer, Dave Matthews, Mike Doughty and there is something about Trent Reznor that keeps me coming back. Beach music, Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, and the occasional Tom Waits song. I've heard Portishead, rocked out to G. Love, and almost drove my car into a telephone pole listening to Alice in Chains. I dance to Matt the Electrician even though he's kind of a folkie. I love jazz and swing, dixieland makes me all giddy, and Jack Johnson is my hero. Marvin Gaye was a genius, and I still get a kick out of listening to early 80's dance music - one song at a time. The acoustic cover songs I'll never get sick of.

Movies:

Stardust. The Princess Bride. Blazing Saddles. Love Actually. The Lord of the Rings. The Marx Brothers. The Emperor's New Groove. Ringu. Drunken Master. French Kiss. Chicago Actors. Foreign Directors. Hollywood Endings. Withnail and I.

Television:

Band of Brothers. Invader Zim. House. 24. The West Wing. Daily Show. The Family Guy. Celebrity Poker/ World Series of Poker. Six Feet Under. The X-Files. Coupling. Friends. ER. The Tick. Whose Line is it Anyway? Grey's Anatomy. Scrubs. Lost. Deadwood. A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Books:

Right now... The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. I read sarcasm pretty well too.

Heroes:

All of the Hollywood assistants who get through each day and keep dreaming. All screenwriters who write what moves them, not what moves studio executives. All directors who fight and fight to make the product better. All producers who fight and fight for everyone else. All actors who realize their place in the big picture, and work hard to live up to that place. AND... All parents that encourage their sons and daughters to pursue their dreams.

My Blog

Setting a Standard

As originally posted by Swing Dancer Magazine (www.swing-dancer.com)~~~SETTING A STANDARD: Mixed Events in the U.S.by David GraybillJune 15, 2007 As I have been drafted to state the successes, sho...
Posted by Dave on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:34:00 PST

New York City.

There are moments in everyone's life where they feel pulled to make other choices. Sitting in New York City, and for the first time in a decade, actually feeling the energy of what it is like to actu...
Posted by Dave on Sun, 13 May 2007 10:27:00 PST

I see...

True colors. Everyone eventually will show their true colors, and trying to hide that will only bring about pain and suffering in yourself and those around you. My guess is that is why Hollywood and...
Posted by Dave on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:40:00 PST

Fuck you.

A character immortalized by Edward Norton in 25th Hour and written by David Benioff in a novel of the same name. Montgomery Brogan has a moment of unapologetic clarity. Here is the monologue that etch...
Posted by Dave on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:28:00 PST

In Hell...

FAVORITE HERO...READ THE FOLLOWING AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND:Dr. Schambaugh, of the University of Oklahoma School of Chemical Engineering, Final Exam question for May of 1997. Dr. Schambaugh is known fo...
Posted by Dave on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 05:20:00 PST

No More.

Good evening to all those that actually read my blog.Having been recently made aware of what is possible (read: MySpace can hijack any and all blogs, pictures, stories, scripts, or anything they'd lik...
Posted by Dave on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 02:28:00 PST

Power Shut Off

So they shut off my power tonight.  I'm typing this in the dark, on a laptop, with 30 minutes left on the battery of the computer.  I'm currently stealing the signal from somewhere in my nei...
Posted by Dave on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 06:54:00 PST

Intermission.

Before I continue with the story, you ever have a day that was ruined by a friend yelling at you? I screwed up today.  And I suppose she was justified in her anger, but it still ruined my day. I ...
Posted by Dave on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:49:00 PST

Life Changes.

So I moved to Los Angeles.  Got a job working in photography.  Started dancing more... and shaved my head Marine-corps style. I can't imagine what's next. Oh, and Oakland Ballet folded like ...
Posted by Dave on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:11:00 PST

Stupid shit.

I am going to stop posting stupid -random thought process- blogs.  I'll be back when I actually have something to say. D.
Posted by Dave on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:07:00 PST