GENERAL:
collecting and listening to interesting CD's, videos, and mp3's of great acts (national AND local), seeing great shows, clowns, monkeys (with AND without cymbals), robots, puppets, cabbage, martians, mermaids, cookies, sporks, fembots, 50-foot women, rubber chickens, people who live underwater, drunken brain surgery, overcrowded insane asylums, I LOVE a parade, tasty treats, beaches and pools, tanning all over, cake, pie, thunder and lightning, veritable smorgasbords, British accents, cheese, glitter, goodies, celebrity scoops, midnight snacks, New York City, Boston, the east end of Long Island... =================== DISLIKES: musicians who take me for granted, cell phone pests, celebrity breakups, body hair.
Influences
MUSIC:
The Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Band, The Rolling Stones, The Who, CSN, The Doors, The Kinks, Talking Heads, Steely Dan, KISS, Fleetwood Mac, YES, The Allman Brothers Band, STYX, Blondie, Poco, Heart, Jackson Browne, Elton, B-52's, Little Feat, Nanci Griffith, Renaissance, Rockpile/Nick Lowe/Dave Edmunds, Cheap Trick, The Cars, U2, Aimee Mann, Sarah McLachlan, Laura Nyro, Guitar and Lute ensembles, Les Paul and Mary Ford, "O Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack, Ani, Shawn Colvin, Phish, any and all Jam Bands, Guns 'n' Roses, Liz Phair, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, The Corrs, Wilco, Lilith Fair, The Nields, The Kennedys, The Cucumbers, K.T. Tunstall, Jenny Lewis & THe Watson Twins, Leah Siegel, Rachael Sage, Jenifer Jackson, Katie Sawicki, Emily Zuzik, Linda Draper, The Bowmans, Kirsten Williams, Emily Easterly, Liza and The Wonderwheels, Rebecca Pr.. THREE BEST SONGS IN THE LAST DECADE: "Polyester Bride" by Liz Phair, "Whole New You" by Shawn Colvin, and "We Will Be Together" by Jenifer Jackson =================== BEST NEW SONG OF 2004: "This Time Around" by Emily Zuzik =================== TWO BEST NEW SONGS OF 2005: "Dreamland" by Jenifer Jackson; "Orchids" by The Rebecca Pronsky band =================== TWO BEST NEW SONGS OF 2006: "Robot Maid" by Liza and The Wonderwheels "Diggin' For Gold" by The Bowmans =================== MOVIES: Almost Famous, Terminator 2, The Matrix, Spider-Man, Corky Romano, Airplane, City of Angels, The Silent Movie, Underworld, Catch Me If You Can, Trading Places, Spinal Tap, O Brother Where Art Thou, Lost in Translation, Titanic, Waiting For Guffman, Austin Powers, Big Fish, Best In Show, Rosetta (French), The Man Without A Past (Finnish), Secrets and Lies (English), The Truman Show, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pump Up The Volume, American Beauty, Daredevil, Shakespeare In Love, Frequency, A Mighty Wind, Pirates of the Caribbean, Zoolander, Back to the Future, Risky Business, The X-Men... =================== BEST CHASE SCENE: T2; the pursuit from the Galleria Mall to the water duct... ===================BEST FIGHT SCENE: The Matrix; Neo and Agent Smith on the subway platform. RUNNERS-UP: The X-Men; Wolverine and Sabretooth on the top of the Statue Of Liberty. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; the treetop scene... =================== FUNNIEST FIGHT SCENE: Big Night, Raising Arizona, and Bridget Jones' Diary; three-way tie for being churlish, buffoonish, and utterly hysterical! =================== THREE FUNNIEST MOVIES EVER: the Silent Movie, Airplane, and Corky Romano =================== SEXIEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME!: Barbarella =================== BEST MOVIE KISS: so many, where do I start? True Lies; with the distant nukular bomb exploding in the background, Titanic; "Jack, I'm flying", The Matrix; with the shower of sparks in the background, A Mighty Wind; Mitch and Mickey, Spider-Man; soon to be a classic - Upside Down! In The Rain! From Here to Eternity; Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in a rendezvous in a Hawaiin cove with the crashing of the waves ... =================== TWO FAVORITE TWO-DIMENSIONAL KISSES: Times Square 1945, Gustav Klimt =================== BEST MYSPACE PIC: Natalie Gelman - rollerwheels!!! jumbo guitar!!! http://www.myspace.com/nataliegelman ===================TELEVISION:
Late Show with David Letterman, X-Files, Friends, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Regis Philbin, Music Choice, Star Trek (ONLY the original, no crummy knock-offs), Date My Mom, VH1Classic, The Real Gilligan's Island, The Game Show Network, Austin City Limits, Parental Control, Seinfeld, Unplugged, Next, BBC-America, Mountain Stage, The Girls Next Door, Behind The Music... =================== BOOKS:
"Hammer of the Gods", "No One Here Gets Out Alive", Rhyming Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, The Dictionary, The Holy Bible (any gender-free version - i.e. not too male-oriented), The World Almanac, "The Beatles Recording Sessions" by Mark Lewisohn, "X Ray" by Ray Davies, "Leading With My Chin" by Jay Leno, Deadbase, "Hit Men" by Frederic Dannen, "I'm With The Band" by Pamela Des Barres, "The Island at the Center of the World" by Russell Shorto, "Roosevelt Island" by Judith Berdy, "The Historical Atlas of New York City" by Eric Homberger, "Unearthing Gotham" (about the archaeology of New York City) by Diana Wall, "Madison Square" by Miriam Berman, "Rudy Giuliani: Emperor Of The City" by Andrew Kirtzman, "A Century On Wall Street", "It Happened In New York" by Fran Capo, "Stanford White's New York" by David Garrard Lowe, "It Happened on Washington Square" by Emily Kies Folpe, "The Empire State Building" by Theodore James Jr., "Naming New York" by Sanna Feirstein (about street names), "The Battle For New York" by Barnet Schecter, "Once Upon A Time In New York" (about Mayor Jimmy Walker), "Staten Island" by Margaret Lundrigan and Tova Navarra, "Fifth Avenue, The Best Address" by Jerry E. Patterson, "Down 42nd Street" by Marc Eliot, "Mrs. Astor's New York" by Eric Homberger, "Great Fortune" by Daniel Okrent (about Rockefeller Center), "New York in the Nineteenth Century" by John Grafton, "Gramercy" by Andrew Scott Dolkart, "New York Year-By-Year" by Jeffrey Kroessler, The Firefighter's Guide To Old New York, nice big color travel picture books, any Dover book featuring New York City... =================== Right now I'm reading "The Other Islands Of New York" by Sharon Seitz and Stuart Miller and it's a-MAZING! =================== I've been a subscriber to Rolling Stone magazine since 1987 (I still have every issue, I'm going to have to e-bay these things off) I also subscribed to SPIN magazine until Jerry died in 1995. That week, every magazine put him on the cover. Spin featured Rancid! So i stopped my payments to Spin and haven't picked one up since. Up until recently, I've also regularly read Billboard magazine for about a decade... =================== HEROES:
Jack Travens from "Speed", Neo, Fox Mulder, Captain Kirk, Wolverine, Ah-nold from "T2", Bono in '87 (long hair)... =================== FAVORITE VILLIANS:
Agent Smith, the T-1000 from "T2", Alex Krychek from "The X-Files", Mugatu, Major Konig from "Enemy at the Gates" (Ed Harris), Newman, The guy from "True Lies", Buford Tannen, The Hamburglar, Kraven from "Underworld", The Bearded Mr. Spock from the parallel dimension, Dr. Evil, The Drew Blood, ...
Sounds Like
Dave Space's Details
STATUS: Single =================== ORIENTATION: Straight
HOMETOWN: New York City =================== BODY TYPE: 5' 9" / Athletic =================== ETHNICITY: White =================== SMOKE / DRINK: No, smoking's bad for you / No =================== EDUCATION: College / professional school
ABOUT ME:
================================================ MY RECORD is available at http://cdbaby.com/cd/dave ================================================
I LOVE CATS and I had volunteered several days a week at a no-kill cat rescue group for many years; http://www.kittykind.org/ I'd been part of a foster program where I'd take home strays waiting for adoption, I'd hosted Lloyd, Buster (b & w), Tiger, Forrest, Buster (orange), Candy, Abbey, Cinders, Misu, Olive, Maia, Naomi, Julie, Posey, Nina, Nikki, Quimby, Verona, Sable, Willow, Derby, Coko, Billie, Helen, Tibbits, Jaffee, Ava, Celeste, Marilyn, Guinevere, Jenna, Dorrie, Miranda, Bianca, Romeo, Boodha Boy, Tessa, and Mickey D. ================================================
I PLAY my songs at many venues such as The Sidewalk Cafe, The C-Note, Tobacco Road, D.T.U.T, Bar-B, Downtime, Radio Perfecto, Nightingale's, The Post Crypt Coffeehouse, Earth Matters, The Baggot Inn, Caff Sha Sha, BMW, Rubyfruit, Micky's Blue Room, Newgate Bar & Grill, The Orange Bear, The Gaslight, The Raven, Pianos, The Alphabet Lounge, Finally Fred's, The Sanctuary, The Paradise Caf, The 12 Bar (London England), The Charleston (Brooklyn), The Life Caf 389 (Brooklyn), The Real McCoy (Staten Island), Value Books (Astoria, Queens), The Turning Point (Piermont), The Acoustic Caf (near Bridgeport, CT), The Budgiedome at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival http://budgiedome.org/ , The Mozart Caf (Mamaroneck), an awesome house concert in Burlington, VT and the Burlington Coffeehouse and the Manhattan Pizza & Pub also in Vermont. I've also been played on Radio Crystal Blue - an internet radio station. ================================================
WHO I'D LIKE TO MEET:
Diana Rigg (Emma Peel), Justine Bateman, Lauren Graham (NOT Heather Graham), Linda Fiorentino, EVERYBODY from "Shipwrecked" (especially Katy), Anna Nalick, Maryann (from "Gilligan's Island" - and NOT Ginger), The entire cast of "Charmed", Erin E-surance, Scarlett Johanssen, any of the Corrs, Kate Beckinsale (especially in "Underworld"), Zooey Deschanel, Sara Evans (country star), Posh Spice, Maria Mango, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Somebody-or-other from "Desperate Housewives" (never did watch that show), Susanna Hoffs, Rachael Ray, Martians because they have one breast in the back (for slow dancing), that counter girl in a fast food restaurant somewhere between Eagle and Anchorage... ================================================
I DON'T DESIRE TO MEET: Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, Melanie Griffith, Charlize Theron, Gisele Bundchen, Reese Witherspoon, Melania Knauss, Sigourney Weaver, Jessica Simpson, Daryl Hannah, Catherine Zeta-Jones, J.-Lo, Denise Richards, Elizabeth Hurley, Gwinnie, Lisa Kudrow, ALL SUPERMODELS, ALL SMOKERS =============================================
JURY'S OUT: Minnie Driver, Jennifer Aniston, Sandra Bullock, Ginger Spice, Kate Hudson, Gillian Anderson, Eliza Dushku, Liv Tyler, Denise Rich, Kate Winslet, Fran Drescher, Selma Blair, Christina Ricci, Kirsten Dunst... ================================================ GUYS I DON'T DESIRE TO MEET: Sly Stallone, Fabio, Stephen Seagal, Satan, all Mermen, ALL SPORTS FIGURES, EVERYBODY ELSE...
Dave Space!!!!!! Hello from me! I really like "What's on her mind"...nice colors of sound there. You know Conan O'Brian is just nuts...love him..."piss my pants" funny! whoops!
I think you are the coolest person for coming down to Fat Baby last night, and supporting everyone's music. Thank you soooo much!!!
I am so digging your tunes. Morning Mist is sooo pretty. The vocals almost give it a Radiohead feel. Very cool! So sweet. Keep me posted of your gigs and I'll come check ya out.
A very happy birthday to you with love from ROCKDOVE!!! Thanks for being such a devoted music lover - you are the best. Wish there were a million like you, but you're one of a kind!
Thankyou for introducing me to your "MySpace" and your music... what to say..what to say... I think your great! Keep on hugging the world one kitty at a time.
I'm liking your tunes, and I also share your love for cats. My one and only, Sprint, has her own myspace page, but she hasn't had time to work it much yet.
Nice Songs Dave!!
Thank you so much for the add. Like you, I too am a cat lover. It is wonderful that you are a foster parent for kitties!!
ROCK ON
BronweN.
