Books; Music; Writing; Cooking; Opera; Theater, String Theory; British History; Edison Recording Cylinders; sexy guys; old movies; eating out; learning French; travel to Europe; Chocolate; Red Wine; Baking; Ice Cream; Boston Terriers; Pastisse; Hedgehogs.
Music
Several thousand CDs: lots of Opera! plus various LPs, 78s, and wax cylinders. Also lots of Musical Theater, Classical, Met Opera Broadcasts; even "Eddie Smith" records. 1970's French Pop; Unusual fondness for little-known operas and foreign cast albums.
COMPOSERS:
Wagner, Puccini, Strauss, Verdi, Janacek, Korngold, Zandonai, Donizetti, Beatles, Sondheim, Adam Guettel, William Finn, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, Max Steiner, Victor Herbert.
FAVORITE OPERAS: Meistersinger, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Turandot, Der Rosenkavalier, Aida, Don Carlos, Roberto Devereux, Light in the Piazza, Caroline or Change.
FAVORITE PERFORMERS:
Cass Elliot, Karen Carpenter, Helen Reddy, (young) Michael Jackson, Beatles, Barbara Cook, Diana Montague, Wet Spots, Amelita Galli-Curci.
Movies
Lots of Foreign films; early silent stuff; others include: Lawrence of Arabia; Casablanca; Shortbus; Europa,Europa; Planet of the Apes (orig); Triplets of Belleville; Far From Heaven; Can't Stop the Music; Studio Ghibli films; Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (orig); Maurice; Room with a View, Bringing Up Baby; Singing in the Rain; King Kong; Gods and Monsters; Blue Velvet; All About Eve, Fanny and Alexander; I, Claudius; LOTR; Birds; North by Northwest; Errol Flynn; Bette Davis; Myrna Loy; Submarine movies; Space movies; much else, too.
Television
I, Claudius; Jewel in the Crown; Star Trek DS9; Firefly; Lost in Space; Nova; Pufnstuf; That Girl
Books
Lots of Gay fiction; kid's books; AGE OF BRONZE, MAWRDEW CZGOWCHWZ, QUEER STREET, ELEGANT UNIVERSE, Augusten Burroughs, David Sedaris, François-René de Chateaubriand; Eric Shanower, Armistead Maupin; Eloise Jarvis McGraw; Felice Picano, Robert Rodi, Edward Einhorn, Ethan Mordden, Julia Child, Jordan Crane, The "Miss Minerva" books of Emma Speed Sampson, L. Frank Baum and Oz books, books on music, opera, theater.
About me:
Hi - my name is David. If you're looking for an over-educated, left-of-center, artistic, self-employed, highly-amusing, 44 year-old Gay guy, well, you found me! Yay!
I've been on mySpace for almost two years. I've been trying to post semi-intelligent blogs where I couch my pessemistic nature with cheap references to sex and the occasional humorous comment. I also like to pepper my blogs with old movie and opera references. But don't be scared away by that--they're mostly subliminal.
My earlier blogs are in the BLOG ARCHIVE which can be accessed from the View All Blog Entries link and then clicking on "Older" on the bottom left column.
A little about me: I was born in Texas, grew up in Albuquerque, and I have lived for extended periods of my life in Minneapolis, New Haven, and New York City. I've lived in San Diego since 1997.
I love to cook, I own WAY too many books; and I have a passion for opera and musical theater and collect very old records. In 2003 I produced a 2-CD set of old recordings from the 1903 Broadway Wizard of Oz Musical which earned me a GRAMMY AWARD nomination. I've just started French lessons--the language, not the kissing. I'm already good at the kissing.
I own and run a small publishing company called Hungry Tiger Press which publishes kid's books and CDs. My darling little company is a one-man operation so I am the lead graphic designer, copy writer, editor, typist, flunkie, and warehouse boy.
Before that I was in the theater. First as a Stage Manager and then for about ten years as a Scenic Designer. My design work has been mostly on the east coast. Though I did just finish work as Production Designer on a feature film to be released in 2008.
My BF Eric, and I, have a Boston terrier named "Road." See Pics
Who I'd like to meet:
Intelligent and creative people who'd like to talk, meet for coffee, discuss life, art, music, and the sad state of the world, watch DVDs, play old records, go to the beach, to the opera, to movies, go out to eat, hang-out, walk dogs, bake cookies, go camping, eat cookies, work-out, go to the beach, etc.
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