Boston Red Sox. Broadway Show League. Chasing pigeons.
Music
The Beatles, Tom Waits, Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash, Iggy Pop, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, John Prine, Roy Orbison, Kate Bush, Sinead O'Connor, Parliament Funkadelic, Curtis Mayfield, Sly and the Family Stone, Neil Young, Van Morrison, David Bowie, U2, Jonathan Richman, Wildman Fisher, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Big Joe Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Captain Beefheart, Louis Jordan, Slim Gaillard, The Who, Gram Parsons, Leonard Cohen, Carmina Burana, Leisure Class.
Movies
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Grapes of Wrath, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Laughton), Raging Bull, 8 1/2, Wings of Desire, East of Eden, Gods and Monsters, Ed Wood, Godfather I and II, Dracula and Bram Stoker's Dracula, Bride of Frankenstein, A Night at the Opera, The Bank Dick, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Blazing Saddles, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Thin Man, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, The Right Stuff, Lolita, Prick Up Your Ears, Hair, Help!, The Road Warrior, Down by Law, Born Into This, Quills, Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau), Roshomon, The Entertainer, The Misfits, The Man Who Would be King, The Maltese Falcon, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, It's a Wonderful Life, Field of Dreams, To Kill a Mockingbird, On the Waterfront. . .
Television
Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp. Major Mudd, Batman, Bugs Bunny, Bullwinkle and Rocky, The Banana Splits, Dark Shadows, The Kopy Cats, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, The Delphi Bureau, Baretta, The Odd Couple, Sanford and Son, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Twin Peaks, The X-Files, Millenium, American Gothic, Blackadder, The Young Ones, Absolutely Fabulous, Mrs. Mouth, Ken Burns docs and American Experience on PBS, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, The Soup/Talk Soup, Unsolved Mysteries, Cops, America's Most Wanted, anything hosted by Bill Kurtis, Baseball Tonight.
Books
A Confederacy of Dunces, Seymour:An Introduction, Burr and Julian (both Gore Vidal),Rule of the Bone (by Russell Banks), The Cider House Rules, Lord Malquist and Mister Moon, Dracula, The Grapes of Wrath, Great Expectations, Chekhov's short stories, Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Confessions of an Irish Rebel, Ragtime, Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane, The Dharma Bums, Post Office, Guilty of Everything, Paul Revere's Ride, Devil in the White City,Summer of '49, Letters to a Young Poet, Notes on a Cowardly Lion.
Heroes
Jesus Christ, Wm Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, John Lennon, Chas Bukowski, Howard Stern, Anton Chekhov, EA Poe, WB Yeats, RM Rilke, Dylan Thomas, Nathnl Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, Ginsberg Kerouac Burroughs Huncke Corso Snyder Matz Wieners, JD Salinger, Lenny Bruce, Gore Vidal, Philip Larkin, ee cummings, H.D., G. Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, Bert Brecht, Tom Stoppard, Joe Orton, Steven Sondheim, Teddy Roosevelt, James Dean, Bobby deNiro, Meryl Streep, David Rabe, Sam Shepard, Brendan Behan, Bill Kurtis, Bernie Carbo, Sun Ra, The Silver Surfer.
David Lawton's Details
Status:
Single
Orientation:
Straight
Zodiac Sign:
Capricorn
David Lawton's Schools
Boston University
Boston,MA
Graduated: 1982
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Theatre Performance
1978 to 1982
Woburn High
Woburn,MA
Graduated: 1978
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
1975 to 1978
David Lawton's Companies
Basse Productions New York City, US
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David Lawton recommends that you be dazzled. Posted at 3:48 AM Nov 3 view more
". . .he ranted it, rapped it, declaimed it, crooned it. . .in the old bardic tradition - bringing us news from faraway places sung by a minstrel in cargo pants." - Gregory Gibson, author of Hubert's Freaks.
DAVID LAWTON is a performer and writer who synthesizes his experiences in theatre, downtown rock and roll, and suburban ennui through the art of poetry. It has been his honor to share the stage with counterculture icon John Sinclair in the inaugural performance at the Yippie Museum Cafe, to participate in the past three Alternative New Year's Day marathon readings at the Bowery Poetry Club, and, in January 2009, to serve both as a performer and co-producer of Downtown Does Huncke for His Birthday, an evening of stories by beat godfather Herbert Huncke which also featured Tatum O'Neal, Thurston Moore, Patti Smith and fellow co-producer Dimitri Mobengo Mugianis at Bowery Electric. Among his recent features are Cornelia Street Cafe, Saturn Series, the Central Park Bandshell and the Shout Out at Otto's, as well as venues in Brooklyn, Boston, New Jersey and his hometown of Woburn MA. He has been published in Stained Sheets, Erato, Nomad's Choir, and CLWN WR in print, and his poem Johnny Cash appears in the Americana anthology Appleseeds currently available from Sacred Fools Press.
After graduating from the theatre program at Boston University, Mr. Lawton was a guest artist in the graduate playwrighting classes taught there by Nobel laureate (in poetry) Derek Walcott. As an actor, he has appeared Off-Broadway in Aven'U Boys and the infamous Lincoln Center workshop of Goose and Tom Tom with Sean Penn and Madonna. He also can be seen in the movie Naked in New York. In the late eighties and early nineties, David was a background vocalist for the underground band Leisure Class. Through his association with the band and their de facto headquarters in the Chelsea Hotel, he met many poets and associates of the beat movement. He was proud to provide a clean urine sample for his friend, beat luminary Herbert Huncke, and less proud to clean up the melted ice cream spilled by Johnny Thunders when he knocked over a table at a party a week before he OD'd. He looks forward to more experiences with outsider art and artists, as well as writing memory pieces about his suburban Boston Irish Catholic past. He loves performing and hopes to perform for you soon
David! Thanks SO much for the well wishes... I hope all is going well in your world and I look forward to checking out your poetry and works after this is all over! BOY it's been a haul!! xoxoxoxo
"Ticklin' The Strings" by Sweet Hollywaiians
Amazing Japanese hot string band playing 1920's, 30's, 40's style hawaiian, swing, calypso, blues, italian music and originals,featuring vintage instruments.3 songs with Robert Armstrong and Tony Marcus(from Robert Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders)
"The Sweet Hollywaiians have probably the best feel for this 20's music of any string band working today. They manage the rare feat of sounding relaxed even when their playing is hot, are top notch musicians with tasteful arrangements and a full, rich, warm sound.Plus, they have a nice gamut of tunes, from King Nawahi to Giovanni Vicari to Bobby Leecan. See them live, if you can, for an unforgettable experience. If you can't, buy their Cds!" ~ Terry Zwigoff
Hahahaha! No David, no one else said it - you are one of a kind! There was some comment made while the photo was taken - something to the effect "didn't know she could be so flat" hehe.
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