Movies, books, hot women, cute women, jokes, sarcasm, shouting at actors, the mighty Sainters, plotting world domination, photography
Music
Movies
Top 6 Movies Of All Time:
The Usual Suspects The Shawshank Redemption Casablanca Star Wars: A New Hope The Matrix Singin' In The Rain
This year:
Easy Virtue Dean Spanley
Television
Vengeance Unlimited, Spin City, Entourage, Boston Legal, Scrubs, NCIS, Whose Line Is It Anyway, Heroes, The Amazing Race, Just Shoot Me!
Books
J. R. R. Tolkein - The Hobbit
Bernard Cornwall's Sharpe series (particularly Sharpe's Regiment and Sharpe's Trafalgar)
A.C. Crispin's Han Solo trilogy
John Grisham - The Rainmaker
Dan Abnett's 'Gaunt's Ghosts' series
Naomi Novik - Temeraire
Heroes
None really. Maybe I'll be someone's hero one day (scary thought, I know)
Recently completed BA (Professional Writing), distinction average for film subjects
Coops has something still that will always be his, something he'll take unstained out of this world... his panache Posted at 3:18 PM Jul 25, 2008 view more
About me: Name's David, answer to David, Dave, Coops, Cooper and, when I deserve it, smartass. Over the years I've worked as an umpire, an upholsterer, an exam supervisor and currently as a department store scut monkey.
I just finished a BA (Professional Writing) in 2005 and am now making it up as I go along. I worked the Commonwealth Games in the media pit at Jeff's Shed early 2006, and finally landed a job on a film set after pursuing one since leaving uni. I've been working in the art department on a film, which so far means lifting and cleaning props and lots of digging. Check out the film, Prey, in my top 8 to see why I've been digging.
Ideally in a couple of years I'll be a filmmaker, writing and directing my own material, perhaps producing and 1st A.D.ing other people's work. Almost anything other than working in customer 'service'.
Much to my surprise I'm also doing some stuff for radio. SYN 907 trained me, and at the moment I'm doing movie reviews for The Mess Room (Mondays, 5-6). So far, I've reviewed the Brave One, Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten and Conversation with my Gardener.
My spare time is often spent at the movies. That's possibly my favourite place, a darkened cinema, just me and whatever's rolling onscreen. Of course, it helps if the movie's good, and it's even better when it's free. I am somewhat lucky in that respect, I win all sorts of competitions and contests and get my hands on plenty of free movie passes, and occasionally bigger goodies.
I also love my sport. Cricket, football, soccer, hockey, ice hockey, basketball, some I play, some I try to play, some I watch. I'm not the looniest of fans, however I have an incredibly... ripe I'll say vocabulary which comes into play whenever a bad decision goes against my team. Admittedly I had twelve year olds use those words against me when I was umpiring, so my defence is 'what goes around, comes around'. Go Aussies, Sainters, Aussies, Aussies, Whoevers (I only watch ice hockey, I don't know much about it) and Aussies!
There's a couple of photos of me on here, but not many, I prefer to be behind the camera. Yes, that is the real AFL Premiership cup in one, 2005 in fact (before Sydney dented the crap out of it). I know a guy who knows a guy.
Filmography:
The Extra (feature film, 2005)
Macquarie Film Corporation
Volunteer Extra Taxiride – Oh Yeah (music video, 2005)
Brave films
Volunteer Extra Taxiride – What Can I Say (music video, 2006)
Brave films
Volunteer Extra Valentine's Day (telemovie, 2008)
ABC TV/December Films
Extra Prey (feature film, 2008)
Top Cat Films
Art department assistant The Wrong Road (short film, 2008)
True Blue Films
Art department Niflheim: Blood & Bullets (feature film, 2009)
Codename V Productions
1st Assistant Director, Contributions to script The Taj (feature film, 2010)
Oziinda Films/ArtliveMedia
Art department assistant
If you're a random band not on my music list, please don't waste my time
Who I'd like to meet: Frank Abagnale Jr, Jessica Biel, Michael Caine, Sofia Coppola, Russell Crowe, Michael J. Fox, Dave Grohl, Lenny Henry, Hugh Jackman, Peter Jackson, Billy Joel, Charlie Kaufman, Heath Ledger, Mick Malloy, Tony Martin, Emily Mortimer, Liam Neeson, Ray Park, Oliver Platt, Natalie Portman, Sam Raimi, Robert Rodriguez, Geoffrey Rush, Kevin Spacey, Steven Spielberg, James Wan, Joss Whedon
We told you to keep Saturday 22 November free people and we weren't joking!! We're holding the most random launch party for our brand spankin' new online series; Show Ponies: PLAYGROUND ever!! It's appropriately titled; 'COME OUT & PLAY' and that's exactly what we want you to do!! Party your pants off with Melbourne's true RockStars; the Show Ponies and meet the 20 girls battling it out for the chance to be in the 2009 Show Ponies Team. Your vote decides their fate people!!! Contact us via our official MySpace page or showponiescrew@hotmail.com for more info....
