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David Matt Green (aka Shy Cloud)'s Interests
General
My passions are: life, people, books, writing, photography, videomaking, Apple computers, web design, networking, sports, music, films, theater, television
Music
To learn about my tastes in music, view the photos and profiles of my friends here. The majority of them are musicians I have photographed or hope to photograph.
Movies
Almost every film directed by Frank Capra, John Ford and Billy Wilder; almost every film written by William Goldman; almost any film featuring Jack Lemmon, Gene Kelly, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart or Randolph Scott; "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension," "The Adventures Of Robin Hood," "All The President's Men," "American Flyers," "American Graffiti," "An American In Paris," "Annie Hall," "The Apartment," "Batman," "Bell, Book And Candle," "The Big Circus," "The Big Chill," "Body Heat," "Breaking Away," "The Buccaneer," "Bull Durham," "Bullitt," "Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid," "Bye Bye Birdie," "Captain Blood," "Captains Of The Clouds," "Casablanca," "Cat Ballou," "The China Syndrome," "Citizen Kane," "The Court Jester," "The Crimson Pirate," "Deadline U.S.A.," "Diva," "Dive Bomber," "Double Indemnity," "Eddie And The Cruisers," "Ed Wood," "Fantasia," "Fahrenheit 9/11," "Field Of Dreams," "Flyboys," "The Gods Must Be Crazy," "The Graduate," "Grand Prix," "The Great Escape," "A Hard Day's Night," "High Noon," "Hoosiers," "The Illusionist," "It Happened One Night," "It Happens Every Spring," "It's A Wonderful Life," "Ivanhoe," "Lady And The Tramp," "Ladyhawke," "La Femme Nikita," "The Last Starfighter," "Local Hero," "Made In Heaven," "The Maltese Falcon," "Manhattan," "The Mark Of Zorro," "M*A*S*H," "Memoirs Of A Geisha," "Miracle On 34th Street," "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington," "The Music Man," "Nashville," "Nice Girls Don't Explode," "North By Northwest," "Oklahoma!", "On The Waterfront," "Peaceful Warrior," "The Princess Bride," "Raiders Of The Lost Ark," "Rear Window," "Rebel Without A Cause," "Rio Bravo," "Rocky," "Romancing The Stone," "The Sea Hawk," "1776," "Shane," "Show Business: The Road To Broadway," "Sicko," "Silverado," "Singin' In The Rain," "61*," "Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow," "Some Like It Hot," "Somewhere In Time," "A Song Is Born," "The Sting," "Superman," "The Terminator," "Terminator 2," "They Died With Their Boots On," "The Thief Who Came To Dinner," "The Thin Man," "To Catch A Thief," "Tombstone," "Urban Cowboy," "Virginia City," "Viva Las Vegas," "The Way We Were," "West Side Story," "Windy City," "Yankee Doodle Dandy"
Television
"Smallville," "Entourage," "Weeds," "24," "Cold Case," "Survivor," "Big Brother," "The Amazing Race," "So You Think You Can Dance," "The Apprentice," "Top Chef," "Two and a Half Men" (especially Chuck Lorre's loopy Vanity Cards at the end), "Scrubs," "My Name Is Earl," "How I Met Your Mother," "30 Rock," "The Big Bang Theory," "Chuck," "Reaper," "Men In Trees"
Books
"Way of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" & "The Bridge Across Forever" by Richard Bach, "Hope For The Flowers" by Trina Paulus, "You Were Born Again To Be Together" & "Earthly Purpose" by Dick Sutphen, "Anthem" & "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand, "The Princess Bride" & "The Season: A Candid Look At Broadway" by William Goldman, "The Glass Teat" by Harlan Ellison, the Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker, many novels by Larry McMurtry, "The Sot-Weed Factor" by John Barth, "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Cliff Stoll, "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" by Jack Herer, "Leadership Secrets Of Attila The Hun" by Wess Roberts
Heroes
Robin Hood & Lady Marian, Leonardo da Vinci, Michel de Nostradamus, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, The Swamp Fox, The Gray Ghost, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Matthew Brady, Samuel Clemens, Kit Carson, Sitting Bull, Wyatt Earp & Josie Marcus, George Eastman, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Wilbur & Orville Wright, Harry & Bess Houdini, Knute Rockne, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz & Georgia O'Keeffe, Edgar Cayce, Ayn Rand, Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall, Errol Flynn & Olivia DeHavilland, James Cagney, Gene Kelly, Danny Kaye, Frank Capra, Walt Disney, Ozzie & Harriet Nelson, Rick Nelson, David Nelson, Rod Serling, Sandy Koufax, Duke Snider, Ted Williams, Walt Alston, Sid Gillman, Don Coryell, Lance Alworth, Dan Fouts, Bill & Jacquie Whittaker, Bill Walton, Muhammed Ali, Jackie Stewart, Mario Andretti, Vin Scully, Joe Falls, Frank Deford, Paul Williams, Jann Wenner, Cameron Crowe, Baron Wolman, Annie Leibowitz, Henry Diltz, Sean Flynn, Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein, William Goldman, Robert Altman, Lawrence Kasdan, Dick & Tara Sutphen, Dan Millman, Dana Delany, Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs, Tony Gwynn, Junior Seau, LaDainian Tomlinson, Christopher & Dana Reeve, Montel Williams, Jack Herer, Chris Conrad, Dennis Peron, Todd McCormick, Elvy Musikka, Brownie Mary Rathbun, Peter McWilliams, Steve McWilliams
San Diego State University
San Diego, CALIFORNIA
Graduated: 1972
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Journalism
Clubs: Copy Editor, Sportswriter & Classified Advertising Manager for Daily Aztec newspaper; Statistician for Coach Don Coryell's Aztecs football team; Member of Sigma Delta Chi Professional Journalism Society; Captain of Himan's Deli & Charlie Brown's All-Stars intramural teams
1970 to 1972
San Diego Mesa College
San Diego, CALIFORNIA
Graduated: 1970
Student status: Alumni
Major: Journalism
Clubs: President of Newman Club; Sportswriter for The Daily Olympian newspaper
1967 to 1970
St Augustine High School
San Diego, CALIFORNIA
Graduated: 1967
Student status: Alumni
Clubs: Head Manager & Scorekeeper for Saints varsity basketball, baseball & football teams; Statistical Consultant & Sportswriter for The Augustinian newspaper; Captain of Bowling Club team named The Bonks
1963 to 1967
David Matt Green (aka Shy Cloud)'s Companies
Shy Cloud Productions San Diego, CA US
Since 1992
San Diego Catholic School Alums San Diego, CA US
Since 1984
D Green and Associates San Diego, CA US
Since 1972
David Matt Green (aka Shy Cloud) hasn't had a real good Saturday. Things kept going wrong. So he's giving up and going to bed early. Hopefully Sunday will be better.
I am working with David Fresina, a Boston filmmaker who aims to make a documentary commemorating the 30th anniversary of the September 25, 1978, PSA plane crash in San Diego that killed 144 people. He found me because I took this picture on that horrible day:
These are photos I shot and some that I'm in:
I am David Matt Green, a professional writer, editor, photographer, videographer, publicist and webmaster who is lucky enough to live in the southwest corner of sunny Southern California, in beautiful San Diego.
ShyCloud.com is the name of my actual web site. I also have a gallery of my photos at ShyCloud.com/DMGsGallery, and you can see a bunch of them in the slide show above.
Way back in the previous millennium, I was a very bashful young Cub Scout in a pack that held a Native American Day. Our Den Mothers created Indian names for each of us, and mine dubbed me: Shy Cloud, Chief of the Arapahos.
I earned a Journalism degree from San Diego State University in 1972, then spent the rest of the '70s working for newspapers as a reporter, photographer, copy editor and design editor. In the '80s I taught high school Journalism for four years. I also was a yearbook adviser for two years, and one of those books was voted "Best In The County"!
I have been online since 1989. From 1991-96 I operated a computer bulletin board system known as Pro-Harold.cts.com, where many of my friends got their very first Internet e-mail addresses!
By mid-1996, though, I had seen the .com future, so on December 29th of that year I turned my BBS into a web site called ShyCloud.com, which began offering "Moral Support For Creative Sorts."
As a photographer with 35 years of professional experience, I specialize in capturing action and candid pictures. I've shot more than 550 singers and bands during shows at coffee houses and bars. I also have photographed actual performances or dress rehearsals of about 40 plays for over a dozen different San Diego theater companies!
The majority of my friends here on MySpace are musicians and actors who I already have taken pictures of in the past. I also have added some of my long-time favorite performers who I haven't actually met yet, because I still hope to shoot photos of them too some day!
To learn more about me and my projects, please visit my web site: ShyCloud.com
Thanks for visiting me on MySpace! Please come back again soon!
David :>
P.S./1 -- The two pictures of me higher in this column were shot by my longtime best friend Marisa Cullen. My current default profile photo was shot at the April San Diego Photography Meetup by a wonderful photographer named Bidone Bouriyaphon.
P.S./2 -- Because I spend so much time shooting music photos, people are always asking me if I play an instrument. No, I don't, but when I was in 7th and 8th grade I was taking guitar lessons and was on my way to following in the footsteps of one of my idols back then, the late, great Ricky Nelson. Here I am with a flat-top haircut like Ricky had around that time. I loved sports more than music, though, and in high school I ventured off in that direction, which eventually led me to sportswriting, journalism and photography.
P.S./3 -- "Becoming" by Lindsey Yung is the official song of my profile, because Lindsey's words parallel a lot of my own ideas about life. To watch a video I shot of Lindsey singing the song at Lestat's, after first dedicating it to me, click here.
P.S./4 -- By the way, in case you're wondering, I'm still not a life-of-the-party guy, but I'm no longer quite as shy as I once was.
P.S./6 -- I was one of six San Diego music photographers featured in a photo show on May 13, 2006, called "Anything For The Shot!" The 9-hour event also included 18 musical performers.
Who I'd like to meet:
I AM ON MYSPACE to network with the many talented people who I've actually met in my travels around Southern California. My Top 40 Friends here are all people I've met in person at least once.
I AM NOT ON MYSPACE to find a bunch of pen pals in faraway places. I have many real friends to care about here at home, so I just can not devote much time and energy to building relationships with distant strangers who I'm not likely to ever meet!
I therefore don't accept many friend requests from people I haven't met already in person, so if I don't know you and you send me a request out of the blue, I probably will deny it!
If you also e-mail me and EXPLAIN YOUR REQUEST, however, it will show that you've actually read at least this much of my profile, and that you aren't just sending me a generic friend request. Your explanation might convince me to make an exception and add you.
David Matt Green (aka Shy Cloud)'s Friend Space (Top 40)
we very much remember meeting you and seeing you in action this last november. seeing the beautiful work you made at that event. thank you for the memory.
Video of legendary local band "SUPERUNLOADER" shot by King Rey Films Live Via Barfly promotions, Warning: this video is sick!!! Still rocking after 17 years!
I'd love to see you join my new photographers forum! We already have over 650 photographers in a short period of time. We're all there to help each other create better images and make more money!
I am 
By mid-1996, though, I had seen the .com future, so on December 29th of that year I turned my BBS into a web site called 
P.S./2 -- Because I spend so much time shooting music photos, people are always asking me if I play an instrument. No, I don't, but when I was in 7th and 8th grade I was taking guitar lessons and was on my way to following in the footsteps of one of my idols back then, the late, great 
