David Smith

USC, Yale (but just for summer school), NC School of the Arts (high school)

University of Southern California, Attended - , Class of 2003, Other, BFA in Theatre; Minor in Architecture

actor, designer, real estate marketing/advertising

did AIDSWALK last week (Playboy team ironically); Celebration Theatre, designed set for Nicholas Nicholby (opening at the COmplex Nov. 26 GO SEE IT! );

architecture/design, theatre, eating ice cream in bed, free jazz concerts at LACMA, skinny-dipping, two-buck-chuck, those emrald nuts commercials on TV. Guilty pleasure: karaoke

"A Pattern Language" "A Prayer for Owen Meany", "Clockwork Orange", pretty much anything by David Ives, David Sedaris, Tony Kushner, Chris Durang, Terrence McNally, Dell Shore, Tennessee, etc

Sordid Lives, Office Space, Annie Hall, Waiting for Guffman, Clue, Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Midnight in Garden of Good&Evil, Bullets Over Broadway.

anything but rap and heavy metal

Lately: Arrested Development, Scrubs, House. All time favs: Family Guy, Simpsons, Strangers w/ Candy, Law & Order, Sex & the City, Frazier, Trading Spaces. Guilty Pleasures: Golden Girls, Designing Women, and A&E Biographies about screwed up divas.

Virgo

Me? Oh, I'm a walking contradiction. Example: the other
day I was listening to Gospel Christmas music on my way to a Buddhist group chant; I was just on the phone commending a friend who just gave up drinking, but had trouble hearing him over the blender (which I was using to make a 2nd round of margaritas). I'm usually a quick-witted
smartass, yet talking animated fish make me cry; a caustic skeptic on the outside, yet a soft-hearted
hopeless romantic inside...actually I'm worse than a
hopeless romantic - I'm a hopeFUL romantic. Even though I've been in LA for 7 years, I'm perpetually an East Coast boy at heart. Whenever I read the Arts & Leisure section of the NYTimes, I get jealous and wonder why I'm not living in NY yet. Then I look at the apt. 4 rent section and the weather forcast and remember why. I grew up in this small southern town in the "Bible Belt," but I break about every stereotype usually associated with that part of the country. One of the many things I've learned along the road between my WASPY churh-going sheltered childhood and my current existence as a liberal gay Angeleno is this: the Christian Right is Neither. I'm definately a guy who's propelled through life by creative impulses and artistic passions...but have to struggle to find the motivation I need to do something about it. Open-minded, down-to-earth, and easy-going as hell....unless f**ked with - then i'm a vicious asshole. =) My family and friends mean the world to me, and I consider myself one of the luckiest guys around to have them in my life. I think irony is the clockspring of the universe, and I can say the alphabet backwards in less than 3 seconds. . . go ahead. ask me.

I came accross a poem entitled "THE INVITATION" which answers this question much better than I. . . please click onto my RSS feed / LiveJournal link below to view. . . . .

It's a great little piece of prose...definately worth a few secs. to check out.