David C. Daniel

About me

Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Writer
Location Hollywood, California, United States
Introduction 25 semi-random facts: 1 I was born in New Jersey the year Sputnik launched. 2 I was educated in the south end of California. 3 I finished high school in Seattle. 4 I started writing poetry after I entered puberty. 5 I stopped writing poetry soon after losing my virginity. 6 I don't have a college degree, and I don't mind a bit. 7 I became a photographer in my twenties. 8 I ran a photofinishing business in Seattle. 9 I have had my photographs in a gallery in Seattle. 10 I burned out on photography in my thirties. 11 I wrote my first feature-length spec screenplay in 1983. 12 I worked on an independent film set with Karl Krogstad in Seattle. 13 I directed a music video for a comedy team in Seattle. 14 I spent four months on the Bering Sea in winter. 15 I got an internet account in 1991. 16 I became an "IT professional." 17 I became a former "IT professional" fifteen years later. 18 I got married. 19 I got divorced. 20 I returned to screenwriting in 1999 while living in Florida. 21 I moved back to Seattle in 2001. 22 I moved to Hollywood in 2004. 23 I started blogging in 2003. 24 I learned to sail. 25 I expect to sell and/or option a screenplay this year (2005).
Interests Sailing, Travel, Technology, Literature, Music, Zeitgeist, Alt, Etc.
Favorite Movies In no particular order: 2001, The Last Picture Show, Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Conversation, Alien, Wild Strawberries, Scenes From a Marriage, The Secretary, Monster's Ball, Once Upon a Time in the West
Favorite Music The Who, Michael Franks, Pink Floyd, Herbi Mann, Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Blondie
Favorite Books Rabbit (Run, Redux, Is Rich, At Rest), Arrowsmith, Kingsblood Royal, Perfume, 1984, Brave new World, Moby Dick, Nine and a Half Weeks