I am Dave! I love to play & run RPGs, I love geeking out over new movies. I love to read, write, watch & listen. I'm less "religious" & more "faithful", I like kids & critters, & I enjoy physicality, but don't get out there & move enough.
I love sunrises & sunsets, unique flora & fauna, and most people I meet. I love electrical storms. Any sort of rain is a joy to me, but when the thunder rolls and the lightning crashes and the driving rain roars against the windows (Or against the skin), it makes me feel alive inside.
I am disorganized, fun-filled, & weird. I clean up well- but cleaning up anything other than ME is kind of rare... :)
I'm also a hopeless romantic & smart ass, a philosopher & humorist who loves people even if I don't always relate to them.
My friend seanconor told me about this site & is super cool. If you don't like me for some bizarre reason, but like guys that are like me, check out his profile. Another friend of mine, jlboyd04, is radically different than me, (he's a closet gamer. The poor soul.), but a cool cat. If you're more conservative, or like arguing with conservatives... well, there it is. And by "it", I mean "he".

Home, according to the late great Bob Marley, is inside my head. I'm inclined to agree. I spent $87 grand to learn money's nice, but not what I want in life. I spent 7 years stoned out of my gourd to learn I have a really hard time functioning while I'm stoned out of my gourd, fun as it may be. I spent 4 years working in the liquor industry to learn that booze is freaking BAD for you- fun as it may be. I spent two years in the coffee industry to learn Starbucks is eeeevil. (but makes awesome coffee) I've spent 10 months in the Security industry to learn I need to get into a college so I can be a professional writer. Working nights, as I do, makes it difficult.
But in the meantime, I wile away the hours playing my games, honing the writing craft in a less formal way, & having a lot of fun doing it.

The telling of tales, crafting personalities & developing plot. Also, I'm a good listener, communicator, advisor & procrastinator. Also good at taking tests & job interviews; a result, I feel, of the Texas public school system's influence.

My vocabulary. I'm occasionally accused of using "Ten Dollar Words", (thanks for the quote JLBoyd04 )but I'm not trying to impress... it just comes naturally to me. (I was raised on books.)
I also have a voice that's been described as "Orwellian", which rocks... I always thought it was closer to Mel Blanc, but eeh.. who am I to judge? It's what OTHER people notice in this section, after all.

ALL OF THEM!!! (...woah, that was a little intense!)
Let's break it down with a little more clarity...

Books:
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
The Getaway (Jim Tomson)
The Hichiker's Guide Saga (Douglas Adams)
Hannibal Rising (Thomas Harris)
Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
1984 (George Orwell)
Red Dwarf (Grant Naylor)
The Zombie Survival Guide (Max Brooks)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas)
Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
Nightfall (Isaac Asimov)
Angels & Demons (Dan Brown)
Dune (Frank Herbert)
The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
The Shining (Steven King)
Ringworld (Larry Niven)
Farenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
The Bible (Various Authors)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Sphere (Michael Chrichton)
Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
& many, many more.

I like movies. A lot. A lot lot. Lately, I have realized it's a lot simpler to list films I don't like than those I do. On that note, I don't like:
Napoleon Dynamite, (though I can't help but quote it occasionally). 90% of all films starring Will Ferrell, Steve Martin, Richard Geare or Chevy Chase. Ben Stiller films in which he tries too hard. Remakes that suck compared to the origional. Pearl Harbor. Craptacular editing. The Hills Have Eyes. Deliverance. Big Hollywood Bullshit. Any horror films in which the protagonists do nothing but whine, beg or run away. Fantastic 4. Spiderman 3. Robocop 2. The One (well, ok, that one was pretty cool. It could have been much better, though, and I was on a roll.). Don't Say A Word. Jackass: the Movies. Spring break films of no lasting worth. Teenybopper tripe. Sequels that just cash in on a sucessful first film, (see also: Pirates of the Carribean). Superbad. Adam Sandler playing an asshole or utter moron.

In the past I've mentioned Gladiator & Last Samurai as films I don't like because of their historical inaccuracy. But I'm torn- both these films do rock, they're just not true. Fiction. And I like fiction- it's just that they give the impression that what you're seeing is history as it actually was, not as an art form. Trouble is, I really like some of these- Kingdom of Heaven being a huge example. The Wind & The Lion being another. I think I've got the problem pinned down, so bear with me:
In The Wind & The Lion, a woman & her two children is captured by the Sherriff & held for randsom. In real life, this is what happened, (more or less,) except that it was a man & his children. A change was made to make for dynamic storytelling & hints at romance between the male & female lead. I get it. No issue. Done. Otherwise, the plot remains intact.
Last Samurai had a Gaijin immigrant & prisioner convert & join the noble caste of warrior-poets that formed the backbone of Japan's military & aristocracy. It's a stretch, but I can buy it. But at the end he convinces the Emperor to forsake the evil Westerners & stay true to the traditions of his forefathers- and while that's great for the ending of a movie, it's not what happened. If it had there mightn't be Mitsubishi or Honda or Pearl Harbor. This takes a beautiful, badass film like Gladiator & crosses that fine line called "Poetic license" and becomes "Big Hollywood bullshit" somewhere along the line.

For those brave few of you who really want to know, here's a very abbreviated list. A more thorough list is available upon request:

Movies (in no particular order):
the Star Wars saga, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Last Temptation of Christ, Ladyhawke, Lord of the Rings, Darkon, The Indiana Jones Trillogy (there are only three. There never was a fourth, & I didn't pay $12.50 to see it. I reject your reality & substitute my own.), Persuit of Happyness, Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, Dr. Horrible, Joe Vs. The Volcano, Zombie movies of all sorts, all star trek movies but esp. The Undiscovered Country, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (just for The Grim Reaper), Young Frankenstein, Shawshank Redemption, Transformers (Michael Bay may rely overmuch on special effects, but even a blind dog finds a bone once in a while.), Most MST3K American Beauty, the Matrix Saga,Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Blues Brothers, Aliens, the Evil Dead saga.

Music:
I like relaxing, melow tunes, "music to space out to", or something energetic:
Muddy Waters, Blues Brothers, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Rise Against, B.B. King, some Green Day, Electronica (Esp. Paul Oakenfold), 30 Seconds to Mars, CCR, Avenged Sevenfold, The Marleys (both Bob & Damien), Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Gorillaz, Led Zepplin, Beatles, Mozart, John Williams, Jimi Hendrix, Flogging Molly, Very, verrrry little Country (except Johnny Cash), Goldfinger, Sneaker Pimps, Rage Against the Machine, Sublime, Pirate shanties (Arrrr!) & many, many more. Lately I've been indulging darkly in the soundtrack to Sweeny Todd.. (Mischief! Mischief!)

Food:
Pizza, steak, sushi, (oh my yes... sushi.) all things from the grill, sesame chicken, & much, much more... usually to excess :) My favorite beer is Guinness (proof that God loves us & wants us to be happy...); I like making homemade sangria. Also, Hot Saki + Cold Night = yum. I like good bread, and good cheese. Some people think that makes me pretentious. They're wrong: my brie may be, but I am not. I don't eat lobster as a rule because it's freaking expensive, and tastes like you're eating a stick of butter.

RPGs (that's Role Playing Games for those of you who hear P.C. & think of etiquette or technology),

video games (Oblivion, Fallout 3, Tetris, New Mario Brothers, & Civilization Revolution being my current favorites),

movie references (Mongo only pawn in game of life...),

God, (And a good thing I'll not have to!)

my family, (I've been very blessed with them. And I'm not prone to saying things like that. Just don't let us sing you Happy Birthday.)

my friends.

I think about the girl of my dreams- & of meeting her. I think about philosophy, religion, faith & fate. I think about where I've been & where I'm going. I think about my friends & family. Oh, and also: movies, books, video games, Monty Python, drunken Ninjas with Pirate leanings fighting a gang war in the greatest city on the face of the world, bloodsucking undead monsters waging a shadow war over the throne of Boston while the barbaric enemy attempts to invade, how to survive the Zombie Apocalypse, a chaotic melodrama while in the heart of the Cult of the Egyptian God of Storms... Let's just leave that section at "fiction".

With my new schedule, I'd be at work until 11:00 PM, then going home while jamming out to whatever is in the CD player & depressurizing for an hour or two before going straight to bed so I can be at work again at 7:00 AM. I'm not sure what'll happen with my saturday nights with the new schedule. We'll see..

I've answered over a thousand questions on this site. This one is the one that provoked the most thought in me, and on a subject I had not considered in the past:

"The diamond dependent economy of West Africa causes civil wars and crimes against humanity. Should people consider this when purchasing or receiving an engagement ring?"

For the ladies:
you want to.
OR
you think I'm attractive
OR
you feel an inherent spiritual connection to me for reasons unknown.
OR
You're an attractive woman & are looking for someone who appreciates you
Or, more likely...
you're looking for a nice guy with lots of potential & very little baggage. You'd have to accept a slightly-more-than-mild Star Wars affinity, a near obsession with the trials & tribulations of pretend people, & a moderately weird schedule. Such is life.

Gentlemen: if you want to talk to me, you'd better be one hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is.