Ballyhoo

David Scott is a master architect who builds sentences you can walk around in. Gifted with the eye of a true crafter, he fits words together in ways the ear has never heard, in a simultaneity of wonder and recognition that will leave your heart rioting. He is an artist, in the truest sense of the word, with a style that transcends trends to reach new ground of startling originality. His work bears the mark of a man who has been to the depths, truly listened and truly seen; a courageous open ear to the world around him, he is defiantly not numb. 

With lines that murder like:

• “His laughter is like a bar fight running at half speed.”
• “We have crashed the streets as echoes fleeing dreams.“
• “He saw the bodies slumped in chairs like tortured wicks, the faces sagging like used cigarettes.“

He evokes gruesome beauty, bold-faced truth, hard-won compassion. He sets other people’s shoes before you, helps you try them on, and then takes you for a mile-long walk.

And all that is just on the page.

In 2009, his work was featured on the face-melting intro and outro tracks of the DLRN ep “No More Heroes”, an entire album which is well worth checking out. The intro, also titled “No More Heroes”, is a surreal journey through the bowels of the metropolitan night, a dystopic vision of despair and disappointment, the pressure of bills to pay and the defeat of living inside a system where the house always wins. And the outro, “Grandfather Jensen”, picks up where the intro left off, following a mysterious old man, a street-corner prophet, soothsaying the dooms and victories of how we choose to carry ourselves through our lives, that in the end the fact of our successes or failures are carried in the power of our own choices. Both tracks are beautiful, breath-taking, worthy of standing ovation.

The hurricane-force of his writing ability is matched only by the jaw-dropping power of his performance. To witness his stage show is to be broken open utterly. The combination of his accomplished acting background and the sincerity of his words and delivery serves to leave audiences ringing, breathless, and understandably speechless. His live performances being few and far between, David Scott is the best kept secret of California literary scenes.

If you haven’t yet heard of D. Scott, it is high time that you did.

His website would be a good place to start:
www.spacesickdiaries.com

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