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David Von Shmavid

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About Me

Though raised by gibbons with a limited grasp of the English language, I managed to translate my mediocre high school grades into a successful career in llama herding. After becoming tired of the smell, I attended the Larry Storch International School of Electronic Hair Dryer Repair in the town of my birth, Xenia, Ohio. I worked toward receiving my masters degree while employed as a gigolo for widowed yard duties. Eventually I decided to see the world, so I packed up my collection of pre-WWII egg beaters and my trusty dog, Melvin, and caught a steamer to the South Pacific island of Fatu Hiva. There I learned the ancient art of headshrinking and kava fermentation, and have been providing robust business solutions to Hollywood agents ever since. My family and our 7 mynah birds, 9 spotted weasels and 27 professionally trained potato bugs live in a former dehydrated astronaut food factory on the outskirts of a major metropolitan airport.

My Interests

Comedy, Tragedy, Strong Coffee, Redwood Trees, Doodling, Tickling the Ivories, Ukuleles, Accordions, Guitars, Drums, Tubas, Chromatic Percussion, Gardenias, Sea Air, Simians, Misfits, Coconut Cake, Craftsmanship, Kosher Style Delicatessens

Music:

The Animals, Louis Armstrong, Syd Barrett, The Beatles, Beck, Blondie, David Bowie, Brinsley Schwarz, James Brown, Cheap Trick, The Clash, The Cocteau Twins, John Coltrane, Elvis Costello, Deerhoof, Marlene Dietrich, Dolly Mixture, Bob Dylan, Earth Wind and Fire, Elastica, Electric Light Orchestra, The Fiery Furnaces, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Game Theory, George Gershwin, Doug Gillard, Guided By Voices, Lionel Hampton, Hanne Hukkelberg, Françoise Hardy, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, The Ink Spots, Japan, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, The Kinks, Kiss, Kraftwerk, Ben Kweller, Led Zeppelin, The Left Banke, Nick Lowe, Jimmy McGriff, Mathematiques Modernes, The Mills Brothers, The Only Ones, Orange Juice, Roy Orbison, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Os Mutantes, Buck Owens, Pavement, The Pebbles, The Pixies, Elvis Presley, Ray Price, The Ramones, Django Reinhardt, Nino Rota, The Rolling Stones, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Frank Sinatra, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Slits, Elliott Smith, Jimmy Smith, The Soft Boys, The Specials, Alexander "Skip" Spence, Stereolab, Stereo Total, The Sweet, T. Rex, Teenage Fanclub, Tenpole Tudor, Ultravox, Van Halen, Velvet Underground, The Ventures, The Vibrators, Tom Waits, Fats Waller, White Noise, The Who, Hank Williams, Wire, Wreckless Eric, X, XTC, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yellow Magic Orchestra, The Zombies, 70s Funk, 70s Indian Movie Soundtracks

Movies:

Sunrise, Ninotchka, Trouble in Paradise, Duck Soup, Holiday, My Man Godfrey, Ruggles of Red Gap, The Philadelphia Story, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Gold Diggers of 1933, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, His Girl Friday, Notorious, A Room with a View, 8 1/2, Playtime, Orpheus, Ugetsu, Seven Samurai, Floating Weeds, Wages of Fear, Grey Gardens, Fanny and Alexander, Mean Streets, Annie Hall, The Jerk, Amar Akbar Anthony, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Boogie Nights, Blade Runner, Sunset Boulevard, From Russia with Love, M, Black Narcissus, All About Eve, Royal Tenenbaums, Ghost World, Shampoo, American Graffiti, Lost in Translation

Television:

You Bet Your Life, The Dick Cavett Show, The Avengers, Original Star Trek, The Brady Bunch, The Larry Sanders Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm

Books:

The Sun Also Rises, Hitchcock/Truffaut, Catcher in the Rye, Harpo Speaks, Typee, Kon Tiki, Boy Scout Manual