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Dave

www.davetomko.com

About Me

Fun fact about Dave: The sweltering Friday in the month of July I made my début in this world John Travolta had a super shitty movie, Blow Out , doing the same thing. Now, no longer living in Deer Park (which is NOT were the water is made) I live in Philadelphia on a street only a few blocks from a scene filmed on Race Street ( formerly Sassafras and apparently formerly scary looking too) in this movie.

I'll give you a moment to compose yourself. I'm sure you were as shocked about this irrelevant connection as I was.

Sorry I just wasted those few minutes of your life. Just kidding I'm not. Are you still reading?

Oh yeah and if you haven't noticed I am opposed to commas.

My Interests

I really like painting with watercolor. I've started an .. comic but I've been putting most of my time into drawing a graphic novel I've written. But my detailed hatch marks are making pages go by super slow.

I'd like to meet:

I would have liked to met Will Eisner and pick his brain.

Music:

Favorites include wilco , Ben Folds , Sufjan Stevens , Bob Dylan , Nick Drake , Neutral Milk Hotel , Counting Crows , Simon & Garfunkel , Iron & Wine , North Mississippi Allstars , Josh Ritter and The Beatles .

Currently I'm listening to Andrew Bird , The Apples in Stereo , Arcade Fire , Beirut , Blonde Redhead , Brian Eno , Clap Your Hands Say Yeah , Cold War Kids , Ghostface Killah , Golden Smog , Great Lake Swimmers. , The Knife , Lily Allen , The National , Neutral Milk Hotel , Nirvana , Panda Bear , Pavement , TV on the Radio , Vampire Weekend , Voxtrot , White Rabbits , wilco and Winterpills .

Movies:

Favorites would probably be The Royal Tenenbaum , Lost in Translation , Mystic River and The Man Who Wasn't There .

I dig most anything by Wes Anderson and The Coen Brothers .

Television:

I watch The Shield , Lost , Meet the Press , The Chris Matthews Show , The Daily Show , and The Colbert Report .

Occasionally I will watch The Office (but everyone should rent this Office ), My Name Is Earl , whatever Law & Order is on and The Batman .

Books:

Right now I'm reading

What Is the What by Dave Eggers

Superman: They Saved Luthor's Brain! by Roger Stern , John Bryne , Bob McLeod , Jackson Guice , Kieron Dwyer , and Dick Giordano .

The monthly comics I read are Countdown , Justice Society of America and TeenTitans .

Magazines I read are Paste and Esquire .

Some of my favorite writers are Michael Chabon , J. D. Salinger , Oscar Wilde , Dave Eggers , David Sedaris , Geoff Johns , Alan Moore , Grant Morrison , Will Eisner , Neil Gaiman and Art Spiegelman .

My Blog

2007 Graphic Novels

Because I find myself so inspirational I have decided not only to keep track of the books I read but also the Graphic Novels.2007JanuaryThe Outsiders: The Good Fight - Volume Five written by Judd Wini...
Posted by Dave on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:20:00 PST

2007 Book list

2007 book listFor 2007 I will break my books down by month. Hopefully I will start rating the books too.But while you are waiting for me to rate the books you can check out this site. The site ugly as...
Posted by Dave on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:33:00 PST

2006 Book List

Everyone needs to check out Art Garfunkel's website, specifically his list of every book he has read since 1968. Though I doubt my reading rivals the voraciousness of Art's, I have decided to catalog ...
Posted by Dave on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:16:00 PST