David Wise

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About me

Gender Male
Location Agoura Hills, Califormia
Introduction Emmy-winning writer (Star Trek: The Animated Series, Transformers, Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). I warped your childhood beyond all recognition.
Interests Reading, art, music, movies, walking, building model kits, poker, modern and mid-century modern design, Japanese culture.
Favorite Movies Seven Samurai, King Kong, Forbidden Planet, The Dark Knight, Tokyo Story, Waiting for Guffman, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Wages of Fear, Citizen Kane, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Gone With the Wind, Les Vampires, Wing Chun, The General, Heat, The Sea Hawk, Collateral, Koyaanisqatsi, The Road Warrior, Pinocchio, Jason and the Argonauts, Kagemusha, La Belle et la Bete, Kill Bill, Annie Hall, are you getting tired yet?
Favorite Music Miles Davis, Fatboy Slim, The Beatles, Brian Eno, Bernard Herrman, LCD Soundsystem, 50s/60s Blue Note jazz, Nilsson, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, The Grateful Dead, The Who, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Borodin, Glazunov, Philip Glass, Bollywood soundtracks, Virtually anything except Country and American Idol-style pop.
Favorite Books Mrs. Bridge (Evan S. Connell), The Gormenghast trilogy (Mervyn Peake), Nova (Samuel R. Delany), 334 (Thomas M. Disch), Great Expectations (Dickens), City Life (Donald Barthelme), Ragtime (E.L. Doctorow), The Art of Fiction (John Gardner), Middlemarch (George Elliot), The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester), Play It As It Lays (Joan Dideon), The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles), The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler), to be continued...

You've been invited to a fancy ball but the only thing you have to wear is an orange wooly jumper. What shoes do you wear?

Red Ball Jets sneakers, and may I just add, that is EASILY the dumbest question I have ever heard in my life.