Music career Tarver—who graduated from
Harvard University in 1988—first came to prominence as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the Boston hard rock/punk band
Bullet LaVolta in the late 1980s. They recorded a few records for Taang!, RCA, and Matador Records before disbanding in 1991. He then formed
Chavez with Matt Sweeney, Scott Marshall and James Lo.
Movie career Tarver has also worked as a screenwriter for television and film. He created the "Jimmy the Cabdriver"(
Donal Logue) interstitials for
MTV in the mid 1990s with friends from college. He has also written the screenplay for films such as
Joy Ride, with
J. J. Abrams, and other projects with
Mike Judge. Tarver won the 2016
Writers Guild of America Award for Episodic Comedy with "Sand Hill Shuffle," an episode of
HBO's
Silicon Valley. == References ==