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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
@JRIFTWOOD
Member since 2007
CURRENT MISSION To dive into Montreal! ABOUT ME I have broad interests and I love fusion of all kinds, from music to language to food. I´m a student of Anthropology with focus on visual and linguistic aspects. I'm a city creature but I require large doses of nature. I love when city and nature intermingle via ingenious urban planning. I'm a veritable language geek- e.g. I like that monosyllabic is five syllables. I'm always looking for root connections and patterns in and across languages. Other things that I'm about: experimental typography, photographic art, screen printing, portuguese and spanish conversations, listening to/making music (though I'm not a proper musician), philly's diverse stock of buildings and architecture, offbeat humor, libertine dinner parties, pbs/npr/bbc, korean, thai and mexican cuisines, IPA, pick-up soccer, swing dance, yoga, percussion-centric music, reggae in the morning PHILOSOPHY "The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish. When the fish are caught the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to." -Chuang Tzu "As your attorney, I advise you to take a hit out of the little brown bottle in my shaving kit." -Dr. Gonzo
Interested in Art
Fluent in English
Learning Gujarati
1 Vouch
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Belo Horizonte, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro
Music, Movies, and Books
Music: The Stick Men, Yello, Ninja Tune, Beatles, Susumu Yokota, Boards of Canada, Beck, Meredith Monk, David Bowie, Cee-Lo, The Last Poets, , Mos Def, Bob Dylan, Q-tip, Boozoo Bajou, Prefuse73, Kid606, DJ Krush, DJ Food, Aceyalone, Pharcyde, Kruder&Dorfmeister, Sound In Color, Od Nos Dam, Fela Kuti, Miles Davis, Yusef Lateef, Art Blakey, Jimi Hendrix, Jorge Bem, Seu George, Caetano Veloso, Cymande, Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Movies: City of God, Dead Man, Brazil, Godfather II, Ghandi, Glory, True Romance, The Pianist, Big Night, Back to the Future, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Il Postino, Matewan, Dead Man Walking, Delicatessen, Ground Hog Day, Scotland PA, Dr. Strangelove, Broken Flowers, Withnail and I, Lord of the Rings, Apocalypto anything with Bruce Lee or Charlie Chaplin
Teach, Learn, Share
William Blake: Do you still have my eyeglasses? Nobody: No, I traded them. Do you have any tobacco? William Blake: No, I traded it. Nobody: For what? William Blake: I'm not telling. Nobody: Liar. William Blake: Thief.
My Interests
writing, drumming, typography, photography, film, yoga, Portuguese, Spanish, English, Japanese, Latin, maps, root words, sage, zazen, sunshine & wine, rooftop reclining, Hooka lounging, Philly-style bocceball,pie assassins, great big Central American lakes, The Lusophone Triangle, Quaker silence, multilingual conversations.... People and Figuras: Dr. Gonzo, Peter Sellars, Richard Pryor, Bill Murray, Jim Jarmusch, Terry Gilliam, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Gore Vidal, Khalil Gibran, Aldous Huxley, Marcel Proust, Black Elk, Malcolm X, Bobby Kennedy, Lewis Carroll, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Langston Hughes, Beatrix Potter, Hafiz, Dogen, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Saccho and Vanzetti, Bruce Lee and Charlie Chaplin...