CURRENT MISSION

Eating, drinking, listening in New Orleans
Quitting my two jobs
Going to Japan/ getting a job in Japan??
Applying to film school in Paris
Applying to chef in Antartica

ABOUT ME

I like conversations and meeting people from different places in the world. I like hearing stories, people from all over the world and how they've been affected by it. I like reading. I love music. I like art and literature. I like the sun. I like coffee. I like tea. I like quiet places. Beer, out in the open, with the blue sky overhead and the sound of blowing tree leaves, the taste of tabacco sliding between tongue and cheek. Beer! in the dingy little caves of Paris, where half-plastered men and women play chess and teasing. Cooking is - or should be - synonymous with meditation. Weekends are awesome, period.

I have lived in many ways - to working on a farm in the countryside of Japan, to being a student at one of the most expensive universities in the world, to working computers at the same super-expensive university, to working as a cashier at a japanese supermarket, a waiter/bartender at a couple japanese restaurants, to being a line cook at a fancy restaurant, to being a skateboard messenger in NYC, to wheatpasting for money around the city, to project managing in Seattle, to barista'ing to sushi chef'ing....

I have an aversion to technology, so I tend to limit my electricity usage, if you know what I mean. Don't have a facebook or twitter or whatever new social media is trending at whichever which moment. Couchsurfing is a bit of an exception because I like the intention of the website. I wonder about what it means that our world is becoming increasingly dependent on gadgets which necessitate electricity in order to function. I was plastic free for a year and now try to keep my consumption to a minimal. I worry about the state of the planet. Biking, skating, gardening, cooking, and fishing have cultivated a certain undetstanding between myself and the earth.

Interests

Languages, practical skills (like fixing a bike or knowing how to rapidly chop a million vegetables, or how to catch different kinds of fish), seeing different things in different ways and changing my perspective. Escaping my self.

(Btw where is the section on CS for "Languages I'm forgetting"?)

• fish
• arts
• writing
• literature
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• technology
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• cycling
• fishing
• skateboarding
• calligraphy
• communications
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

My list of movies, music, books expands constantly so this question is hard.

I like these Artists: Miles Davis, Haruki Murakami, John Coltrane, Roberto Bolano, Maria Schneider, Henry Miller, Brian Blade, Percival Everett, Miles Okazaki, Martin Heidegger, Chris Potter, John Hollenbeck, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jonathan Steinbeck , Marguerite Duras, ,,,

Right now, on my cluttered desk, aside from receipts and scraps of paper and loose change, ink wells and tapes of different colors, I have:

Silex, la culture dans tous ses etats (1976), Rhinoceros by Ionesco, I am an Emotional Creature by Eve Ensler, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Major Works, The Rebel's Silhouette, Selected Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Les Petites chevaux de Targuinia by Marguerite Duras, Le Ravissement de Lol V Stein (Duras), Technique du Cinema by Lo Duca, Les Confessions de Dan Yack (Blaise Cendrars), L'Evangile Selon Pilate by Eric Emmanuel Schmitt, Comment Faire un film by Claude Chabrol et Francois Guerif, Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth, Les Nouveaux Oberle (R. Bazin), L'herbe des nuits par Patrick Modiano, L'Amant . (Duras), Livret de Famille (Modiano), Le Rond de Nuit (Modiano), La Chasse a L'amour by Violette Leduc, Rhum (Cendrars), Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano - I haven't read all of them yet though.

Right now, I'm on the 5th book of Karl Ove Knaussgard's "My Struggle"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Recently...either fishing on the tip of the Olympic Peninsula in the middle of a storm, or constructing giant tripods and shutting down the largest Bank of America in Seattle. They're a bit different.

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to learn Peruvian Cuisine, Indian Spice Combinations (it's like eating a polyphony of flavors...), more French techniques, and regional Chinese (like from Xi'an or Schezchuan pronvince food). Among others of course.

I want to learn German, Greek, Arabic, Japanese, and Bambaran

I can teach basic portuguese, French, maybe English

I can talk about espresso for a long time. And climate change.
I can make pretty good espresso and my latte art's not terrible
I can show you how to clean a fish or how to make a mean chile verde or how to live plastic free or, I don't know...I'm pretty sure I know how to do a lot of stuff but I don't want to think about it.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My cooking and my thoughts on the world. And a lot of other things but it's hard to say. It depends on the host I guess.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, France, Japan, United States