CURRENT MISSION

Finish learning French, drink lots of Grey Goose while contributing to the welfare of humankind.

ABOUT ME

I'm well read and I make good conversation. I like books and magazines, movies, working out, and social life. Also, I play music. I play piano and I used to sing. Sometimes I write, mostly notebooks of sarcastic remarks but occasionally an essay or two.

In school I studied philosophy and classics. I do my best to be a man of parts, and I'm good at a lot of things. Ideas, the arts, and the life of the senses are my main occupations. I love beautiful things of all kinds and especially, as a distinguished person once put it, "useless and beautiful things."

At the top of my list are, among other things, Visconti's The Leopard, T.S. Eliot, Sebastien Tellier, Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, Pascal, The Sun Also Rises, Chopin, Joan Didion, L'Avventura etc.

In terms of food and all that, my very favorite category is steak & seafood (lobster mac is a favorite), but I also like Indian food and Mexican a lot. I mostly drink vodka (gimlets) and I like to smoke cigarettes, especially illegal ones from other countries.

As far as the ladies, I suppose I like a little bit of everything, but Joan Holloway is great, also Carla Gugino and that girl from the AT&T commercials. I also have a thing for smart girls who talk well, with that sort of soft growl thing that they do. Relatively fit with something to grab on to is generally what I'm looking for.

PHILOSOPHY

I believe in civilization.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am new to CS and am trying it out for the first time. For now I have no place of my own to offer and am looking for a place to stay, but I will reciprocate when I'm able.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet.

Interests

Writing, Intellectual History, Physical Fitness, Conversation, Film

• arts
• humanities
• writing
• books
• singing
• dining
• seafood
• indian food
• fitness
• working out
• drinking
• clothing
• movies
• reading
• billiards
• music
• piano
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Lindstrom, Hall & Oates, Thriller, The Righteous Brothers, Chromeo, Stephen Falken

Movies: Heat, The Big Sleep, Le Cercle Rouge, Vertigo

Books: The Genealogy of Morals, Pensees, Ecclesiastes, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Trial, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Sun Also Rises

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Reading the first book of the Iliad in Greek at school.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know a decent amount about Roman civilization. Also Kierkegaard. I'm a good pool player.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Erudition (not in a braggy way), good taste in movies books clothes etc., quips

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada