I'm a writer and artist. I’ve published 14 books. Traveled a ton. I’m traveling with the love of my life, Samira, and our 6 month old daughter, Sophia. They’re the light of my world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I traveled to 28 countries in about 10 1/2 months back in 2009. I couch surfed my way around the world and then hosted couch surfers in LA for a while.

Interests

Alex Grey, Alejandro Jodorowsky, World Soul spirituality, Zen, Alan Watts, D.T. Suzuki, Nietzsche, Poetry, Painting, James Ensor, Goya, Salvador Dali, H.R. Giger, Kalachakra Tantra, Fashion photography, Video Games…. mostly just art… also camping, fishing, skateboarding, wake boarding, snowboarding, motorcycles, live music, etc.

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: the Doors, Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Angels and Airwaves, Ali Akbar Khan, the Beatles, Hendrix, Outkast, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Low Roar, Bon Iver, Florence and the Machine, Adele, Michael Jackson, any punk rock, reggae, ragas, etc.

Movies: Jodorowsky, Tarkovsky, Fellini, Bergman, Antonioni, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Kobayashi, Herzog

Books: Don Quixote, The Glass Bead Game, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1984, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, The Chuang Tzu, Transcending Time, Sculpting in Time by Tarkovsky, Secrets of Mayan Science/Religion by Humbatz Men, The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life by Drunvalo, Book of Five Rings, Hakuin's Precious Mirror Cave, The Gateless Gate, Blue Cliff Records, The Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes' Crow, The Collected Poems of Allen Ginsberg, Big Sur, Dharma Bums, Brave New World, Cloud Hidden; Whereabouts Unknown, Nature, Man and Woman, Zen and Japanese Culture, Primeval Kinship, England, England, A Brief History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters,Visions of Gerard, The Sun Also Rises, Twilight of the Idols, Essays in Zen Buddhism, The Buddha Said…, Huckleberry Finn, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Les Miserables, The Giver, Machiavelli's The Discourses, Jodorowsky's Humanoid series, Watchmen, Batman comics,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Won the Golden Ace Award at the Las Vegas Film Festival for a documentary I made.

Teach, Learn, Share

I would love to learn about whatever someone has to offer and share anything someone would like to know.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories. I have really good stories.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Laos, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Egypt, Thailand