CURRENT MISSION

To make new friends and experience new cultures.

ABOUT ME

I'm a film addict, I love everything that has to do with the movies, especially foreign films. I love to absorb and participate in different cultures and ideas. I'm spending the next couple of years on the road filming several documentaries on various subjects. I can't wait to experience the world and expand my own personal horizons along with meeting many great friends along the way.

PHILOSOPHY

My personal philosphy is all about making my life everything that I can dream it to be. I believe in being my contribution to society and taking a committed stand for peace and love in the world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm new to couch surfing but have heard amazing stories from a good friend of mine who has participated. I'm excited to meet new people and make new friends across the world. When I return back to the states, I'll definitely open up my home to fellow travelers.

Interests

Wakeboarding, Photography, Snowboarding, Filmmaking, Punk rock music and concerts, Football, Guitar Hero, Baseball, Movies, Video games, Literature and Writing.

• writing
• literature
• photography
• documentaries
• film making
• concerts
• movies
• video games
• music
• rock music
• guitar
• surfing
• snowboarding
• wakeboarding
• baseball
• soccer
• dialects
• languages
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: blink-182, The offspring, Angels and Airwaves, Beastie boys, The used, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sum 41, Unwritten law, Run DMC, Rage Against the Machine, +44, Joy Division, The sounds, My Chemical Romance, Ludacris, the Cure, Bad Religion, The Ataris, Silly Fools, DA JIM, Eve 6, Greenday, Guns N' Roses, Jimmy Eat World, Journey, Weezer.

Movies: American Beauty, City of God, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Revolutionary Road, The Wrestler, Slumdog MIllionaire, Fight Club, Sweeny Todd, Cinema Paradiso, 8 1/2, Pan's Labyrinth, The Fountain, Pi, Amelie, Raging Bull, The Departed, Gladiator, The Rules of the Game, Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, Big Fish, The Last Samurai, Ed Wood, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Bringing Out the Dead, Blood Diamond, Michael Clayton, Gangs of New York, Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Fellini Satyricon, The Godfather Trilogy, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, The 400 Blows, Munich, The Passion, Schindler's List, Sin City, Kill Bill vol. 1 and 2, Batman Begins, The Seventh Seal, Barton Fink, O Brother, Where Art Thou? Spiderman, 12 Monkeys, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Breathless, Apocalypse Now, Citizen Kane, Crash, Dr. Strangelove, JFK, Bruce Almighty, Snatch, The Green Mile, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Matrix Trilogy, Hitch, Indiana Jones, Man on Fire, 300, The Painted Veil, Grindhouse, 3:10 to Yuma, Pulp Fiction, the Die Hard films, Braveheart, Paths of Glory, The Bourne Trilogy, The Usual Suspects, V for Vendetta, Minority Report, La Strada and many more.

Books: Les Miserables, Tom Clancy stuff, Paradise Lost, Eckhart Tolle, Nietzsche, Feuerbach, Divine Comedy, Orwell, esp. 1984, Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange, recently Cormac McCarthy, Borges, Poetry, and any of the classics.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Managed a branch of volunteers in Buriram, Thailand for 10 months, of whom spoke three different languages and five different dialects. I have also written, produced and directed a 20 minute film on the consequences of placing religion over family.

Teach, Learn, Share

I have a vast amount of knowledge about the film and television industries in America and about film production. I have also completed a year long life training program where I am a certified life trainer.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Brazil, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Thailand, United States

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