CURRENT MISSION

to participate in your community before moving on to another...damn that sounds sincere

ABOUT ME

I'm hitchiking (train-hopping when I learn from someone), a vegan (don't be scared by that, I'll cook you lovely vegan delights), 23, a bi post-gender male, very involved in the animal rights movement (though I wont be an ass-hole and cram shit down your throat, or yell at you for not being vegan. I do like talking about it if you'd like to.), been doing direct action/activism for awhile now, taking 2 years to hitch around North America before law school (animal law).

420 friendly and medicinially (sp?)

sex-positive

Oh, and since I don't have a camera or a picture of myself, here goes:

Um...I'm 5'8 with a big[ish] beard, no mustache, and big curly hair. Glasses that I like alot and many lost bracelets/necklaces that are no longer being worn. I smile alot...I like walks in the woods and by the train tracks.

PHILOSOPHY

a localist. local, small, independent communities of value-adding industries. that gives me interesting views that people misidentify as 1. libertarian 2. anarchist and 3. green I am post-gender, queer-positive, and a fierce feminist (2nd wave, not "sex in the city" feminism).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm very bothered by travelers who come into town, dumpster all the best places, take all your beer, and leave without cleaning up.

Instead, I work to give back to the community that I have the fortune to be in.

I'll cook you fabulous vegan food.
I'll do all of your dishes/clean your bathroom/organize your zines/etc
Do you have an event/protest/lecture/art show? I'll show up early to set up and stay late to tear down. I'll wheatpaste all your posters and go flyering.
I'll give a lecture at your event.
I'll dumpster things you might find useful
I'll jam with your guitar/trombone/beat-boxing with my recorder/drum sticks/crappy plastic harmonica.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

nothing using CS specificially, though I hitched around Honduras for awhile.

Interests

struggling at being less depressed...or less manic, which you would think gives me about equal odds of sucess, right?

also:
going to lectures
reading
having philisophical discussions with folks
admiring hair on women (leg and underarm, specificially)
smoking more than I probably should
drinking tea
conversing about emotions

Interests:
animal advocacy
philosophy
music (popular and otherwise)
drum and bugle corps
tea
conversation
editing wikipedia
learning from you
hopefully teaching you something

• animals
• arts
• writing
• womens rights
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• vegan
• drinking
• reading
• music
• guitar
• atheism
• boxing
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

(this list is quite out of date--it was made when I wasn't traveling and seems pretty myopic right now. Not that I don't love these options. The books I currently have on my travels are On the Road, Tom Reagan's Animal Rights, and Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?)

by genre

[this is the "hip-hop" section]: dizzee rascal, brother ali, no lay, lady sovereign, wiley, DJ double e, riko, roll deep crew, kano, jammer, shystie, demon, the streets, low deep, doctor and davinche, JME, sway, ghetto, plan B, crazy titch, klashnekoff, mizz beats, dynasty crew, atmosphere, basement jaxx, big boi, dialated peoples, dj shadow, cut chemist, kanye west, n.w.a, wu-tang clan, wordsman, la familia, casual

[and here is the other stuff]
(in reverse alphabetical order)
xiu xiu, wolf parade, wilco, weezer (blue and pink), walkmen, velvet underground, tv on the radio, tom waits, talking heads, sunny day real estate, sufjan stevens, sleater-kinney, sigur ros, scissor sisters, rufus wainwright, the rapture, postal service, polysics, pedro the lion, pavement, out hud, neutral milk hotel, moneen, modest mouse, monor threat, the microphones, les savy fav, le tigre, julie ruin, jejune, iron and wine, innocence mission, gillian welche, fugazi, eric's trip, elliot smith, erlimart, decemberists, death cab for cutie, danielson familie, the cure, the cranberries, cibo matto, cat power, brian wilson, blonde readhead, bjork, ben harper, ben adn bruno, belle and sebastian, beck, the beatles, beastie boys, arcade fire, anthony and the johnstons, ...trail of dead, amps for christ

[this is the classical section]
romantic composers and russian composers,
particularly Wagner, Bartok, and Shostakovitch

I also enjoy jazz

Favorite TV Shows:

kill your t.v. (or maybe the commercials? I never know. half the time I hate the damn thing and then someone shows me something worth watching. Like short little movies in a sequence. very confusing.)

Farscape
Battlestar Galactica
Kids in the Hall
Star Trek (original series)
Aressted Development
Freaks and Geeks
Square One TV

Favorite Movies:
man bites dog
anything with Christopher Guest

Favorite Books:
anything by Wendell Berry (fascinating prose and lovely poetry)
The Case for Animal Rights by Thomas Reagan
Sacred Cows and Golden Geese by Greek and Greek
The China Study by T. Colin Campbell

whatever book I love at the momment.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

small orbs that I was catching in my hand and blowing them towards the band ...damn that's really hippy

Teach, Learn, Share

When I was a theist,
I spoke as a theist,
I understood as a theist,
I thought as a theist:
but when I became an atheist
I put theistic things away.

(please don't take umbridge at this, it's a commentary on how my views on life changed dramaticially when I moved from a self-identified Christian to an atheist)

My compassion and caring is for all beings--not just those who are cute-- so I do what I can.

No rights reserved on anything I write.
Feel free to borrow, copy, modify, and redistribute in any form.
If used directly, please credit myself as author-- the exact words in the exact order used are the only thing that I have claim to.

Intellectual property is theft.

if you've read everything else, you already know more than you really should without talking to me.