ABOUT ME

I'm a semi-professional student with aspirations of being an under-paid poet. I love traveling and meeting other creative people who wish to make art of any kind. Festivals and concerts are kind of my bag; I also love a good drum circle! I'm a pacifist who believes very strongly in non-violent communication. Of course I always love good conversation as well... I look forward to staying on your couch sometime :)

PHILOSOPHY

I've been trying to reach a point of total harmonious bliss with all of my surroundings, from the woods behind my house, to the grass in my front yard, to the neighbor giving me a nasty look mumblin' something about communists! My goals in life are simply to co-exist, learn what I can, Teach what I can, Have some good adventures, love, and call it a day. I'm a firm believer in keeping money as far out my life as possible while still living in the foolish realities of the default world. Money complicates far too much, and while it is probably a necessary evil, I'd rather not let it rule my conscience. I sell nothing to anyone and believe in a gift economy, I buy only what I must or do without.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I seem to end up with folks on my couch fairly often, Just give me a heads up! I also find myself on the couches of others often enough...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

CouchSurfing is how I spent my teens, never anyhting this organized though, what with a website and all... You know just regular old CouchSurfin'!

Interests

Writing, Reading, Painting, Poetry, Non-Fiction, Drums, Guitars, Psychonauts, TheGratefulDead, Herb, SchoolBuses, Hiking, Packing, Swimming, HomeBrew, Cooking, MakingClothing,

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• concerts
• festivals
• cooking
• reading
• traveling
• homebrewing
• painting
• drums
• hiking
• swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

where to begin

Music-
Bob Marley and the Wailers, Nirvana, The Dead, 311, Pete Tosh, Bob Weir and Ratdog, DubConscious, Moe., P Groove, P Funk, Flaming Lips, Les Claypool, Sly and the fam, Hot Tuna, Widespread Panic, Phil and friends, Oteil and the peacemakers, The Delfonics, Bobby Womack, Damien Marley, James Brown(mid 60's funk), Arlo Guthrie, Country Joe and the Fish, Sublime, Rancid, Operation Ivy, Bad Religion, Black Flag, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors,The Ziggens, Social D, Tenacious D, Westside Connection, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, Warren Zevon, Marilyn Manson, Bob Dylan, some Stones, Quick silver messanger service, Outkast, Van Morrison, Lennon on his own (and post-India trip beatles), System Of A Down, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Long Beach Dub, The MC5, Beck, Rage Against the Machine, the Who, Richie Havens, Ben Harper, Cypress Hill, Wu-tang clan,

Movies-
Most Tarantino flicks, Requiem for a Dream, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Where the buffalo roam, Breakfast with Hunter, Halloween, Wet Hot American Summer, American History x, Dig, The Big Lebowski, All the Guy Richie flicks, Very Bad Things, Boondock Saints, Palindromes, Kids, Romper Stomper, Football Factory, Green Street Hooligans, all the Monty Python films, Boyz n tha hood, The Motorcycle Diaries, Eternal Sunshine, Bongwater, Swingers, Old Sonny Chiba and Bruce Lee kung fu movies, all the Cheech and Chongs except that stupid medieval one, Mallrats, Clerks 1 and 2, and so on...

Books-
basically anyhting by Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolf, Ken Kesey, Gary Snyder, or Vonnegut

Teach, Learn, Share

Simplify, Give up on money and embrace gifting... Afterall everyone loves a gift!