CURRENT MISSION

Rehearse for revolution through play (also open to better ideas)

ABOUT ME

I have just finished university, writing plays, drawing satirical maps, putting on shows, getting involved with local campaigns against coal power etc. I'm not going to say life couldn't be better- because it could be if we all lived in a utopia where there was no distinction between work and fun, everyone got to pursue whatever fulfilled them, and people felt content without the help of anti-depressants and reality tv (yes, reality tv would not exist in my utopia, sorry).

PHILOSOPHY

I think Robert Ingersoll had it pretty well worked out: "Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so." As long as happiness for you isn't burning fossil fuels for fun and using old growth forest as toilet paper, in which case your happiness is going to make future generations rather depressed.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Found out about it through more well traveled former housemates. Have both hosted and surferoed

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far, excellent- a great communal way for people to travel outside the torturous tourist tourniquet! Such a nice idea, to welcome other people into your home, and for the gift to be reciprocated all over the world.

Interests

Writing plays, novels, opinion pieces, comedy debates, alternative histories of the world (Newt Gingrich does it too- not that I like Newt Gingrich, he's got some problems), also drawing, printmaking (lino cuts, etching), making participatory board games about climate change that show how the nation-state system is failing us, performing as a fake mining magnate and meeting politicians

• writing
• literature
• board games
• tv
• traveling
• drawing
• cartography

Music, Movies, and Books

Authors/Playwrights: Vladimir Mayakovsky, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, David Graeber, Silvia Federici, Raoul Vaneigem
Composers: Dmitri Shostakovich, Bela Bartok, Astor Piazzolla, Gustav Mahler, Sergei Prokofiev, Ellen Zwilich
Artists: Kathe Kollwitz, Ana Mendieta, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, the Situationists
Movies: Pan's Labyrinth, No Man's Land, Underground

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Visited the prime minister of Australia onstage on the night of his election in 2013 in character as a fake mining magnate.

Teach, Learn, Share

Quiero aprender mas sobre la historia de la resistencia politica y el teatro radical en Latinoamerica,y tambien quiero mejorar mi espanol.

I could teach people how to make lino cuts and etchings

I would like to learn more about Latin American literature social movements and theatre, and to speak better Spanish.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Laos, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Bhutan, Venezuela

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