CURRENT MISSION

Really truly embrace people just as they are and cherish them.

ABOUT ME

I'm a creative wildman at heart. I have an awesome time coming up with ideas for short films and music videos. I've travelled quite a bit and really love random encounters and adventures. I've become a parent to a rad little one-year-old named Sam Xavier and he keeps my mind and heart focused on the wonder of this world and existence.

PHILOSOPHY

There's usually some disparity between what we aspire to and what we currently believe. I've had the chance to be around some great teachers who have said things like: "you are not your thoughts; your thoughts are not your experience." or encouraged to remain open and curious about what life brings. I really resonate with non-separation teachings... when you approach being from the stance that all is one it really makes a lot more sense and flows a lot more.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I offer up our guest bedroom and feel like I embody the global community spirit that is CS.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

couchsurfed through france, germany, poland, latvia, lithuania, estonia, russia, ..100percent success rate!

Interests

Bringing ideas to life in the form of short films. Nature.

• animals
• singing
• running
• walking
• boating
• movies
• music
• backpacking
• camping
• scuba diving
• swimming
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

The Big Lebowskiis one of the best movies ever made, i love general satire, and , Seven Samurai, this great Spanish film Cabeza de Vaca, that is a sweet one.
Southpark, daily show, family guy, first 7 seasons of the simpsons, aquateen hunger force, sealab, stand up comedy,
some directors: Uh, me, I like my stuff alot. also what's iz name, city of god and constant gardener guy, Tim Burton's done some good stuff. orson welles is good. Michael Mann,

i really like Frank Herbert as an author, and Vonnegut. BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS read it you'll need it.
Ed Abbey is great, if a bit fatalistic.
also non-fiction i feel is important.
i like the supernatural and paranormal, it's stho sthimulating!

music, I get pissed when i see people's lists that list every band ever formed (the assPomegranates, Rottencrotch, albino pig parade, the uranium salesmen collective), or when they refer to musicians by their first name only (i've seen Jack FIVE times, that's THIS many) because they've done the time and gotten to know them through their music. That's like playing John Madden football and feeling like you know the Dallas Cowboys (such a joker that Roger Clemens)

sooo i guess i can say i like a lot of diff. classic stuff from the 70's, 1770's that is! I seriously cannot sit here and list a bunch of genres or bands. wow, I learn something new about myself daily it seems.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I rode up mount Ventoux 26 km, summited it at 9 pm with the fog obscurring all, then rode down in the soup without a soul around for 10 miles. and suffered.

i was up in the wulingyuan area, which has unique limestone karsts that are like fingers sticking up in the air 1000 feet covered in trees and grass on top. we're talking vertical man. and the largest cavern in the world, pretty cool, did some off limit excursioning with my weakass headlamp. it was on a paved trail, but in the dark, pretty exciting. i even took a shit down there! hahaha. then again outside...fuckin plums. i really burned my body up the first day, 12 hours of solid stairclimbing (probably about 8000), descending(same), "shortcutting"(stupid) up a stream/waterfalls and general jungle, ending up in the busdrivers' camp where no one speaks english and having lost my map due to the "shortcut" and jungle tearing my cheapass backpack apart-- kept my wallet though thank god--getting dropped off at the top of mount Tianzi at 7pm, jumping mission impossible-esque onto the electric train as it rolls by to avoid 20 yuan fee, going the wrong way TWICE on a bus and having to get off and go back, running back to my hotel in the thickening twilight 4 miles to avoid wasting my paid night there...COMMA being attacked by fucking BEES and diving into the water to avoid stinging death after traversing cavemouth and coming face to face with said animals' hive. then, paying the fee, i know i know, and walking up to the "immortal's living lake", baifeng, and mistaking the depth for the boat trip price, so i decided to swim it. yeah, i'm just looking for trouble. they caught me allllmost around the bend from the dock and coaxed me back. the sign said they forbid swimming because the lake's 72 meters deep. the boatride is part of the entrance fee so i got on and met a guy who just got back from sactown CA who translated some of the audio (megaphone screeching in my face) tour, talking about the chick who waits all day on a boat to sing to the passing tourists, and then, after the forboding tone in the guide's voice caused silence to descend, we entered the most dangerous part of the lake. 110 meters. oh, on the way out i snuck back behind this pumpshed and walked UNDER part of the lake (cuz it's cradled up there in the karsts) with the water dripping down, streaming really, and the slick ambiant light making a very scintillating scene. so that was one day.

Teach, Learn, Share

i've covered half the world in the last three months and discovered that people are good, to the core, and it's just these institutions and systems of control that make us make war on each other. it seems unfathomable to me here and now to even consider division between humans on this planet. Countries are paper-thin excuses for nationalism and separation: for conflict.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, France, Mongolia, Russian Federation

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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