CURRENT MISSION

I want to travel, meet people, explore, and see this beautiful country

ABOUT ME

I love to daydream, explore, learn and see new things. I try to surround myself with people who impress and inspire me.

PHILOSOPHY

Know who you are! Only when you know yourself can you make real true connections with others.

Interests

Music, sunshine, the Jersey Shore, the desert, aviation, construction, short stories, psychadelic and western art, wildlife, river rafting, road trips, being alone in nature, becoming that one teacher that students always remember inspired them to be their best.

• wildlife
• arts
• aviation
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• teaching
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Bob Dylan, modest mouse, pepper, g. love, the pixies, nine inch nails, dusty springfield, woody guthrie, arlo guthrie, cold war kids, coco rosie, bright eyes, cake, incubus, red hot chili peppers, lou reed, old crow medicine show, soul coughing, sublime, ween, railroad earth, tom petty, oysterhead, jimmy eat world, the dandy warhols, guster, mindless self indulgence, Sixx am, MGMT
Movies:
Big fish, Pleasantville, Sin City, Fear and Loathing, Snatch, Pi, Fight Club, The Cider House Rules, Nightmare Before Christmas, A Beautiful Mind, Across the Universe, American Beauty, Forrest Gump, Trainspotting, A Clockwork Orange, Easy Rider, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Vanilla Sky, Factory Girl, Girl Interupted, Gia, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1&2, The Wizard of OZ, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Citizen Kane, Indiana Jones (all of them), The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Annie Hall, Alice's Restaurant, Garden State, American Graffiti, Boondock Saints, Little Miss Sunshine, The Atomic Cafe, The Royal Tenenbaums
Books:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The World According to Garp, Kingdom of Fear, Brave New World, The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Choke, Fight Club, My Antonia, Wizard of OZ, Dr. Zhivago, Heart of Darkness, A Clockwork Orange, Wild Animus, Fahrenheit 451, East of Eden, The Beautiful and the Damned, The Crack-Up, Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race, I Know This Much is True, House of Sand and Fog, Foop, Oedipus Rex, To Kill a Mockingbird, Catch-22, Loser's Club, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Standing amongst the ruins of ancient Greece; seeing my brother fully recover from open heart surgery