CURRENT MISSION

My CURRENT MISSION, in this one life on this green Earth, is to learn as much as possible, and to be as useful as possible to my family, loved ones, and friends--and to be active and proactive in this pursuit

PHILOSOPHY

My personal philosophy is succinctly expressed in my CURRENT MISSION.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

The question is ambiguous! Participate in the CouchSurfer universe?--seeing as that I have nowhere of my often to live, why, as a surfer of course! Hang ten, dude. Cowabunga.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None! The test, the quest, and all of the rest--now we begin!

Interests

• hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Oh my! If I could spend only one life, enconcsed in the chamber of hyperbolic time, there would still not be enough to ingest all the culture this world, past present and future, has to offer me. So for that reason, and because I indulge in these three categories (and other conjunctive categories) as widely and deeply as possible, I will simply list off some short lists

First list: THE PRO-LIST, LIST
a) fun to make
b) promotes organization
c) may promote efficiency

Second: BOOKS
a)Latin American pseudo surrealist fantasist fabulist, etc; Borges, Casares, Bolano, Marquez, Bombal, Cortazar, etc.
b) DON QUIXOTE IS THE ONE TRUE KNIGHT ERRANT
c) Petersburg, by Andrei Bely
d) any European history of the 20th century (you know, the good stuff, which is another way to say the "bad" stuff)
e)all the good dystopian classics, duh; especially WE by Zamyatin
d) So many others, and Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.

MOVIES:
instead of a list, I prefer here to state I enjoy all movies of any kind providing they are the work of an artist and not a capitalist. Recently I saw MY BEST FIEND, by Werner Herzog, and this kick-started a highly amusing Kinksi binge. And aside from that, I really, really, f***ing REALLY love Science fiction, in all it's mediums.

MUSIC:
The scene in NEW YORK and New Jersey RIGHT NOW!
Kraftverk, and other weird, ambient, eerie musics
Chicago House and OLD SKOOL disco
American 50's music, proto Rock n Roll
Motown and Soul
Factory Records--and much else of British Pop in the 80's and 90's
Nirvana, forever (and ever, and ever, and ever)
And all the Punk classics, young and old.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Man, I guess I don't know what to say. I've certainly seen some incredible things in my young life, but none are flashing through my mind right now... I've seen a building be demolished, the headlights of a speeding semi-truck from twenty feet away, trapped in a car perpindicular on an icy highway; I've seen a coyote, mutually alone in a snowy moonlit wood, and I've been hiking in the great Redwood forests along Highway 1 in California; my first memory of fear is being a toddler in the great San Francisco Earthquake, standing in a doorway watching my babysitter and my sister under a table across the room, and them screaming at me STAY WHERE YOU ARE, STAY THERE, while the whole world was crumbling apart around me; I've had my life saved more than once, and I've saved more than one life... but I just don't know what to say here... Ha ha! Just a bit ago, when I flew into Germany, I had a layover in Iceland and en route there was a HUGE full moon over the arctic pole, crystal clear skies, and as the moon fell, the sun rose, synchronized with our descent into Reykjavik... that was one of the most beautiful few hours of my life... Shit, I've never even been to the Grand Canyon! (note to James: What gives, man?)... But I will say I have some crazy stories and although I'm not necessarily a crazy storyteller, at the right time and place, I can tell them pretty good.