CURRENT MISSION

Be happy every day.

ABOUT ME

I'm a Salt Lake City native, and I currently live with my partner, Micah, my little brother, Ben, and his girlfriend, Manda. We have two shiba inus, Shinji and Yuki, and one pet turtle, Mr. Duncan Bojangles. And we're superstars.

PHILOSOPHY

The Divine Image

To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
All pray in their distress;
And to these virtues of of delight
Return their thankfulness.

For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
Is God, our father dear,
And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
Is Man, his child and care.

For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity a human face,
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.

Then every man, of every clime,
That prays in his distress,
Prays to the human form divine,
Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.

--William Blake

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We're just recently getting involved with couch surfing, and still trying to figure out how we want to participate.

Interests

I love art, music, literature, film, photography, philosophy, religion, psychology, videogames, cooking, dogs, nature, hiking, travel, and being involved in the community.

• pets
• dogs
• arts
• books
• literature
• photography
• concerts
• dining
• cooking
• raw food
• dieting
• movies
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• hiking
• camping
• surfing
• skiing
• sports
• history
• psychology
• religion
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies - Margaret, Disconnect, Inception, Beauty and the Beast, Last of the Mohicans, Great Expectations, Wit, The Bourne Identity, Amelie, Room with a View, X-Men, Twelfth Night, Shopgirl, Legend, Children of Men, Mansfield Park, The Constant Gardener, Lord of the Rings, Hero, Gattaca, Howl's Moving Castle, Life is Beautiful, The Princess and the Warrior, Pride and Prejudice, Paris Je Taime, The Fountain, Once, The Fall, Where the Wild Things Are, Blue, White, and Red

Books - The Alchemist, The Four Loves, Paradise Lost, Songs of Innocence and Experience, Les Miserables, Speaker for the Dead, Frankenstein, The Little Prince, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Where the Wild Things Are, The Chronicles of Narnia, Naussica

Music - Travis, Muse, Arcade Fire, Damien Rice, Bon Iver, Passion Pit, Miike Snow, William Fitzsimmons, Moby, Postal Service, Paper Route, Coldplay, Stars, Imogen Heap, Kate Havnevik, Mandalay, Regina Spektor, Bic Runga, Dianna Krall, Dianne Reeves, Nat King Cole, Jason Robert Brown, Eric Whitacre, Patrick Doyle, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Mozart

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Some of the most amazing things I've seen include the Arc de Triomphe, Niagra Falls, Swan Lake at the Bolshoi, Castle Neuschwanstein, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the White House, the Louvre, Old Faithful, Red Square and Saint Basil's Cathedral, Michelangelo's David, the Golden Gate Bridge, Mount Rushmore, and the Eiffel Tower.

Locally, I think the Salt Lake Temple, the Mormon Tabernacle, the Great Salt Lake, the Spiral Jetty, Gilgal Gardens, Ensign Peak, the Wasatch Mountains, and the pure white salt flats are pretty amazing. We also have a nice Salt Lake City Library, the Utah Museum of Fine Art, the Utah Museum of Natural History, and the Clarke Planetarium. Salt Lake has a number of event centers that host amazing concerts. We are home to the Utah Jazz, and have some great sports centers as well. Awesome camping, hiking, and skiing are only minutes from Salt Lake.

Also, I can count to one.

Teach, Learn, Share

Micah and I get really excited about movies, music, and books, and someday we hope to have our own work published. I love dogs, and I can tell you all about positive training and the raw food diet for pets. I am also kind of a nerd, and pretty big into videogames. Oh, and if you want to know about the Mormons, I'm your man. I'm also gay, so if you would like, we can talk about the gayness.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belarus, Russian Federation, United States

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