CURRENT MISSION

To be real. live and consume. the arts and the smarts. To meet you and your friends

ABOUT ME

From Kentucky, Born in Georgia, Moved to Tennessee. Lookin to do some travels and gain some life experience. Need a place to stay? Hit me up, and I'll see what I can do. I'm a student/musician/freelance writer for online and print magazines around the country. I make experimental folk music. Looking to meet different folk and just travel the country and others as soon as possible - and hopefully you share similar ideals.

PHILOSOPHY

How do I say this without coming off derivitave and mundane? I suppose I just live. whether it be reading a book or traveling through a city, it's all living to me - and no form is more valid than the other. I live for knowledge, yet I live for experience. I live my life because potential is boundless, nothing will hold us back as people unless you let it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Growing! Couchsurfing is ridiculous - I've met people from all walks of life that have changed my mind about alot of things/people. You should give it a go around, you won't regret it.

Interests

film.new journalism.jean-paul sartre.minimalism.futurism.duchamp.travel.meeting new folk.rural kentucky and tennessee.tropicalia.brazil.portuguese.psychedelia.record collecting.turntable collecting.analog synthesis.non-fiction.tom wolfe.painting(new at it!).pocket billiards.first pressings of books.constructive criticism.changing the system within the system.you.

• arts
• culture
• writing
• books
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• billiards
• restoration
• painting
• minimalism
• music
• folk music
• freelancing
• history
• journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

music - free jazz (ayler, sun ra, cecil taylor, david murray) experimental folk (devendra banhart, akron/family, david thomas broughton), minimalist (philip glass, fennesz, steve reich), avant-garde (karlheinz stockhausen, john cage)

film- french new wave, neo-realism - godard, malle, linklater, chabrol, wertmuller, fellini, ford.

books - jean-paul sartre, albert camus, douglas coupland, norman mailier, dan wakefield, joan didion

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

one? really, just one? hopefully spend time with you and learn from you!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you about:

American Popular Studies and Culture
Avant-Garde Music
Record Collecting
Playing just about any instrument with Strings
Circuit Bending
Turntable restoration
French Cinema in the 1950's and 1960's
Rural Kentucky and Tennessee History

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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