ABOUT ME

I am a tuba player. That may sound kind of boring to most people, but allow me to offer the following link as proof that it isn't:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y75ryZC8LB0

PHILOSOPHY

"A New Earth" by Elkhart Tolle

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

CS has been quite useful for me as far as deciding where I wanted to go to school for my Master's. So, I guess I would say that I use CS for educational purposes.

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
300, 40 Year Old Virgin, The 5th Element, Apocalypto, Being John Malkovich, The Big Lebowski, The Blues Brothers, Borat, The Dark Crystal, The Dark Knight, Deja Vu, Dogma, Fight Club, Forrest Gump, The Fountain, Get Smart, Hot Shots 1 & 2, Inside Man, Kung-Fu Hustle, The Last of the Mohicans, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Lucky Number Sleven, Man on Fire, The Matrix Trilogy, Mission Impossible 1, 2, and 3, Moulin Rouge, Old School, Pan's Labyrinth, Phonebooth, The Princess Bride, Romeo and Juliet, Shaolin Soccer, Snatch, Star Wars Episodes 1-6 (Episodes 1 and 2 could have been better, but they were essential to the storyline), Stardust, Suicide Kings (best movie EVER!!!), Transformers, V for Vendetta, What Dreams May Come, X-Men 1 and 2

Music:
Alan Selvestri, Alien Ant Farm, Arvo Pärt, Balkan Beat Box, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Brian Wolff, The Cinematic Orchestra, Dredg, Eric Whitacre, Gravity!, Gruvis Malt, Howard Shore, James Horner, John Williams (but just because of Star Wars), Jon Sass, Mars Volta, Modest Mouse, Onesidezero, Øystein Baadsvik, PDQ Bach, Primus, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ronan Hardiman, Sigur Ros, Stone Temple Pilots, System of a Down, Tool, Victor Wooten ... and anything else that catches my fancy

Books:
Angels and Demons, The DaVinci Code, Fight Club, Harry Potter, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Snow Crash, A New Earth