CURRENT MISSION

I need to reach out, to connect, to meet bold people with bold personalities who never yawn or say a boring thing, who want - they want everything at once and burn, burn, burn, like yellow roman candles exploding like stars across the stars

ABOUT ME

i live in New York City, struggling and living and loving and doing what I can to scratch out my little name on the big granite surface of humanity. I have recently become a out-of-work poet, a beatnik and a hopeless hoper and romantic with all the drunken lives passing on the streets and the clip-clop tread of our souls and smiles.

i act. I do not mean only as hamlet but as hamlet could not, with strident steps that often leave me in situations in over my head. You should always strive for this, to be in too deep than not in at all.

i love music, i love language, i love people who can draw a line in the sand and stand with their convictions and a smile while all sorts of stones are hurled at them from every possible angle.

I draw. I've always loved drawing. If this is not truth then show me where you keep your treasonous for I belong with them.

I'm very funny, very charming. I aspire to be David Bowie, Charlie CHaplin, John Singer Sargent and Rainer Maria Rilke all rolled in one.

show me.

PHILOSOPHY

"Nothing is built in stone, it is all built in sand; but we must build as if sand were stone"
~Jorge Luis Borges

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

i am in love with traveling. you too?

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

treading new water

Interests

look above. I love people. Books. Movies (though I may be the harshest critic you've ever met). I've recently taken up writing too. Beginners luck hasn't been so bad.

• writing
• books
• movies
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• sailing
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Wide Sargasso Sea- Jean Rhys
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Siddhartha - Hermen Hesse

The Fall, Fight Club, Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino!), RAshomon (I really like Akira Kurosawa), Pirates of the Caribbean, Being There (PETER SELLARS!)

Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, David Bowie, Sigur Ros, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Radiohead (!), The Mars Volta (!), Saul Williams, Tupac Shakur, Rolling Stones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

New York City
Crater Lake, Oregon
Seattle, Washington
Los Angeles, CA
San FRancisco, CA
Carmel-on-the-Sea, CA
the plains stretching from the Mississippi river through Iowa farm, Nebraska prairie, Colorado Mountain, Utah red rock, California desert and Pacific Sea.

I've seen poverty stricken ghettos. I've seen college frat destruction. I've seen neighborhoods overlooking the most beautiful country side in the northeast catskills. I've seen the Hudson river, land of Rip Van Winkle. Land of Mark Twain. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, along the river Huckleberry Finn set sail. I've seen the prettiest blue water you'll ever see. I've seen the most frightening lightning without ever hearing a sound.

a couple days ago I ran and caught a bus and held its' doors open so that a little old lady could get on. She said to me " We need more people like you in the world"

I could have died right there and been a happy man.

Teach, Learn, Share

..."You see, on Tralfamadore the Tralfamadorians laugh in your face with the Earthling's idea of time. To the Earthlings, time is a series of successive moments leading one into another, like pearls on a string, and when one disappears it is gone forever. To the Tralfamadorians, time looks like the rocky mountains - you see all of them at once, and where one moment exists next to another moment and you see the vast stretch of their existence. A funeral is a joke for a Tralfamadorian, because though in this moment the body may be dead they will simply say "things don't look so good now." They realize that in another moment somewhere else this body is completely vibrant, alive...fine. So it goes."
~Kurt Vonnegut

what would happen if we stop seeing the world as successive movements on a string and more like a vast stretch of mountains, or a flowing river, where the point is not where we're going but what the view looks like from here?