CURRENT MISSION

to sprinkle a little awesome everywhere i go. my ultimate goal is to touch foot on every continent. that means you antartica!

ABOUT ME

i'm not entirely sure how to go about filling this out. i like telling people about myself, not writing about it. so, i'm going to list some of my favorite passages from books here and i think it'll give you an idea of "me".

Skinny Legs And All by Tom Robbins:
"What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it may be levity."

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins:
"Our individuality is all, all that we have. There are those that barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route."
another gem from Jitterbug Perfume:
"Reality is subjective and there's an unenlightened tendency in this culture to regard something as 'important' only if 'tis sober and severe. Sure, and still, you're right about your Cheerful Dumb, only they're not so much happy as lobotomized. But your Gloomy Smart are just as ridiculous. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try and cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form o' self-indulgence."

"When I want for you what you want for you, then I truly love you. When I want for you what I want for me, then I am loving Me through you.
So, too, by the same measure, can you determine whether others love you, and whether you truly love others. For love chooses naught for itself, but only seeks to make possible the choices of the beloved other."
-Neale Donald Walsch

Что привело меня на Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

i'm pretty new to this at this time, but when i get back to memphis, i fully intend to have rooms and couches galore available for the weary traveler. i'd also like the chance to show people that memphis isn't the scary place that some people make it out to be, but an incredible place full of rich history of all kinds, including musical.

Интересы

music, live music, reading, getting to know people, drinking whiskey and saying yes to a vast majority of the things that come my way.

• culture
• writing
• books
• perfumes
• drinking
• politics
• reading
• music
• live music
• history

Музыка, кино и книги

books: my 2 favorite hanks - miller and bukowski. tom robbins. anything that's smart with a sense of humor.

music: i will try ANYTHING on for size, but my top 4 of all time are (in no particular order): the wedding present/cinerama, the replacements/paul westerberg, ryan adams/whiskeytown and chuck prophet.

Где я побывал(-а)

France, Ireland, Netherlands

Где я жил(-а)

United Kingdom, United States