CURRENT MISSION

To make my artistic mark that will outlive my lifetime, use my abilities to further the cause of true justice and human rights, and experience as much as possible within this lifetime.

ABOUT ME

Hmmm, you've probably already got a good idea of what I'm like just from reading my likes and dislikes, my career, etc. But if I were going to pick adjectives to describe myself, I'd say (or people have told me that) I'm intense, original, ultra-sensitive, perceptive, creative, intellectual, eccentric, passionate, adventuresome, analytical, bohemian, charismatic, warm and very depthful and loyal.

PHILOSOPHY

This is difficult because I have many personal philosophies, but I guess the overriding one is to learn as much as possible from your own experiences in order to have empathy for someone else's. Also, in an enlightened and humane society, there's no such thing as "It's not my problem."

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I once got stuck in France for two days due to a flight delay, and this really sweet elderly French couple took me in! They spoke not a word of English, but I speak some French and used a translation dictionary they referred to as "mon bible". They really saved me when I was in a terrible jam, and I'll always be grateful to them!

兴趣

Writing, acting, theater, film, music (very into indie garage rock and punk, also classic jazz, reggae, classical, Britpop and classic rock), literature, activism (anti-war, human rights, animal rights, ecomonic equality, etc.), travel (duh!), singing & songwriting, psychology/analysis, history, world cultures, environmental awareness, vegetarianism, astrology and divination and philosophy.

• animals
• writing
• literature
• singing
• theater
• acting
• human rights
• reading
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• history
• psychology

音乐、电影和书籍

Movies-Favorite films include Amadeus, Dogville, Pi, A Woman Under the Influence, The Crying Game, My Own Private Idaho, Mullholland Drive, The Elephant Man, Brazil, A Clockwork Orange, The Brood, Imitation of Life, Full Metal Jacket, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, The Birds, Marnie, East of Eden, My Left Foot, M...the list goes on and on!

Music-Blur (pre-"Think Tank"), Graham Coxon, Bloc Party, The Libertines/Babyshambles, The White Stripes, Beck, The Star Spangles, early Tori Amos, Tracy Chapman, Razorlight, The Strokes, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Pixies, The Breeders, The Clash, Patty Smith, The New York Dolls, The Sex Pistols, Iggy & The Stooges, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, early Roling Stones, Beatles, Bob Marley, Charlie Parker, Ornette Coleman, Mozart, Chopin...too much to list here!

Books-favorite writers include James Baldwin, Aldous Huxley, Sylvia Plath, Herman Hesse, George Orwell, John Kennedy Toole, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, Frank Herbert, Tom Robbins, Barbarah Ehrenreich, Noam Chomsky, Katherine Dunne, Patrick Susskind, J.T. Leroy, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassaday, Albert Camus, John-Paul Sartre, Anthony Burgess, Alice Walker, Morgan Lywellyn and Ursula K. LeGuin, to name but a few.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Hmmm...this would be really hard to answer! I've had many amazing experiences. One that I hold particularly close to my heart is getting to know a group of street children in Morocco, them dinner, and taking them around the medina markets to buy them shoes. I also got to attend a real Moroccan wedding on that same trip! Priceless memories.