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Overview

  • 5 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Italian, Spanish
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Digital Marketing/Musician/Geek
  • University, BS Business/Marketing
  • From Cleveland
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

I want to experience other cultures, people, languages & cuisines.

ABOUT ME

Friendly. Entrepreneur. Musician. Geek. Humorous. Beer drinking. Traveling.

Working hard. Making music. Enjoying life. Planning my transcontinental existence. Still trying to figure out how I can give back to humanity in my own way.

PHILOSOPHY

Push boundaries.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

So far i've contributed money. Once I have a couch available I will be opening it up to surfers and paying back to the community. I can also help with giving free guitar lessons to anyone who cares to learn. I can also cook and clean!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Portugal & Naples.

Interests

reading, music, guitar, food, wine, beer, languages, history, people, conversation, smiles, friendship

  • dining
  • cooking
  • wine
  • beer
  • drinking
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • drums
  • business
  • entrepreneurship
  • history
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Don't really harp on one author or another. Some ones i've enjoyed are Castaneda, Orwell, Chomsky, Kafka, Burroughs, random astrological books, new-age kind of stuff, audio engineering books and other oddities.

Movies: My tastes range from sci-fi to foreign flicks to comedy to psychological thrillers. Some favs: Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, Lost Highway, Dr Strangelove, Neverending Story, Pulp Fiction, Lil shop of Horrors, Big Trouble in Little China, Princess Bride, Exit through the Gift shop, Dark Crystal, Fish Called Wanda, La Mala Educacion

Music: jazz, rock, prog, classical, punk, disco, blues, funk, electronic, experimental noise.

Good stuff: Mastodon, Mars Volta, King Crimson, Aphex Twin, Aesop Rock, De Facto, Mozart, Op Ivy, Fugazi, Battles, Bowie, Don Cabellero, Ratatat, Dave Brubeck, Charles Bronson, Depeche Mode, Queens of the Stone Age, Botch, Converge, Blonde Redhead

Seinfeld, Family Guy, Simpsons, Bourdain, Lost, Conchords. Breaking Bad, House of Cards, Mad Men...etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've traveled Europe twice and met a ton of amazing people.

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to learn languages, as many as I can..anything about history, programming...etc.

I can teach guitar/drums, how to market your business, some Italian.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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