CURRENT MISSION

Seeking uncommon sense amongst normalized absurdity

ABOUT ME

I am insatiably infatuated with music and travel, and seek to share my love of both! Meeting all kinds of people, for all kinds of reasons, especially those who challenge me, make me think, teach me and make for good company continues to be the most fulfilling and motivating aspect of my life.

People describe me as deliberate, outgoing, spontaneous and adventurous. I am not capricious about my living conditions, but I prefer neatness to disorder and simplicity to clutter. I am haunted by inaction; I am enslaved by words and set free by demeanor. I live for moments in which the awkward betrays the true.

I dream optimistically of apocalypse and poorly lit disasters.

PHILOSOPHY

It is irrational to scoff. Especially at irrationality.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Making surfable waves.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I gots it.

Interests

Adventure! Live music, the lost art of meaningful conversation, playing pool, forming connections, frisbee, foosball, camping, hiking, cooking, chess, subtlety, writing, philosophy, ethics, evolutionary biology, cosmology/astronomy, sociology, classical literature, ancient civilizations, linguistics and communication, nature, poetry, exploring the nature of emotion and the profundity of semantics.

• arts
• writing
• literature
• poetry
• ethics
• dining
• cooking
• chess
• traveling
• billiards
• music
• live music
• hiking
• camping
• archery
• astronomy
• biology
• sociology
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Anything and everything by Kubrick and Chan-wook. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, There Will Be Blood, 12 Monkeys, Pan's Labyrinth, The Departed, Anchorman, Into The Wild, 9.

Music: MF Doom, Bon Iver, Jurassic 5, Gift of Gab, Aesop Rock, Sunset Rubdown, Man Man, Astronautalis, The Black Keys, Led Zeppelin, Radio Citizen, Emancipator, Lykke Li, Neutral Milk Hotel, Gogol Bordello, Jamiroquai, Gil Scott Heron, Dessa, alt-J, LCD Soundsystem, Fiona Apple, Otis Redding, Balkan Beat Box, Paranoid Castle, anything involving Alexander Ebert (and many, many, many more).

Books: H.D. Thoreau, R.W. Emerson, N. Chomsky, J. Kerouac, C. Palahniuk, J. Verne, P.K. Dick, Homer, Lao Tzu, N. Stephenson, W. Shakespeare, O. Wilde, M. Twain, G. Orwell, D. Adams, Plato.

Currently reading: "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have shared street food with instant friends, just add Jalisco's pouring rain. I have slept under the stars through the Pacific Northwest's breathtaking summers, wondering whether the vastness of the universe makes us insignificant or extraordinary. I have kissed salty lips on powdered sugar beaches.

Teach, Learn, Share

If you need help proofing or editing any piece of writing, I'd be more than happy to take a look!

If you can teach me about anything, don't hesitate to do so. I'm especially interested in urban and natural foraging, permaculture, archery, and cooking.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Cambodia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany, United States

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