CURRENT MISSION

"Live without dead time"

ABOUT ME

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PHILOSOPHY

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Thus far I've hosted a slew of incredibly interesting people, have similarly been hosted by warm and generous people, and I talk up CS whenever possible. I joined up with the CS theme camp and Burning Man, and attend a meeting every now and then...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Brilliant.
- Our first guest was César the world-walker, which was a perfect introduction to what CS was all about. - At one point we hosted a lady for a month after she was laid-off from her job.
As far as being hosted.. I've experienced
punk shows in squat houses,
home-made schnapps,
sweet old ladies who want to feed you cake,
loads of traditional home-cooked meals,
a man who calls flowers "botanical corpses,"
and I was taught the finer points of hitch-hiking.

Interests

linguistics, cooking, crocheting, universals vs. relativity, climbing, folklore, dogs, salvaging, beaches, insects, sketching, theatre, social cognition,

• dogs
• insects
• folklore
• sketching
• cooking
• nightlife
• flowers
• knitting
• hiking
• camping
• rock climbing
• hitchhiking
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Listen: Animal Collective, Aqueduct, Arcade Fire, Belle & Sebastian, Billie Holiday, Blur, Buena Vista Social Club, Cat Power, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, David Bowie, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Dr. Dog, Elliot Smith, Etta James, Edward Sharpe, The Faint, Fleet Foxes, Ghostland Observatory, Gorillaz, Grandaddy, Interpol, Iron & Wine, James Brown, Joanna Newsome, Justice, Led Zepplin, Lightening Hopkins, MGMT, Modest Mouse, Outcast, Otis Redding, Radiohead, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Spoon, The Strokes, The Unicorns, The Veils, The White Stripes, Wolf Parade, Yeasayer, The XX

Watch: The Adventures of Little Nemo, Willow, Never Ending Story, Charlie Kaufman, Kevin Smith, Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, Miyazaki, ... Tuvalu, Breaking the Waves, Pan's Labyrinth, High Art, Delicatessen, Let the Right One In

Read: Baudelaire, Lewis Carroll, folklore and fairytales, Hesse, Huxley, Kafka, C.S. Lewis, Lorca, Orwell, Marquez, Murakami, Neruda, Rimbaud, Salinger, Dr. Suess, Tennessee Williams, Pullman

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

spent the night on the beach, ridden inside a giant luminescent snail through the desert, finished undergrad, taught english to austrian highschoolers in a village in the alps, followed a boy to california, seen the pixies live, swung from a trapeze bar...

Teach, Learn, Share

hmm.. I can do knitting, map out a face for a sketch, and point out some interesting local nightlife joints and brunch spots.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, France, Germany, United States