In Brief:
Trivia Expert / Bibliophile / Anglophile / Feminist / Thrift Store Connoisseur / Musician / Oxford Comma Enthusiast / Adventurer / former curator turned haberdasher

Weird facts:
I've been around the world in a previous career as the American director and representative of UK's oldest jewelry/Medal company...I'm a Freemason... A Kentucky Colonel (truly and a great story..), I've been on 3 History Channel Documentaries on Secret Societies. All of these things sound more interesting than they actually were.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to explore the world!

Interests

• documentaries
• wine
• thrifting
• trivia
• music
• adventure races
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Preferred news sources: Onion, NPR, Daily Show/Colbert, AJA

What I've read recently:
Wilde, Poe, Heinlein, Fitzgerald, Beatles Biographies, Lovecraft. Camus,Sagan, Esoteric literature, rare manuscripts, tea-leaves.

I'm an Oscar Wilde junky.

Artist and art I admire:
Things like Codex Seraphinianus, Hieronymus Bosch , Dali, Dr. Suess's secret art, Mondrian, Gustave Doré, Pre-Raphaelites, Beau Stanton, Pre-WWII German architecture painters from Austria, De Kooning. Francis Bacon, Goya.

I like just about everything except Red Hot Chili Peppers. I really, really, really don't like Anthony Kiedis.

Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes, Discovery, Slayer, Lamb of God, Haim, Steely Dan, B-52's, Beatles!!!, New Order, Stone Roses, Mars Volta, Beach House, Zombi, Isis, Hank, Stones, LCD Sound System, Wu Tang, Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Cooke, Arcade Fire, Beirut, Best Coast, CSS, Faith no More, The Smiths, The Cure, Merle, Willie, Waylon, Jones, Chopin, Mussorgsky, King Crimson, Nick Cave, Tabla Beat Science, Discovery, Nina Simone, Coheed and Cambria, Weezer, Hall and Oates, Daft Punk, Justice., Don Caballero, Delicate Steve, Buckethead, Neurosis, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Eno/Fripp. The Melvins, Helmet, Mr. Bungle, David Bowie, ELO, Thin Lizzy, Isley Brothers, Earth Wind and Fire, P-Funk, James Brown, P-funk, Pig Destroyer, Dillinger Escape Plan, Coltrane, Early Who.

Shows: Star Trek TNG fanatic
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Dr. Steve Brule, X-Files, Black Mirror, 80's Anime, Twilight Zone, Downton Abbey, Connections, Daily Show, Colbert Report, 70's and 80's BBC shows, Adult Swim, Early 90's MTV Cartoons... Aeon Flux, The Head, The Maxx, Beavis and Butthead.

I secretly like musicals. The Producers, Phantom of the Opera,...

Directors:
Wes Anderson, Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Jodorowsky, John Waters.

I'm a foodie. I have an acquired taste for weird Asian food.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was the first person in history to reproduce REAL Illuminati regalia from 1776,... truly.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Laughter, insight, and wine!