CURRENT MISSION

Adventure seeking, environmentalism, music worshipping

ABOUT ME

ALERT! - My reply rating is low but that does not mean I ignore them. Most everyone who has messaged me did so either the day of or a day before they needed to be here and most of the time that is too short notice for me. But message me anyway because there is a chance that it would be no problem at all. All summer I was not in a position to host much of the time. Anyway thats that. Feel free to message no matter what the circumstance and I will do my best to write back even if it is short notice.

I'm a city boy who has claimed the Smoky Mountains as home. I embrace all aspects of the scrappy mountain/river outlaw culture that Knoxville has created for itself. I make a yearly pseudo-religious pilgrimage to Bonnaroo and I rock out to the fullest.

I am considerate and respectful. I embrace my inner philosopher. In my opinion meeting new people, going new places, and having new, fun, and sometimes absurd experiences are the various spices of life. I try to keep my life spicy.

I am also the type of guy who would give you the shirt off my back if you needed it. I'm all about sharing and the giving of gifts.

PHILOSOPHY

Z(n) = Z(n-1)^2 + c

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I just registered to find a couch for an upcoming trip to the Windy City, but I'm down to host people. I have a really truly awesome apartment in Knoxville located right near the city in the middle of a botanical garden.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

One trip to Chi-town (well Evanston really but who cares.)

Interessen

Music, hiking, music, people, dancing, funky things (be it music, cool offbeat stores/restaurants, basically anything but funky feet - which I have two of), jokes and jokes and jokes, stories, legends, crystals (mineral specimens/stable chemicals), physics, metaphysics, listening, ranting, raving, divinity, symmetry, fractals. Plants.

• culture
• dancing
• gardening
• music
• hiking
• astronomy
• divinity
• geology
• history
• philosophy
• physics
• psychology
• sociology
• mountains

Musik, Filme und Bücher

Books - Guns Germs and Steel, Breaking Open the Head, On the Road, A Confederacy of Dunces, Siddhartha, Cannery Row, Cosmos

Music - Grateful Dead, Rush, Iron Maiden, Tool, Chromeo, more or less anything George Clinton, Robert Plant & Allison Krauss, bluegrass, old time mountain music, and much more

Movies - I Heart Huckabees, Chinatown, Jeremiah Johnson, Equilibrium, Akira, tons really

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

Backpacked minimalist/survivalist style for 120 days consecutively in Southern Utah, making fires out of several kinds of sticks, a rock, and a piece of parachute cord.

Lehren, lernen, teilen

I am a trained fractal geometer and statistician. I can teach those things very well.

I have a background in history, sociology, psychology, philosophy, as well as some geology and astronomy.