CURRENT MISSION

meet people with interesting stories

ABOUT ME

my family used to have money, then we were poor, and now they're doing alright again. I'd seen a whole gamma of people throughout my life, and I'd like to keep on meeting people who run through the gamma. I play a lot of music and make a lot of kungfu movies (http://youtube.com/watch?v=xBHHKmbXfQU), but my favorite thing in the world is to feel invincible when I'm in the company of people who are spontaneous and fearless. That's when magic happens. And from my experience, magic occurs pretty frequently.

PHILOSOPHY

"So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin' ass and celebratin' the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was." --molly ivins 1944-2007

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

come on by and lets be friends.

Interests

filmmaking and musicmaking, dancing, martial arts, girls, going to church.

• cats
• arts
• film making
• dancing
• running
• movies
• socializing
• magic
• music
• guitar
• martial arts

Music, Movies, and Books

music: david garza, cymande, nina simone, k'naan, devotchka, m. ward, mos def, mutantes, seu jorge, betty carter, chen ming zhang.
movies: last life in the universe, ping pong, do the right thing, turtles can fly, to live, the enigma of kaspar hauser (or anything werner herzog really), when we were kings, anything jackie chan, Frederic Back, George Washington, Stephen Chow, Crimson Hog (Porco Rosso), Mad Monkey Kungfu. great great human walter wang. hakuma and the traveling blade.
books: nabokov, paris review.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

went through a week without talking.

Teach, Learn, Share

when you choreograph a fight it's important to understand the distance between the two fighters and the drama should be reflected in the distance.

one of my favorite guitar scales is the gypsy scale (the F diminished run):
E-1-4
A-2-5
D-3-6
G-4-7
B-6-9
E-7-10-13

Countries I’ve Visited

Taiwan

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States