CURRENT MISSION

To be the meaning of life

ABOUT ME

I challenge myself to discover and rediscover the marvels and intricacies of this world.

Music is my oxygen.

I can spot a puppy dog from a mile away like I have radar.

PHILOSOPHY

It is presumptuous for man to think of himself as a discrete entity. The energy in each person or thing or idea freely exchanges with the energy throughout space and time. One's life is but a tiny swirl of matter in a maelstrom of this energy. So join it and enjoy it.

Interests

constellations, banjo picking, ultimate frisbee, fresh baked bread

• animals
• dogs
• music
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

The Science of Sleep, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Locke, Broken Circle Breakdown, Wes Anderson, Christopher Nolan and Jean Pierre Jeunet films, I'm Not There, Old Joy, Good Night and Good Luck, Donnie Darko, I Heart Huckabees, Children of Men, Everything is Illuminated, Searching for Sugar Man, Peaky Blinders

Milky Chance, Maitre Gims, Chris Bathgate, Frontier Ruckus, Magnolia Electric Company, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fleet Foxes, The Lumineers, Of Monsters & Men, Sean Hayes, Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Ros, Sufjan Stevens, Adem, Iron & Wine, Badly Drawn Boy, Sun Kil Moon, The Mountain Goats, the many incarnations of Will Oldham, Bright Eyes, Devendra Banhart, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, Jethro Tull, Beck, Radiohead, Eels, The Arcade Fire, The Decemberists, Wolfmother, Gnarls Barkley
Anything local and live

Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Little Prince, Adam's Task, 1491 and 1493

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spent the night in a 400 year old cottage buried in a bowl of mountains in Italian Switzerland completely hid from roads or railroad tracks or power lines or artifical light. Just some kids, a fireplace and enough stars to remind me of the infinite coincidences that had to occur to get me there.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know things about animal creatures and how their insides and outsides work and why they might be sick or sad or scared and what they need to be happy.
I want to learn how and why.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories and laughter and warm, delicious from-scratch bread

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Belgium, United States

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