CURRENT MISSION

To conquor the universe, one syllable at a time... or at least have some danishes and tea before noon.

ABOUT ME

I am an Austinite through and through. Laid back, adventurous, open minded, politically aware, creative, tattooed, pierced. I love having philosophical discussions but don't like arguing about them. Most of these conversations end in "fuck it" or "what does it really matter anyway".
I'm madly in love with life and don't want to waste time trying to convince people of anything. I've spent enough time thinking over things and observing reality to not worry about the opinions of others.
I do my own thing. I appreciate it when others do the same. I treasure human contact and honest interaction. I don't care what people believe as long as they are genuinely good people.
I am a Buddhist but I am also borderline atheist (in that I don't believe in any kind of deity or creator god or force that exists outside of time or space). Talking about "god" with me will get you nowhere.
Very little shocks me. I've been involved in a lot of different scenes in a lot of different places. Most of my life I've been involved in what most people would consider subcultures or counter-cultures of American society. I don't find these labels particularly meaningful but thought I'd throw it out there to give people an idea of what I'm not (what I AM is a much more difficult question).

PHILOSOPHY

Can't really be summed up but is probably something that might be said by Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, The Dalai Lama, William Gibson, Tom Waits, Buffy, Naomi Klein, Starbuck, Han Solo, Richard Dawkins, and The Doctor, if they were trapped in a time lock together and forced to watch passively as the human race dumbed itself down into oblivion.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hosted some folks in Japan. They were rad. I'm back in the States and would love to meet some travelers but unfortunately don't have a couch to offer at the moment.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far quite good! I have had a few sets of people stay here (all couples) and we had a great time. everyone has been really cool.

Interests

film, film-making, art, Buddhism, cause and effect, martial arts, sustainable living, reading, writing, camping, swimming, dancing, traveling, the ridiculous, the sublime, the bizarre

• arts
• writing
• dancing
• reading
• traveling
• camping
• buddhist
• atheism
• martial arts
• swimming
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Star Wars IV, V, VI, Serenity, Hot Fuzz, V for Vendetta, Eastern Promises, Stardust, There Will Be Blood, True Romance, Batman Begins, Love Actually, Grandma's Boy
Music: currently I'm obsessed with The Troublemakers, Peter Bjorn and John, Birdy Nam Nam, The Dining Rooms, Firewater, Koop, Gotan Project, Quantic, Ladytron, Manu Chao, The Faint
Books: Kafka on the Shore, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Good Omens, American Gods, Sit Down and Shut Up, Hardcore Zen, The Watchmen, The Sandman, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Dune, The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Saw the whole of time and space and all the intricate lattices connecting all life and consciousness with each other and realized that all we needed to fix the world was love... and then I came down.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Costa Rica, Japan, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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