Pave your own path

CURRENT MISSION

to live and to love

ABOUT ME

integrity ⚈ health ⚈ art ⚈ geography ⚈ business ⚈ passion ⚈ burning man

PHILOSOPHY

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I share the things I love.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted, I've surfed. I've found that there is an immediate connection when I meet people from CSing.

Interests

biohacking. business. fashion. technology. yoga. botany, self-learning. camping. dancing. discovering.

• arts
• culture
• fashion
• dancing
• wine
• yoga
• technology
• tv
• socializing
• music
• camping
• golf
• business
• etymology
• geography

Music, Movies, and Books

I've found that each and every one of these bands below have influenced me in some way: **list is not in any particular order**

Yann Tiersen. Polo &; Pan. Nicholas Jaar. Andrew Bird. Blonde Redhead. Nicola Conte. A.R. Rahman. Thelonias Monk. Radiohead. Mates of State. Buena Vista Social Club. Dispatch. TJ. My Morning Jacket. Vince Guaraldi. Seu Jorge. The Beatles. Bob Marley. The Pixies. The Wailers. Elliot Smith. Led Zepplin. Bella Nova. Matisyahu. Artic Monkeys. Modest Mouse. The Redwalls. Dolphin City. Vampire Weekend. Ben Folds. The Shins. Wilco. Red Hot Chilli Peppers. The Strokes. The Books. Amos Lee, Death Cab/Postal Service. Tom Petty. David Bowie. Mute Math. Coldplay. Bob Dylan. I could keep going and going...

Movies: Always changing (not updated in awhile)
The Dark knight (filmed in Chicago)
Departed
Tapped
Cidade De Deus (City Of God)
Catfish
Headwig and The Angry Inch
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Butterfly Effect
Waking Life
Pulp Fiction
Crash
Wedding Crashers
Kill Bill 1&2
Boondock Saints
V for Vendetta
Babel
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Donnie Darko
The Girl next Door
Full Metal Jacket
Chow Manhattan
Party Monster
Shawshank Redemption
Brokeback Mountain
American History X
The Breakfest Club
The Good Shepherd
Casino Royale
Superbad
and more...

Books
The World is Flat
Marching Powder
The Culture Code
The Devil and Miss Prym
Rule of the Bone
Freakonomics
The Devil in the White City
The Primal Blueprint
The Kite Runner
Exodus
Eat, Pray, Love
Shantaram

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Studied in India

Teach, Learn, Share

Quotes that I find ridiculous and others that I find interesting.

–Ridiculous:

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean, I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
---Mariah Carey

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
---Brook Shields

"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
---Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dalls Mavericks

"I'm not going to have some reporters going through our papers. We are the president."
---Hillary Clinton

–Interesting quotes:

"In the pursuit of unconformity, we become the ultimate conformist"
-John M. Shanahan

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."
-Somerset Maugham

"I do not know anyone who got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."
-Margaret Thatcher

"There is no substitute for experience"
-Bob Klauber

more to come...

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Lithuania, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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