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Overview

  • 2 references
  • Fluent in English; learning German, Spanish
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2014
  • Writer, film maker
  • BA in English, a few other accidental bits along the way
  • From Niagara Falls, New York - United States
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To investigate around most corners, see how the sun light reflects off different surfaces and textures.

ABOUT ME

I know only that I like movement and meetings, odd quirks and glitches of existence. I am making the time to experience these things with sighs and small quiet smiles.

PHILOSOPHY

The sense of self is an illusion, there is only being that is before understanding. In the sensual a consciousness can become aware of the good and the responsibility inherent to the sense of "other" that permeates our experience…one can appreciate this sense, inhale it like a morning breeze and divest itself of any attachment to possession, propriety, or circumstance. To be serious is to be sick: Nothing is sacred, so everything is love. Umm, and I like cookies. And vegetables! And dancing.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Come and meet me, let us meet our minds. Is there any better way to encounter adventurous and interesting people? I enjoy intense and rewarding conversations, or dancing and laughing mindlessly without interruption, or both...where else can I find these people if not among the wanderers of the world. My home is always open if I am here.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Meeting an accomplished couchsurfer pulled me in to the community, now I feel compelled to be a part in whatever way I can. I have met too many beautiful people to not participate! Let us trade notes on adventure. My areas of expertise: hobo train riding across the country, squatting, living to make art, living AS making art, living on beaches and mountains, poetry, the poetry of hearing the wind, lightning slashes the spring wind!

Interests

Learning languages, nature, hiking, trekking, swimming, climbing, thrills, urban exploration, history, archeology, good talk, good poetry, the dionysian perspective (to an extent, within perspective!), pulsing beat, high culture, low culture, meeting beautiful people with beautiful stories, meeting ugly people with ugly stories (it is all beautiful to me), loving everything, having nothing

  • arts
  • culture
  • poetry
  • dancing
  • hiking
  • rock climbing
  • swimming
  • archeology
  • history
  • languages
  • beaches
  • mountains
  • urban exploration

Music, Movies, and Books

Kundera, Bolaño, Murakami, Boll, Kawabata, Silko, Derrida, Nietzsche, Levinas, Diamond Sutra, Shobogenzo, Malik, Weerasethakul, Godard, Wong Kar-wei, Costa, Hong Sang-soo, Miike, Araki, Tarantino, Takeshi…music, hmm, break beat, dnb, house, punk, hardcore, post whatever, anything with a lovely voice and sweet strains

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Be a part of the life of the cutest puppy in the world, my little brother Dungey the badger warrior! I love my dachshund! And to be able to help the old gentlemen canines I currently live with as well, you guys are sweethearts!

Teach, Learn, Share

life can be zen, from a lay perspective there is much I can teach on that. Also continental philosophy and critical theory, for whatever that's worth he he. A lovely hobby! And I would love to learn anything relating to anything, awareness, creativity, the universe!

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