hi! I am spencer, after working as an engineer in a factory for a few years I decided to stop and travel to meet new people, work small jobs, fight materialist/consumerist impulses, and see the world awhile. I am an artist, I make electronic ambient collage music, and love to play piano (chopin, debussy and bill evans especially). i've been studying eastern religion independently for the past four years and it's a big part of how I see the world. i like looking at the sky, cooking, watching the water, reading, hitchhiking, mountains, walks, silence, meeting people and entering their lives for a short but profound time...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

meet amazing new people and see how they are living & how they are doing

Interests

• cooking
• reading
• music
• hiking
• languages
• hitchhiking
• art
• buddhism
• learning
• vegetables

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC (a lot)
jazz, soul, ambient, house, folk, UK garage, drum and bass, CAN, joni mitchell, neil young, gil scott-heron, nick drake, brian eno, cocteau twins, pavement, four tet, AC Jobim, lizzy mercier descloux, “chill out” by the KLF, pharoah sanders, aphex twin, don cherry, bill evans, bob dylan, …

MOVIES
paris texas, john cassavetes, the matrix, millenium mambo, beau travail, harold and maude, near dark, perfect days, slacker, taste of cherry, heat, godard, the long goodbye, agnes varda, tati, solaris, cronenberg, carpenter, jim jarmusch, doom generation, wong kar wai, magnolia, terminator 2, …

BOOKS
henry miller, proust, clarice lispector, zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, the one-straw revolution, emerson, rimbaud, nabokov, house of leaves, steinbeck, ocean of sound by david toop. religion/poetry/philosophy books from Japan and China

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

existed at all

hitchhiked over 7000km in europe and japan. the stars above Tsubakurodake in nagano, JP told me a secret before i fell asleep.

Teach, Learn, Share

TEACH
hitchhiking; good stretches; music theory; chemistry, math, producing electronic music; optimism; a few excellent recipes; english; mending clothes

LEARN
french (i'm not very good), japanese and spanish (i'm okay), recipes and stories from home and away

SHARE
my house, maybe some food, my time (hopefully), my friends (probably), recommendations around the city

What I Can Share with Hosts

travel stories, piano recital (if there is a piano), some books and movies on my mind right now

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States