CURRENT MISSION

floatin, scummin, bummin around the world!

ABOUT ME

spent the last few years as a tomato farmer and now i've been working doing landscape design on the rooftops of nyc

PHILOSOPHY

A man had left a Czech village to seek his fortune. Twenty-five years later, and now rich, he had returned with a wife and a child. His mother was running a hotel with his sister in the village where he'd been born. In order to surprise them, he had left his wife and child at another hotel and gone to see his mother, who didn't recognize him when he walked in. As a joke he'd had the idea of taking a room. He had shown off his money. During the night his mother and his sister had beaten him to death with a hammer in order to rob him and had thrown his body in the river. The next morning the wife had come to the hotel and, without knowing it, gave away the traveler's identity. The mother hanged herself. The sister threw herself down a well. I must have read that story a thousand times. On the one hand it wasn't very likely. On the other, it was perfectly natural. Anyway, I thought the traveler pretty much deserved what he got and that you should never play games.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i live for traveling on a whim and couchsurfing makes that absolutely possible.

Interests

• design
• dancing
• running
• traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

as of recent:
MOVIES: the fall, fear and loathing in las vegas, noi albinoi, waking life, inglourious basterds

MUSIC: caribou, machinedrum, radiohead, joy orbison, the album leaf, sigur ros, caspian, this will destroy you, blakroc, crystal castles, fever ray, the hope conspiracy, american nightmare, saves the day

BOOK: the STRANGER or perhaps ISHMAEL but I hold a special place for Hunter S. Thompson's writings

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

seeing the northern lights dance across the skies of iceland

Teach, Learn, Share

Mankind, instead of being the central figure on the stage of reality, the rational creature for whom the nonrational world exists, is actually an accident, a late and adventitious newcomer whose life is governed by contingency; and the proof, paradoxically, comes from rationalism itself, from the Darwinian idea of evolution. Whatever may be the case with trees and stones and stars, man the thinker is a by-product, a nonessential component of reality, and he and all his works cling to existence with a hold that is tenuous and feeble.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Germany, Iceland, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, United States