CURRENT MISSION

Not to take this mission business so seriously.

ABOUT ME

Okay, I've gotten really stuck on this mission stuff, but that doesn't necessarily mean I've spent a lot of time thinking about it. So the mission is ... figure out how to never get old. I hate how that sounds, it's not some sort of Peter Pan complex, I'm comfortable with the idea of aging. It's more about the state of mind, I guess. I used to believe my friend Tom, who says you'll stay young as long as you keep listening to new music, as long as you never lean back in your chair, fold your arms, and say, "They just don't make music like they used to ..."

I definitely still subscribe to the spirit of his theory. I think it's about never walling yourself off, finding a way to keep yourself open to different ideas and experiences. So that's my silly mission. It's going to be harder than I think. I was just arguing with my flatmate about this. He thinks there's something to be said for hardening your shell, internalizing your likes and dislikes, your politics and your opinions. It offers stability, it gives you comfort.

Staying open ... that could mean I'm always questioning my foundation. Man, that could be an unsteady existence.

Editor's note: I'm being really serious and lame tonight. I'm not always like this. I'm giddy and fun. Please, some friends of mine (Dan, Mer, Nicole), second that notion.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I ate mango-scallop sushi with Kyle in San Francisco, and then I slept on a giant air mattress in his spare room. I camped on the Oregon coast with Ashley, a total stranger before earlier that day, when she served my friend and me at lunch. I crashed on a basement floor in Buffalo, a place where I don't know a soul. I sleep on a couch in my own home (the one I grew up in, anyway), because my parents traded my old bed for a new treadmill.

兴趣

Everything. Yeah, it's overwhelming sometimes.

likes: the waaaarm tortilla chips they serve at mexican restaurants ... a perfectly executed parallel park ... alliteration ... 10-song albums ... pica cats and pica rulers.

dislikes: squeezing toothpaste from the middle ... alliteration in newspaper headlines ... sticking my hand into the dark, unknown bathtub drain to unclog it ... running ... states that forbid right turns on red lights.

• cats
• running
• politics
• music
• business

音乐、电影和书籍

Music? Welp, I'll turn to my iPod (my dear, dying iPod), who will attempt to answer the question in 14 randomized songs:
01. "The Word" The Beatles
02. "Sister Morphine" The Rolling Stones
03. "Do You Realize?? (Floating In Space Remix)" The Flaming Lips
04. "I've Got A Surprise For You Today" Jon Brion
05. "Blueberry Boat" Fiery Furnaces
06. "Close Encounters Of The Third Grade" mercury rev
07. "Black Out" Pavement
08. "A Century Ends" David Gray
09. "Some Things Come From Nothing" Super Furry Animals
10. "Pull Out" Death From Above 1979
11. "The Ride, Pt. 2" Calexico
12. "Don't Become The Thing You Hate" Destroyer
13. "Midnight" A Tribe Called Quest
14. "Ella Megalast Burls Forever" Cocteau Twins

My memory is always short for movies, long for directors. For contemporary directors, I'm interested in everything that Michel Gondry touches. Paul Thomas Anderson always wows me with his camera choreography. Darren Aronofsky. Stanley Kubrick, of course. For older directors ... let me answer that next year. I have a lotta catching up to do.

我游览过的国家

Argentina, Australia, England, France, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Myanmar, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Spain, United States, Uruguay, Virgin Islands, British

我居住过的国家

United States

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