CURRENT MISSION

Mainly, I'm interested in giving birth to smiles. That really sums me up in a nutshell. Hey, how do you delete things on this site? I'm not sure. Because if I could figure out how, I would like to delete that whole 'giving birth to smiles' thing.

ABOUT ME

In hopes that couchsurfing.com is a judgement free zone, I want you to know that I know all the lyrics to “The Humpty Dance” by the Digital Underground. Also, I am Elvis reincarnate on a karaoke stage.

Instead of writing a sorted story about my life I submit this random list of facts:

- I can snap and whistle and backflip.
- I was on a local quiz show in high school and won. Proving once and for all that I know everything about nothing.
- One time I tried out for Jeopardy and in doing so proved that I don’t know everything about nothing so ignore that last statement.
- I am terrible at poker but am a solid Cranium/Scattergories/Pictionary/Monopoly/Cribbage player.
- I am a decent DJ but I have NO other musical talent. Actually, I can just change records while maintaining good musical cohesion. Upon further thought, I guess I don’t have any musical talent.
- Exploring with friends new and old makes me happiest.
- I refuse to dip into theme park water. Hot tubs, however, are a different story.
- My two tattoos were applied 15 years apart - first at 15 and the second last week.
- Parents and animals love me.
- Reading the quaint facts inside the cap of a bottle of Nantucket Nectar brings me a surprising degree of inner peace.
- I don't smoke.

I took last summer off work to travel, write, party, and explore. Visited Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Denmark, Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua... in that order.

PHILOSOPHY

Sleep less, dream more.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My next couchsurfing experience will be my first!

Interests

My interests are all over the place... collecting vinyl, skiing, photography, traveling, sports, hiking, scuba diving... ellipses.

• animals
• writing
• photography
• tattoos
• partying
• reading
• traveling
• poker
• karaoke
• hiking
• scuba diving
• skiing
• sports

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Coen brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson, Kurosawa, and Mike Nicols are my favorite film directors.

Books... Where to begin... I'm currently reading The Leopard, by Guiseppe di Lampedusa. He's tying my brain in knots. Irving, Hemmingway, Auster, Roth. Charles Portis for humor, Malcolm Gladwell for pop behavioral analysis, Calvin Trillan for Americana, 33 1/3 books for music.

Music: Titus Andronicus, Ponytail, The Smiths, East Hundred, Gang Gang Dance, The Minutemen, Dead Milkmen, Fugazi, Justice, The Cramps, GIVERS, Maya Jane Coles, My Morning Jacket, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, The Dismemberment Plan, The National, Bon Iver, The Avalanches, the Mountain Goats
Michael Kiwanuka, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Nocturnal Sunshine, GIRL UNIT, Burial, Four Tet, The Wrong Words, Reigning Sound, The Walkmen, AC Newman, Destroyer, Radiohead, Fever Ray, Madlib, Japandroids, Jeff the Brotherhood, Neil Young, LCD Soundsystem, Ricardo Villalobos, Minor Threat, David Bowie, Crookers, Wolf Parade, The Tough Alliance, Tame Impala, Morrissey, Cass McCombs, Flying Lotus, MF Doom,
Ted Leo, Black Flag, Bill Callahan, Wilco, Deerhunter, Spoon, The Hold Steady, Röyksopp, The Knife, Harry Nilsson, Bob Dylan, Rabbit in the Moon, Fucked Up, SebastiAn, Daft Punk, Okkervil River, The Microphones, The Books, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Tied a cherry stem with my tongue while on a roller coaster.