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Overview

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  • Fluent in English; learning German, Spanish
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Writer and Freelancer
  • B.A. Literature and Creative Writing
  • From Green Valley, Minnesota, US
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Write, program, create anything I'm capable of, and do what I need to do

ABOUT ME

Surrealist. The world is deeply bizarre and I thrive on the weird.

PHILOSOPHY

Chaos and more chaos. I live in an unstable world that is unlikely to ever become coherent.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Not sure! I'm very new. I'm fascinated with the history and culture of South Asia. Bouncing from couch to couch would be way useful for a South Asia or a European trip.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Shall have to see.

Interests

Everything and anything.

Surreal and disturbing mindtrips particularly intrigue me. Stories either so complex or so swarmed with symbols that you can't understand them, and I'm almost alway interested.

I love noir madness, wherein a character becomes insane. I'm bonded to the Traveler of the Ways partly because of it.

  • culture
  • writing
  • books
  • history

Music, Movies, and Books

My admiration of the original cyberpunks, like John Brunner, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling is becoming ever stronger.

I have so many favorite books, but the books I often go back and reread, either scenes or entirely: Summer Knight, Death Masks, The Dragon Knight series, American Gods, Neuromancer, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (forgotten some of it, should read it again), All The Weyrs of Pern, Stand on Zanzibar, The Whole Man, The Wheel of Time, The Lord of the Rings, Alastair Reynolds!!, Amanda Downum!!

Music: Kamelot, Nightwish, Sonata Arctica. Music with orchestra, yeah.

To add a tag on here, science fiction and fantasy are my two main interests in books. That, and history.

TV: Angel (Investigations), Battlestar Galactica 2K3, Farscape, GitS: Stand Alone Complex, Xamdou: Lost Memories, Claymore

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Stood at the center of the world
Published my own books on my own power while living with my sister (on our own with our parents supporting us)
Flirted with hot mutant women
Fought giant robots and defeated dictators
Battled the end of the world when the whole thing was collapsing. I still do that every day.

Teach, Learn, Share

Computers, writing, history...

Countries I’ve Visited

United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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