CURRENT MISSION

beat the final boss and make it to the next level

ABOUT ME

I aspire to be a science fiction writer, but my current work situation keeps me from writing much, so I'm making the best of my time in Japan in other ways.

PHILOSOPHY

perversevere

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I used to host people. I haven’t for years. It’s not impossible, but it’s unlikely.

Interests

amusement parks, art, civilization, comics, culture, drawing, English, fairy tales, fantasy, fiction, French, Japanese, language, literature, movies and film, mythology, pop culture, providence, science fiction, superheroes, travel, video and computer games, world literature, writing: poetry, screenwriting, prose fiction

• arts
• culture
• writing
• books
• literature
• poetry
• comics
• movies
• traveling
• drawing
• science
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies - The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, L'Auberge Espagnole, Bowfinger, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Cooley High Harmony, Die Hard, Don't be a Menace to South Central While Drinkin' Your Juice in the Hood, Dune, Fantastic Planet, Ferris Bueller's Day off, The Fifth Element, The Forty Year-Old Virgin, Fresh, Gattaca, Ghost World, The Great Gatsby, Groove, How Stella Got her Groove Back, Lost in Translation, The Matrix Trilogy, Moulin Rouge, The Neverending Story, 9 Songs, Pirates of the Caribbean I & II, Priscilla - Queen of the Desert, Red Corner, The Royal Tenenbaums, Run Lola Run, Shaun of the Dead, Spirited Away, Star Wars I-VI, Stargate, Strange Days, To Live, True Romance, Waking Life, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, When Harry Met Sally, Wonder Boys, Zoolander

Music - air, erykah badu, anita baker, the beastie boys, belle and sebastian, boards of canada, bran van 3000, the church, sam cooke, cornelius, counting crows, creedence clearwater revival, jim croce, deep forest, depeche mode, digable planets, dj tiesto, bob dylan, echo & the bunnymen, electronic, enigma, the flaming lips, peter gabriel, p.j. harvey, ivy, joy division, keane, carole king, kruder and dorfmeister, kd lang, bob marley and the wailers, massive attack, george michael, momus, morcheeba, mos def, muse, new order, sinead o'connor, olive, outkast, pet shop boys, phoenix, p.m. dawn, poe, portishead, the pretenders, prince, radiohead, red hot chili peppers, rip slyme, sade, saint etienne, saint germain, salt and pepa, seal, simon and garfunkel, sneaker pimps, soul coughing, stereolab, james taylor, tears for fears, they might be giants, thievery corporation, tribe called quest, zero 7

Books - All Flesh is Grass by Clifford D. Simak, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon, A Choice of Gods by Simak, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin, Dune series by Frank Herbert, Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak, Inside UFO 54-40 by Edward Packard, The Left Hand of Darkness by LeGuin, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein, Ozma of Oz by Baum, Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, Project Pope by Simak, Red Mars, Rendezvous with Rama by Frederick Pohl, Snow Crash, The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams, A Stainless Steel Rat is Born, Startide Rising by David Brin, Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein, Tintin series by Herge, Way Station by Simak, When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger

Teach, Learn, Share

I am knowledgable about US comic book culture.