CURRENT MISSION

cosmic consciousness

ABOUT ME

Jack of all trades, master of none. I used to consider this to be a curse, because I always wished to be an insane genius in the arts. Now, I've decided to embrace it and travel the world to become a Renaissance man. Music and good people are the two most important things to me.

PHILOSOPHY

To live my life as though it were a book.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love sleeping on couches (especially random unplanned ones), and I love having random people sleep on mine. I think seeing foreign places through the eyes of a local is the best way to get a feel for a place.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

While on a road trip in 06 with my best friend, in between music festivals we met some wonderful souls in Columbia, MO. A few different people offered up their couches to us, and we where blown away by the kindness and trust these people gave to us, complete strangers at the time (friends for life now though). It's beautiful and kind people like that, that makes me think that there is a chance that everything will be alright.

Interests

Road Tripping, getting bit by a tick and thinking that I have Lyme disease (always a blast), making an ass out of myself, trading fanny packs on Ebay, going to music concerts and festivals, playing music, watching the grass grow, disc golf, fishing, backpacking, psychedelics, looking through LL Bean catalogs and trying to pick out the new items, anything outside, culture, history, dancing, spelunking, dressing up in costumes, reading, traveling, and meeting new people.

• arts
• culture
• books
• concerts
• music festivals
• festivals
• dancing
• reading
• traveling
• music
• fishing
• backpacking
• spelunking
• golf
• history
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Too much to list here, but... Grateful Dead, Moe., Keller Williams, Ryan Adams, Ray LaMontagne, Wilco, Blanche, Bright Eyes, G Love, Bob (Dylan and Marley), Steve Kimock, Rodrigo and Gabriela, SCI, Robert Randolph, The Allman Brothers, Les Claypool, Frank Zappa, Ekoostik Hookah, Widespread Panic, Dave Matthews, Patti Griffin, Damien Rice, Thievery Corporation, Ghostland Observatory, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, The Postal Service, Dark Star Orchestra, Cornmeal, Thelonius Monk, Railroad Earth, Disco Biscuits, Lotus, Buckethead, Sasha, Paul (Oakenfold and Van Dyk), One Under, Future Rock, Rosehill Drive, Tool, Willie Nelson, Toots, Covert Operations, Bump, The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Blackalicious, Joni Mitchell, Saul Williams, Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, BB, Tea Leaf Green, Brother's Past, STS9, David Hasselholf, Bela Fleck, Pink Floyd, Victor Wooten, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Beatles, Neil Young, ALO, Wookiefoot, BoomBox, Master P, Jerry Garcia Band, Phish, Cake, Rolling Stones, The North Mississippi All Stars, Femi Kuti, Patti Griffin, John Scofield, and many more to that I forgot, and to be heard.

Star Wars, In America, Zeitgeist, Why We Fight, The Fog of War, Uncle Buck, The Last of the Mohicans, Braveheart, Breakfast of Champions, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, 40 Year Old Virgin, Legends of the Fall, Fight Club, Amelie, Stand By Me, A River Runs Through It, Donnie Darko, Donnie Brasco, Best in Show, Where the Buffalo Roam, The Swimming Pool, Sex y Lucia, Easy Rider, Pan's Labyrinth, All Dogs Go To Heaven, Big, The Motorcycle Diaries, Dazed and Confused, Swayze Dancing, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amores Perros, Festival Express, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Don Juan Demarco, Office Space, Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Lord of the Rings, Boondock Saints, Crybaby, and Super Troopers.

2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, The Autobiography of a Yogi, Jitterbug Perfume, On the Road, The Alchemist, Beneath the Wheel, Desolation Angels, anything by Vonnegut, anything about the Dead or the 60's, LL Bean catalogs (new and old), Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Call of the Wild, The Artist's Way, The Fountainhead, Pedro Paramo, Rosario Tijeras, Don Quijote, Hippie, Poeta en Nueva York, Jane Eyre, Electic Kool-Aid Acid Test, Into the Wild, Green Eggs and Ham (still a classic), The Life and Death of Bobby Z, Interview With the Vampire, anything by Hunter S. Thompson, and Lullaby.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most amazing thing I´ve done is take a 79 VW Westphalia with my best friend, and we attempted to drive from the United States to the Panama Canal and back again!!! We made it, but unfortunately Sweat Pea died in Honduras. :(

Teach, Learn, Share

Religion, in its true form is love. When you look at virtually any religion at its core, it is about love. Fundamentalists who start war and are willing to kill to "spread" a religion are people who scare me. I am a firm believer in love, and synchronicity as well.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belize, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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