CURRENT MISSION

To get a job.

ABOUT ME

Marlon Brando in Streetcar (movie version), Jesus (New Testament), that guy who used to sit on my doorstep in Toronto shaving his head.

PHILOSOPHY

I'd rather be dead than bourgeois.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

With caution. Then, with reckless abandon.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have slept on many many many many couches. Have been swallowed by 14 of them.

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Charlie Kaufman (a.k.a. the James Joyce of screenwriting, who has freed us all), Stanley Kubrick (the Moses of silence), Sam Peckinpah (early Cormac McCarthy with a movie camera), the Coen Brothers before they totally went bad and broke all their own rules, Apocalypse Now, a cast of thousands.

Music: Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, Magnetic Fields, Modern Lovers, myself in the shower, The Sadies, Royal City, Michelle Shocked, Bob (God) Dylan, my girlfriend and her guitar, Iron & Wine, Johnny Cash, Joanna Newsom, Spiral Beach, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Chet Baker, etc. etc. etc.

Books: Being and Time, Crime and Punishment, How to Write a Novel, A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History, Herodotus, Plutarch, How to Build and Furnish a Log Cabin Using Nothing But Handtools and the Woods Around You, Mann ohne Eigenschaften, The Making of the English Working Class, Das Kapital, Blood Meridian, The Family of Pascal Duarte, Lolita, A Story as Sharp as a Knife, Isaac Babel, Richard Brautigan, Donald Barthelme, Donald Barthelme, Donald Barthelme, Paul Ricoeur, Die Verwandlung, Tolstoy, Trotsky, Rainer Maria Rilke, Erich Maria Ermarque, Alfred Döblin, Papa Hemingway, William Faulkner, Camus, Gogol, Turgenev, Edward Gibbon, etc. etc. etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Germany, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United States