CURRENT MISSION

Re-learn Russian grammar, go to Russia

ABOUT ME

I love music, reading and writing, traveling, bikes, etc. Would love to meet other people into punk, hardcore, metal, screamo, some types of acoustic, noise, etc etc etc music. I play in several bands and live at a house that puts on shows. I'm reading or writing something pretty much all the time and love to talk about books and ideas. I am involved with activist groups such as Food not Bombs and the Knoxville Bike Collective.

PHILOSOPHY

The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao.

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've traveled a bit in my life in various capacities, especially with little or no money and have always appreciated being able to find a place to stay. I think having even a loose network of places to stay and people to meet is extremely helpful both practically by allowing people to be able to travel without a lot of money, and inter-personally by establishing contacts and hopefully friendships among people who otherwise never would have met. We're far too alienated from and indifferent too each other in this society, and I think traveling and hosting other travelers can help remedy that.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've yet to do any couch surfing affiliated with this organization, but I have traveled a bit using Greyhound, my bike, trains, my thumb and the best thing I've taken away from all of that is having been able to never stay in a hotel. For the most part everyone I've crashed with has been awesome. Some highlights include a huge artist collective in a renovated warehouse in San Francisco and a 13 bedroom squatted punk house in Buffalo.

Interessen

-music (playing, listening to, going to shows)
-Writing
-Bikes (riding, fixing, thinking out)
-Traveling
-Learning languages
-Hiking/Camping

• writing
• books
• literature
• dining
• reading
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• surfing
• languages
• mountains

Musik, Filme und Bücher

Movies:
-Smoky and the Bandit
-Road Warrior
-Lost in Translation
-The Shawshank Redemption
-White Sun of the Desert
-Suburia
-Dog Day Afternoon
-The Mirror
-Solaris (the Tarkovsky version)
-Ingmar Bergman
-Federico Fellini
-Woody Allen
Music:
Crass, Minor Threat, His Hero is Gone, The Mountain Goats, Black Flag, Ceremony, Orchid, City of Caterpiller, Bruce Springsteen, Lemuria, Fall of Efrafra, Aesop Rock, Fugazi, Dead Moon, ...all kinds of hardcore punk, crust, screamo, black metal, grindcore, etc etc.

Books: Again, too many to really list, but here are some:

-Everything ever by Vladimir Nabokov
-Charles Bukowski
-The Man Without Qualitis by Robert Musil
-Petersburg by Andrei Bely
-Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin
-Nietzsche
-Wittgenstein
-Living My LIfe by Emma Goldman
-Neuromancer by William Gibson
-100 years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-Chekhov
-Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov
-Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
-Rimbaud
-The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
-Gogol
-Borges
-Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
-Hesse
etc etc

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

Spent a month on a goat farm in the mountains of Galicia, Spain

Lehren, lernen, teilen

I'm pretty good a basic bike maintenance, I can discuss philosophy and literature ad nauseam, I can teach you some dirty words in Spanish and Russian, I can help you ride trains out of Knoxville.

Länder, die ich besucht habe

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

United States

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