CURRENT MISSION

I want to see everything, taste every beer, laugh, have fun, never stop learning, and I think I'm growing penicillin on a loaf of bread in my kitchen.

ABOUT ME

I love to laugh, it's my absolute favorite thing in the world to do. I think it's the best feeling ever and if there ever comes a day when I can't laugh I'm going to sit down and seriously rethink my life.

I'm addicted to music. I love music. I don't think there is blood in my veins, I think my veins are full of musical notes.

I love traveling. I want to see everything. It makes me crazy that there are places on this planet of which I am unaware.

PHILOSOPHY

In the grand scheme of things it's not that big of a deal. Share your stories. Strive to make other people smile. Courtesy flush. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm currently traveling

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've never couch surfed from this website, but I've left an ass groove in many a couches. I love the experience and sharing it with others.

Interests

Collecting good stories for when I'm old and crazy, teaching myself things like medical history and various types of engineering in case I ever "accidentally" travel backwards in time, learning a million languages at once (buona sera, watashi no hobākurafuto wa unagi de ippai desu!), anything involving water (except for drowning), camping, traveling, brewing beer (and other things accidentally), attempting to watch every movie and read every book, going to arcades, making up words for my amusement, public transportation with my ipod, driving with no destination, roadtrips (also known as driving with a destination), climbing on things and being unable to get back down, exploration, history, language, cultures, science, medicine, history of language/cultures/science/medicine, abandoned buildings, beer, comics and other books with pictures, books with just words, vintage and questionable medical devices, brains (as part of the nervous system and zombie treats), synaptic misfires, subconscious unawareness, embraceable vicissitudes, and social ineptitude (yours and mine).

My current goal is getting my diving certificate and doing some wreck diving.

• books
• cooking
• beer
• comics
• trivia
• traveling
• crochet
• homebrewing
• music
• camping
• scuba diving
• rock climbing
• engineering
• history
• languages
• medicine
• physics
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

To name a few...

Movies: L.A. Confidential, Bottle Rocket, Metropolis, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Dr. Strangelove, Top Gun, A Very Long Engagement, City of Lost Children, Amelie, Battle Royale, Mirrormask, The Big Lebowski, Dark City, Serenity, Boondock Saints, North by Northwest, Spirited Away, Nightwatch, Final Fantasy Vii: Advent Children

Music: Etta James, Nina Simone, Louis Prima, Keely Smith, The Rat Pack, Patsy Cline, Orbital, Depeche Mode, Radiohead, Strung Out, Toad the Wet Sprocket, David Gilmour, Big Country, The Vandals, Velvet Underground, Nico, John Cale, Lou Reed, David Bowie, The Cure, Faith No More, Skinny Puppy, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Joshua Bell, Danzig, Berlin, The New Pornographers, The Clash, Pink Floyd, The Tea Party, 2 Skinnee J's, Cab Calloway, The Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bad Religion, 80's and early 90's one hit wonders, Acumen Nation, Ruby, Gravity Kills, Mike Patton, Martin Atkins, Jane Jensen, Dresden Dolls, Jared Louche, Joe Strummer, Rasputina, Devo, Killing Joke, Lesley Rankine, Neko Case, Massive Attack, Millencolin, Ministry, New Order, Outkast, The Shins, Gotan Project, Calexico, Underworld, Vast, Joy Division, Stoa, Chemlab, Chris Connelly, Pigface, Die Symphony, Econoline Crush, Evil Mothers, Front Line Assembly, Ugly Casanova, Modest Mouse, Failure, Badly Drawn Boy, Zero 7, Esthero, The Thermals, Elysian Fields, Portishead, Hooverphonic, Broken Social Scene, Zebrahead, Boards of Canada, VHS or Beta, Spoon, Snow Patrol, VNV Nation, Dio, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bloc Party, Grandaddy, Aphex Twin, The Aquabats, Howie Day, Isis, Interpol, The Faint, Mad Caddies, At The Drive In, The Postal Service, The Mars Volta, Bright Eyes, Desapericidos, Thursday, Sparta, Rainer Maria, Brand New, Dramarama,

This list is never ending, I love music. Every song is my favorite song.

Books: Outdated medical/psychology/history/science books, The Divine Comedy (Dante), Demian (Herman Hesse), Nausea (Sartre), The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath), Pulp, South of No North, any others I've read (Charles Bukowski), Foucalts Pendulum (Umberto Eco), The Hitchikers Guide books (Douglas Adams), Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut), 1984 (George Orwell), The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein), American Gods, Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman)

Comics/graphic novels: Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Fables, The Long Halloween, Mad Love, My Monkeys Name is Jennifer, Sandman, Kingdom Come, and I'm kinda digging the new Moon Knight.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I worked on an apple farm in Japan, that was pretty amazing. I also defy physics and gravity.

Teach, Learn, Share

When I sat down to think about what skills I have that I could teach others, I drew a blank and that really disappoints me. I can crochet, cook, make a camera out of a shoebox, and do marginally well in trivia. I want to learn anything I don't already know.

Countries I’ve Visited

Japan, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States