Hello there. Thanks for stopping by. I'm ian. I'm from north jersey but I've been living in brooklyn for 10 year, currently at the Bushwick/BedSty border, right off Broadway. I'm a curious person, so i ask a lotta questions and am full of usefuless facts. I also like animals a lot. I'm also a vegetarian. 420. John Waters is probably the greatest living American.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love meeting new people. I love visiting new places. People and places is the best way to learn about the world, life, and yourself. When I first started using this site back in 2007, I somehow managed to acquire a handful of friends for life, along with a love affair with a city that has lasted two weddings, seeeeeveral break ups, and 11 years...all in that city.
Life is strange. How strange it is to be anything at all. Might as well make friends with strangers along the way...

"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music...the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself." - Henry Miller

Interests

dancing till you sweat,existentialism. indoctrination. discipline. politics and media. Brexit and the rise of authoritarianism in the world today. politics in terms of good/evil. dynamics of compromise. People choosing to overlook trump's racism, sexism, ableism, misogyny, and the glut of bald-faced lies he told, in exchange for the possibility that he might bring jobs back to their community, and what all this says about human beings, fear, media, the Internet, and the universal experience of human stupidity. change. objectivity. why people need a religion. How sad it was that half the drag queens came out in the same damn outfit on the Madonna episode from the last regular season of drag race. palestine and Israel and the two state solution. sex n gender n power n chicks with their dicks n men with their vaginas. morality. and poop. dumb shit. Why did pogs ever exist? TV commercials. the dynamics of people at a party(plus booze and drugs).when the self becomes a selfie. certainty. how I sometimes feel like Fox News was a catalyst for the liberals going dumb. ridiculousness. Online dating(and how gay men are winning at this(but are the lesbians?)).Why selfies became so fucking ubiquitous. the need to justify.hamlet, a lotta hamlet. Embracing melancholy...all the melancholy.

• animals
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• music
• food
• cinema
• weed
• veganism
• comic books
• 420
• vegan cooking
• sexuality
• existentialism
• fucktrump
• fuckmaga

Music, Movies, and Books

It's lots of stuff people. It's lots. It's interesting and shows good taste and is diverse and varied and a bunch of it is by women. It's all there. I swear. Let's talk about it together.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i survived a peritonsillar abscess. Do a google image search and tell me if you're still hungry.

Teach, Learn, Share

Today I'm going to teach you one of the useless movie facts i have rolling around in my head: As much as Michelangelo Antonioni is haled for the genius of 1966's Blow Up, it's interesting to hear the back story behind it and how much of that movie was a result of circumstance. Ronan O'Casey, who played the "Blow-Up" that the title refers to, once wrote a letter to Rodger Ebert describing the experience making the movie. He described the story that was in the initial script. It involved a young lover waiting to kill O'Casey while Vanessa Redgrave watched. These included scenes showing the planning of the murder and its aftermath, which were never shot because the film went seriously over budget. Antonini spent the budget on things like painting roads a darker grey, repainting full blocks of houses because he didn't like their color, haveing all the grass in Maryon park painted a different shade of green, or designing and building a neon bill-board sign for a 5 second shot. When producer Carlo Ponti arrived on set, he shut the whole production down and Antonini was forced to take all the bits and pieces he had and make a movie out of it. The result was one of the best movies of the 60's, crystalizing London's swinger scene in a time capsule that inspired many knock-off's and even parodys(Austin Powers) for years to come. When many people watch this movie, they are awed by the isolation and the mystery of reality. You would think that something so well executed could only been intentional from beginning to end. But no, Antonioni the perfectionist was having too much fun burning through the money, and he got slapped on the wrist for it. And the world is a better place because of it. His talent manifested itself in his ability to completely transform the story in the editing room. Ok class, lesson ojurned. Make sure you all study for the Quiz on Thursday.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, England, France, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Panama, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States