CURRENT MISSION

Drinking ale and playing some Viking metal on my very own longboat which I shall sail from Scotland to the Faroe Islands!

ABOUT ME

how do I live? by swinging
from cliche to cliche the way an elephant
steps from lily pad to lily pad
in the sky
the letter M in your meaning
splits the face I know
middle-of-the-road politics
posing as objectivity
until each quick and simple thing
folds beneath the unassailable
weight of stars
from which so much sense has been derived

--Kit Robinson

I'm just a nomadic metalhead and unlike my peers I'm not highly specialized in some readily identifiable discipline, but man, I'm interested in a lot of stuff, so I'm not likely to bore you. Try me.

PHILOSOPHY

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. --J.R.R. Tolkien

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. --Willy Wonka

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. --St. Augustine

Do not believe a thing simply because it has been said. Do not put your faith in traditions or believe a thing because the general opinion believes it to be true. Do not believe that which you are in the habit of believing or that which comes to your imagination, thinking that it must be the revelation of a superior Being.
That which you have tried yourself, which you have experienced, which you have recognized as true, and which will be beneficial to you and to others, believe that and shape your conduct to it. --The Buddha

Don't say, "It's been a good day" till sundown.
Don't say, "She's a good wife," till she's buried.
Don't say, "The ice is safe," till you've crossed it.
Don't say, "The beer is good," till you've drunk the last of it.

--The Havamal

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

visited 14 states (6.22%)Create your own visited map of The World

Interests

metal: give me thrash, death, black, folk and all manner of heavy metaaallll

hillwalking and long-distance hikes
ROLLER DERBY
science fiction
gaming: retro, PC, console, it's all good
the 80's, especially the cheesy movies
swimming
cycling
bass guitar
camping
amateur robotics
Vikings
festivals (of a metallic nature)
B movies
reading
canyoning
medicine
Wing Chun kung fu
Northern European history & mythology
the zombie apocalypse

• books
• festivals
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• baking
• drinking
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• bouldering
• guitar
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• sailing
• swimming
• history
• languages
• medicine
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

How about: William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Ursula LeGuin, Philip K. Dick, J. G. Ballard, Hunter S. Thompson, Michel Foucault, H.P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov

http://www.last.fm/user/ahapaxlegomenon

As for movies, let's talk Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, The Big Lebowski, Conan, Robocop, Bill & Ted, Wayne's World, Lord of the Rings, Evil Dead, Brain Dead...throw me some sci fi, zombies, 80's cheese or something made on a $50 budget and you've probably got a winner.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've seen majestic Lochnagar after a long ascent through boulder fields in the middle of the nowhere in the Cairngorms; the near-vertical munro carved out by glaciers and brooding over the dark, still waters of the loch.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd very much like to meet people with whom I can practice foreign languages (especially Russian, French and Spanish) as I'm not any good at any of them. I can share my world-renowned cooking and baking skills with anyone, however!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United States

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