ABOUT ME

Friendly, multicultural, very well informed, generally interested in things and the world, a bit skeptical by nature, funny.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

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Interests

I'm quite addicted to music, the weirder the better, though I am mostly partial to jazz. I am also a big reader and tend to be very well informed about things. I have a really wide variety of interests, which is both a blessing and a curse. My professional background is in urban planning and I did development planning in West Africa for a while before moving back to the states. I also very passionate about environmental and equity issues. Generally I'm good conversation. I have have a pet soccer addiction.

• pets
• cooking
• music
• jazz
• guitar
• soccer
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Lot's and lots of jazz - Miles, Coltrane, Monk, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, also a lot of obscura from all over the world. I have a really big West African highlife collection and am really into Middle Eastern Music from the 50s-70s and the more psychedelic Thai Pop. I'm a jazz guitar player and really also like stuff in the John Fahey, Sir Richard Bishop vain. I worked in a record store all through college so their isn't a lot that I'm not at least passingly familiar with.

Movies: Withnail & I, F For Fake, 8 1/2, Kurosawa Films, French New Wave, Blade Runner, mostly foreign and art films or ridiculous sci-fi action movies.

Books: "The Savage Detectives" - Roberto Bolano, anything by Borges, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" - Jane Jacobs, "Pity the Nation" by Robert Fisk, Kafka, Nabokov, I'm a big reader and I can rattle off titles all day.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I met the late Colonel Qaddafi once (while in Ghana), which was a little bit mind blowing in and of itself. I have some a lot of good stories from my travels.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know a bit about a lot of stuff - I tend to research things to death once I develop an interest in them. I'm very good at talking about history and philosophic ideas, and well, music. I am a decent guitar player, handy at things like bicycle repair, a pretty good cook and

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Belgium, Benin, Burundi, Germany, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Spain, Togo, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France, Ghana, Niger, United States