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Overview

  • 21 references 14 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Spanish
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Bill Collector
  • First Hand Experience
  • From Rock Falls, IL
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Weekend Warrior Throughout The United States

ABOUT ME

Music, Tattoo's and Brews!

I'm a Cancer and I always enjoy making people laugh at the small things in life we take for granted.

I'm a sucker for making a story that you can't help but laugh nonstop when reflecting on what just happened.

I play in a band: PEACH
http://www.reverbnation.com/peach

PHILOSOPHY

"I'm not afraid of failing, I'm afraid of living a boring life!"
- Roy Edwards

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I open my couch up to travelers and love to experience new exciting adventures.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Met a great group of local couch surfers in the Central Illinois Area who got the traveling fever started in me..

I took a trip to St Petersburg, FL and had an incredible time couch surfing with our host - she will undoubtedly change the world of eco-friendly fashion. I will have to say my favorite part was looking out at the Gulf of Mexico and restringing an acoustic guitar - it made me realize my complete appreciation for musical expression.

Before moving to STL, I surfed a night in Soulard enjoying the finest cheap beer the area had to offer along with my spanish teaching host. We partied hard and I ended up passing out at his neighbors apartment! What better way to start a new life in STL!

Weekend Warriored Tulsa OK enjoyed some College Dance Parties, a true Tulsa Mud Run, the coolest home made fort next to Joe Creek & Sharing some drinks with some old vietnam vets / blue collared workers who thought I was too crazy and needed to settle down!

Even though the couch fell thru in NYC I walked the rainy streets checking out my favorite locations of the city namely "The Upright Citizens Brigade" where it all started, walked the streets of Times Square enjoyed some incredible beers in the basement of the Empire State Building and helped campaign a local politician for a New York Minute on the street corners. Tell my kitty to pack the bags cause we're moving to NYC!

Weekend Warriored the music scenes of the midwest, unfortunately the couch fell thru in Indianapolis but my hosts in Louisville ensured that my friends first experience was the embodiment of everything Couch Surfing. The band jammed the downtown played shuffle board at the local hidden dive bar and learned how Louisville relates to St Louis in many ways. I can hardly wait for my hosts to come to St Louis so that I can return the hospitality.

2009 Hosting:
Erik - Holland // July 06th - July 12th
John - England // July 13th - July 15th
Mike - South Carolina // July 22nd - July 23rd
Noelle - Florida // August 24th - August 26th
Mara & Maria - Germany // September 2nd - September 3rd
Anita - Chicago // September 4th - September 5th
Katie & Phill - Bloomington // September 5th - September 7th
Sam - Arizona // September 22nd - September 23rd
Samantha & Emily - Iowa // October 23rd - October 24th
Lisa - Tennessee // November 18th

Interests

Playing Music.
Sharing Strange Facts and Stories.
Offbeat Humor.
Reading.
Import Beers.
Frisbee Golf.
Learning Thru Observation.
Dancing to 80's Music.
Nintendo 8-Bit.
Public Speaking.
Laughing As Much As Possible.

  • fashion
  • dancing
  • beer
  • running
  • partying
  • drinking
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • surfing
  • golf

Music, Movies, and Books

Currently Watching: Air Guitar Nation
Currently Listening: The Sounds
Currently Reading: The Cosmic Serpent

MOVIES I OWN:

12 Monkeys
1941
21 Grams
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
A Clockwork Orange
A Few Good Men
A History of Violence
A Mighty Wind
A Night at The Roxbury
About Schmidt
Ace Ventura Pet Detective
Ace Ventura When Nature Calls
Adaptation
Airplane!
All The Right Moves
American Beauty
American Psycho
An American Werewolf in Paris
Animal House
Armor For Sleep: A Comprhensive Guide To Touring
Artificial Intelligence
August
Austin Powers : Goldmember
Batman Begins
Benny and Joon
Beverly Hills Cop
Big Fish
Bleeding Through: Wolves Amongst Sheeps
Boiler Room
Boondock Saints
Born On The Fourth of July
Bringing Out The Dead
Brokeback Mountain
Caddyshack
Can't Hardly Wait
Capturing the Friedman's
Cast Away
Catch Me If You Can
Chevelle (Live from the Norva)
Clerks 2
Clue
Cocktail
Collateral
Confessions of A Dangerous Mind
Constantine
Cool Hand Luke
Cool World
Copland
Crash
Dark City
Days of Thunder
Dazed and Confused
Dead Poets Society
Deathwish
Dexter (Season 1)
Dexter (Season 2)
Dillinger Escape Plan: Miss Machine
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Work
Donnie Darko
Drive Me Crazy
Dumb and Dumber
Eastern Promises
Eddie Murphy : Delirious
Eddie Murphy : Raw
Edward Scissorhands
Endless Love
Equilibrium
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eyes Wide Shut
Fahrenheit 9/11
Falling Down
Far and Away
Fargo
Fear
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Field of Dreams
Fight Club
Fire In The Sky
Footloose
For Love of the Game
Fracture
Frailty
Frequency
Full Metal Jacket
Garden State
Ghostbusters 1
Ghostbusters 2
Ghosts of Mars
Gladiator
Green Street Hooligans
Half Baked
Hard Candy
Hollywood Land
Hoosiers
Hot Rod
House of 1000 Corpses
How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days
I Am Sam
I Heart Huckabees
I Robot
Identity
Idle Hands
In and Out
In Good Company
Interview With The Vampire
Into The Wild
Jerry Maguire
Kanye West: The College Dropout Video Anthology
Killer Clowns From Outer Space
Killswitch Engage: Set The World Ablaze
Stephen King's IT
Kingpin
K-Pax
Lady In The Water
Laurel Canyon
Legend
Lions For Lambs
Losin' It
Madagascar
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
Magnolia
Mallrats
Man On The Moon
Mars Attacks
Me Myself and Irene
Meet Bill
Memento
Michael Jackson: Moonwalker
Midnight Express
Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil
Minority Report
Mission Impossible
Mission Impossible 2
Mission Impossible 3
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Mortal Kombat
Murder In The First
Mystic River
Natural Born Killers
No Escape
Night Of The Living Dead
Office Space
Philadelphia
Pi
Poolhall Junkies
Pretty In Pink
Private Parts
Pulp Fiction
Punch Drunk Love
Purple Rain
Radio
Rain Man
Rage Against The Machine (Live at the Olympic Auditorium)
Raging Bull
Ravenous
Reality Bites
Refused Are Fucking Dead
Requiem For A Dream
Reservoir Dogs
Riding In Cars With Boys
Risky Business
Rockstar
Romeo & Juliet
Saturday Night Fever
Say Anything
Se7en
Shawshank Redemption
Sideways
Signs
Silent Hill
Slayer (Still Reigning)
Sleepers
Snatch
So I Married An Axe Murderer
Spinal Tap
St. Elmo's Fire
Stir of Echoes
Stranger Than Fiction
Swept Away
Swing Kids
Syd Barret's First Trip
Taps
Taxi Driver
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (old)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (new)
Thank You For Smoking
The 40yr. Old Virgin
The Adventures of Milo and Otis
The Aviator
The Beach
The Best of Eddie Murphy
The Big Lebowski
The Black Dahlia
The Blues Brothers
The Breakfast Club
The Butterfly Effect
The Cable Guy
The Color Of Money
The Craft
The Crow
The Crow: City of Angels
The Darjeeling Limited
The Devils Rejects
The Doors
The Elephant Man
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Exorcist
The Falcon and The Snowman
The Firm
The Fly
The Ghost And The Darkness
The Good Son
The Great White Hype
The Happening
The Hills Have Eyes
The Jacket
The Karate Kid
The Last Samurai
The Life Aquatic
The Life of David Gale
The Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship of The Rings
The Lord Of The Rings: Two Towers
The Lord Of The Rings: Return of The King
The Lost Boys
The Majestic
The Matrix
The Matrix: Reloaded
The Matrix: Revolutions
The Mothman Prophecies
The Ninth Gate
The Notebook
The Outsiders
The People Under the Stairs
The Pick-Up Artist
The Replacements
The Royal Tenebaums
The Rules of Attraction
The Secret of My Success
The Shining
The Sixth Sense
The Squid and The Whale
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Terminal
The United States of Leland
The Village
The Warriors
The Wedding Singer
The Wizard
The Virgin Suicides
The X-Files: Fight the Future
There Will Be Blood
There's Something About Mary
They Live
Three Amigos
Top Gun
Totally Awesome
Trading Places
Trainspotting
Tropic Thunder
Unbreakable
Underworld
Upright Citizens Brigade (Season 1)
Upright Citizens Brigade (Season 2)
Urban Cowboy
Vanilla Sky
Varsity Blues
Walk The Line
War of the Worlds
Wayne's World
Wayne's World 2
What Dreams May Come
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Wild Things
Wonderland
Young Guns
Zoolander

As far as music - lately a lot of The Afghan Whigs, Kenna, Cut Copy, Metric, The Sounds, Circa Survive, Shiny Toy Guns, Cold, Kings of Leon, The Postal Service, The Gaslight Anthem, Alkaline Trio, Alexisonfire, MGMT, LostProphets, The Killers, Kanye West, Jimmy Eat World, Ignite, Head Automatica and Dredg just to name a few. I'm into a lot of indie/punk and also synth // electro dance.

Books - I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, Yoga For Dummies, The Hobbit, Zombie Survival Guide, A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rockstar, The Purple Cow, Real Estate Millinoaire, Mad Money, Improv:Wisdom

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Started a music production company to give kids a place to be themselves. (Nowhere But Forty Productions)

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach:
How to Have A Fun Problem.
Human Observation.

Learn:
Letting Go.
Eco-Friendly Lifestyle.

Share:
The Search For No Boundaries.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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