CURRENT MISSION

To shortly do a literary unicycle tour from here across Eurasia, co-creating with a friend and colleague of mine, a book based on the travels: http://amoshimasha.blogspot.com/

ABOUT ME

Ani ohev et haTorah,

lehavdl,

I like to read and study the sciences and the classics.
I like epic poems.
I am interested in anthropology, philosophy, music, and "eccentric studies" like cryptozoology and the whole Mandelbrot phenomenon.
I love linguistics.
I love music.
I love unicycling.
I love theorizing.
I love living "the crazy life" adventure-style.

PHILOSOPHY

I do not want to say this, as it will inevitably place me as an unhumble dilettante. I have very literally written, painted, lettered, lectured, and lived thousands of pages, paintings, letters, lectures, and life-livingments, and I still don't quite have a proper philosophy of life.

All I know for certain is that ani ma'amin baShem, unless even emunah itself is an indefinite tentacle of Einsophic extension in "lesser, or rather partitive, or best said, expressed beings" as it, emunah, that is, emanates out of neshamah, nefesh, and lev.

The best way is to talk to me, if one wants to know my philosophy of life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have just gotten started, I am really quite new to the global community of couch surfers and hosts. However, I have been independently travelling for many years, on and off, hitting all mainland countries in Central and South America when I was 18-19, bike-touring southern England and Northern France some, going about Europe in a non-backpacker kind-of-way, I was riding a mini-penny farthing or "ordinary". I have been to Turkey and Israel, Egypt, Cyprus (both sides) (where I was taken into police custody because I was "suspicious"---I had been unicycling in a "Chatterer" Halloween-mask as a dare-ode from/to a good friend of mine, Rolando P., in midnight downtown Nicosia/Lefkosia---that was funny), and many other places, like Mongolia, HK and MC, including, now, mainland China.
So, I am familiar with the hard travel-grind. I suppose I am about to get right back into it. Uh oh.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have had about a million "couch surfing" experiences in my travels by accident or by 'serendipity', but not through CouchSurfing the site. I have slept on someone's outdoor hammock in the Guyanese jungle on the Brazil border, have stayed with a family I am still heartfeltly friends with in rural El Salvador, have stayed the night with Bedouins "by accident" in the Sinai near Nuwibah, have banded with Brazilian food and wine importer-smugglers, again in the Guyanese jungle, this time in the nearly inaccesible interior, stayed with distant family friends in Walthamstowe, Greater London on one of my treks, have slept in a French homeless shelter in Arras (though this may not qualify as couch surfing---I was only handed over by some "caring" natives---once admitted, having left my Ordinary, with the family, the head "orderly" I should call him, insisted I remove my yarmulke out of respect, afterall, this was France, where one has to be as secular as Catholic can be, which I refused to do, saying I was going to leave his "hospices". He, therefore, oddly made an exception, as if I had poker-bluffed him into it---though I had done no such thing), and quite generally, have stayed with people around the world whom I didn't know the night I first stayed in their home, but whom I knew by the morning I left. Certainly, there are different levels of knowing---but this is the most common type when one is on the road and Kerouacking it.

Interests

Torah and the (r)elated canon.

Lehavdl,

Unicycling.
Travelling.
Writing.
Discoursing.
Teaching.
Theorizing.
Studying.
Making friends.
Making the best of life.

• dogs
• humanities
• writing
• books
• poetry
• dining
• wine
• beer
• traveling
• survival
• poker
• music
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• backpacking
• surfing
• anthropology
• emergency services

Music, Movies, and Books

The Butterfly Effect (I), The Jacket, Mind Game (an anime feature), The Tin Drum, The Matrix (I know, I'm a lemming, right), TBWP (for some reason), all manner of zombie movies, like Night of the Living Dead and the 28 Days Later "bilogy" (so far), 13 Going 30 (why, I don't know), Vanilla Sky, Fiddler On The Roof, Eraserhead, American History X, The Believer, Pi, and many more.

Ash, Coheed and Cambria, Neu!, The Mars Volta, Kraftwerk, Thin Lizzy, Rush, Kansas, The Verve Pipe, Saosin, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Killers, Suicide, Reel Big Fish, Yael Naim, Bollywood, Din Din Aviv, Beit HaBubot, Matisyahu, old klezmer tunes, world music, Nigunim, Sikh Shabbads, and much more.

HaTaNa''Ch,

lehavdl,

about every book there is---I think I might be a bibliomaniac, hahaha.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I would not pick any one thing. Anything is legendary.
Just a difference in quality ever exists between two things compared. I suppose, just speaking normally though, I have had some pretty downright amazing experiences, my family and friends claim. I would love to exchange stories with anyone I can trust and know will not betray.

Teach, Learn, Share

I believe I can learn and exchange great travel tips and on-the-road survival skills.

Philosophy, divrei torah, and "all kinds of any talk".
There is a lesson in everything, even in not learning a dog-gone thing.

I would love to discourse on just about anything, or even not talk about anything intelligent, and quietly sip on a beer and go, "Yup", like in King Of The Hill---if you have ever seen that American cartoon.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, France, French Guiana, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Suriname, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, El Salvador, United Kingdom, United States