CURRENT MISSION

May 2009: travel most of Western Europe in 3 weeks!

ABOUT ME

I'm awesome.
My life is 100% saturated with music.
I want to make music as a career. I like to sing covers of a lot of bands like Brand New, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, David Crowder, Jeff Buckley, the Beatles, Jackson Browne, whatever. If I like it, I'll learn it and play it.

Honestly, if you want to know something skype or im me.
I'm pretty open to talk to whoever.

I want to tour the U.S. in a Volkswagen Vanagon/Adeventurewagon someday.

I smoke cigars and have a select few beers that I really enjoy. I'm a big fan of Kilkenny's Irish Beer, Guinness Extra Stout (and on tap), and Moretti's Doppio
Malto. I like to try different beers and I collect the bottle caps.

Also, concerning smoke, I'm not huge for cigarettes but can more than tolerate them, but personally I prefer cigars and pipe smoke. Also, I really enjoy hookah (nargile).

Really though, the best way for you to get to know me is to message me.

PHILOSOPHY

Love your enemies.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfers are welcome. I just need to know well in advance. I participate in any way that I can!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I surfed all over the UK and it was absolutely amazing. I went a couple of months ago to Scotland where I surfed with an American student studying in Glasgow and he showed me the town and I gave him a bottle of Italian wine! (Got to share the culture you know...) Then I went to Ireland for a night and stayed in a hostel because most CSers in Dublin were still recovering from St. Patty's day just a couple of weeks earlier. Then I went to London and surfed with two different sets of people for two nights each. Each one was amazing and a blast. I can only hope that when I go back to the U.S. and can host, that I could show people half as good of a time as I have been shown.

Interests

music (i could truely type for hours on this matter): playing it, singing, listening, the whole deal

languages

the sound of the human voice

video editing

books

running

biking

pubs with friends

podcasts

traveling

cigars

pipe

hookah

• culture
• books
• singing
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• marathon
• running
• pub crawls
• traveling
• podcasts
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

movies:
Braveheart, Boondock Saints, Count of Monte Cristo, Pulp Fiction, Snatch, Italian Job, Oceans 11, Oceans 12, Oceans 13, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Volume 1&2, Dumb and Dumber, Scarface, The Usual Suspects, Seven, 300, Anchorman, Troy, Gladiator, Locked Stocked and Two Smoking Barrels, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Semicolon Movie Film for Theaters, Team America World Police, L4yer Cake, Sin City, Planet Terror, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Dirty Work, Batman Begins, Revolver, Rock'N'Rolla

music:

Johnny Cash, Anberlin, Oasis, Zao, Taking Back Sunday, Every Time I Die, Haste, Haste The Day, Between the Buried and Me, The Beatles, The Guess Who, It Dies Today, Atreyu, 7 Angels 7 Plagues, Dead Poetic, Frank Sinatra, Death Cab For Cutie, Stryper, The New Amsterdams, The Ramones, Audioslave, Coldplay, Beloved, Straylight Run, Juliana Theory, The Postal Service, Alexisonfire, On Broken Wings, Acoustix, DragonForce, Symphony In Peril, Jeff Buckley, Bloodlined Calligraphy, From Autumn To Ashes, Pedro the Lion, Reggie and the Full Effect, Killswitch Engage, Sleeping At Last, Poison the Well, Nodes of Ranvier, Norma Jean, The Chariot, mewithoutYou, As I Lay Dying, Winter Solstice, Chet Atkins, Avenged Sevenfold, Mae, Copeland, David Crowder Band, CCR, Jad Walters, Matt Redman, Chris Tomlin, Dead to Fall, Eighteen Visions, Embodyment, Five Iron Frenzy, Glassjaw, Franz Ferdinand, Foo Fighters, Jet, He Is Legend, Living Sacrifice, Novaflow, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Saves the Day, Scarlet, Converge, Still Remains, The Strokes, Switchfoot, Underoath, Thursday, Brand New, They Might Be Giants, The Promise Ring, Social Distortion, Dr. Dre, Geto Boys, Queen, Himsa, Long Time Coming, Alove for Enemies, The Clash, Pigeon John, The Smiths, Bob Dylan, Glass Casket, Ben Folds, Blessed By a Broken Heart, The Exploited, AFI, Alkaline Trio, All That Remains, Heavy Heavy Low Low, As Cities Burn, Blink-182, The Ataris, Emery, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Giles, Fatboy Slim, March of Seasons, Dufresne, Junior Senior, Lecrae, Grits, Pigeon John

Books:

James, Romans, Phillipians, C.S. Lewis books, Blue Like Jazz, Velvet Elvis, Through Painted Deserts, Searching For God Knows What, The Count of Monte Cristo, Praise Habit, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die, Genesis, Mark, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the rest of the Bible, Chronicles: Bob Dylan's Autobiography,
To Own a Dragon, Tale of Two Cities, The Iliad, Cash by Johnny Cash

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Went to Chicago on a last minute notice for no reason.

Entertained many hobos.

Snowboarded on the Dolomites.

I've been to Alaska.

Ran a marathon in Nov. 2008

Traveled through 16 cities in 13 European countries in a three and a half week time period.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'll teach you some tunes on guitar

I'd love to learn to cook some local food, and see the town and gain new friends

I'll share my 13,000 plus iTunes library, and any other knowledge I have about life in Italy, or in the U.S. or whatever I can share with you!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, Slovakia, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, United States

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