CURRENT MISSION

Occupy Everywhere!

ABOUT ME

I am passionate.

I like running in the rain.

I love taking long strolls in the rain.

I am fascinated by art history and architecture.

I read a lot of Nietzsche.

I cook nearly gourmet meals because nothing compares to indulging the body.

The one image in the entire world I cannot endure is that of children holding guns.

I believe in the power of human creativity to build an entirely new world for ourselves.

I am hopeful.

PHILOSOPHY

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. " - Henry David Thoreau

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

New to couchsurfing, but have worked/lived for many years trying to embody and extend the ethos manifested in the project.

Interests

Politics, Peace, Philosophy, Music, Tea, Slam Poetry, Best Friends, Stinging Sarcasm, Effervescent Wit, Quantum Physics, Human Warmth, Critical Theory, Intellect, Debate, and Languages

• arts
• poetry
• architecture
• dancing
• tango
• waltz
• ballroom dancing
• cooking
• running
• politics
• music
• art history
• history
• languages
• physics

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:

Classic Rock (Queen, the Beatles, the Eagles, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Fleetwood Mac, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, etc), Conscious Hip-Hop (Soliloquists of Sound, Akala, Public Enemy, Atmosphere, Subtle, Jedi Mind Tricks, Aesop Rock, etc), Classical (Arvo Part and John Cage are my favorites, Ravel, Satie, Debussey, Mozart, Wagner, Puccini, Verdi, etc) and a whole host of bands who defy any classification.

BOOKS:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche; To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said; The Dialectic of Enlightenment by Horkheimer and Adorno; The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera; Richard III by Shakespeare; Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson; If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien; Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov; The Little Prince by Antione de-Saint Exupery and more than I could ever list...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

OccupyChicago has really breathed a new life into me; the feeling of being amidst a sea of thousands of people all working toward the common goal of political, economic and social change, was probably the most amazing experience of my lifetime.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach Ballroom Dancing! If you want to learn a little bit of Swing, Tango, Cha-Cha, Rumba, Waltz, or Foxtrot, let me know!

I can also teach English, Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic.

Or we can read rad marxist-feminist philosophy together!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Canada, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Israel, Lebanon, Ukraine, United States