ABOUT ME

I currently live in Brussels. I am focusing my energies on running an educational non-profit organization focusing on education. I've produced several documentary films.

PHILOSOPHY

Create. Laugh. Create art in everyday life. Look for opportunities; if none, make them. Learn systems and improve them. Recognize that worthwhile benefits have risks. Find happiness by making others happy. Give. Try new things. Learn from everything and everyone.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted several guests in Boston through CS and another site. I've learned a lot from my guests, as I see my own city through a fresh perspective. I stayed with CS'ers during a year-long trip and am incredibly grateful for the generosity they've extended and for the adventures and fun that I've had with them.

Interests

Music, contemporary art, dropping irreverence into serious situations, city-walking, poetry, photography, taking jokes too far, basketball, talking or finding my way into places I shouldn't be, literature, humor, guitar, navel-gazing, sailing, stir-fries, films, discovering new places and friends.

• arts
• literature
• poetry
• contemporary art
• photography
• documentaries
• walking
• movies
• music
• guitar
• sailing
• basketball

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Belle & Sebastian, Leonard Cohen, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Andrew Bird, Neutral Milk Hotel, Franz Ferdinand, Devendra Banhart, Cat Power, Sigur Ros, Broken Social Scene, Daau, Arctic Monkeys, Bottom of the Hudson, Feist, Shearwater, Sarah Blasko, Dresden Dolls, David Bowie, Rogue Wave, Interpol, Cold War Kids, Coco Rosie, Al Green, Rolling Stones, Sam Cooke, The Decemberists, Ali Farka Toure, Doves, Modest Mouse, The Walkmen, French Kicks, British Sea Power, Gogol Bordello, Andres Segovia, The Veils, Suede, Radiohead, Iron Maiden, Mississippi John Hurt, The Faint, Furry Lewis, Muse, Blur, Pulp, Son House, Elbow, Elefant, The Smiths, Morrissey, Yasmin Levy, Dandy Warhols, Rachid Taha, The Standard, Starsailor, Thievery Corporation, Ahuvah Ozeri, Velvet Underground, The Verve, The White Stripes

Movies: Dr. Strangelove, The Kid (Chaplin, not Willis), Donnie Darko, The Big Lebowski, The Celebration, Magnolia, Amelie, Blade Runner, Double Life of Veronique, Raising Arizona, Fight Club, City of Lost Children, Dog Day Afternoon, The Accountant, Zoolander.

Some top-of-mind authors/photographers/poets: Franz Kafka, Flannery O'Connor, Bertrand Russell, Borges, Joseph Brodsky, TS Eliot, Czeslaw Milosz, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz, Mahmoud Darwish, Yehudah Amichai.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Macedonia, Morocco, Netherlands, Palestine, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Israel, United States

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