CURRENT MISSION

to make the cut in Spain without teaching the goddamn infernal English toungue! korea is finito!

ABOUT ME

I ditched ESL in Korea, with a savings, purchased a ticket to Spain, and made a pact with myself to live on the periphery: work unnoticed, improve my Spanish, sketch out this jabberwocky prose about my travels (to eventually publish). So far, I haven´t resorted to teaching English, which was another part of the pact. Monolanguage to monothought to god knows what. Growl. I´d rather not participate. Let´s all learn Arabic and Chinese. These languages will affect us more in the future anyhow. I currently work in the Andalucian countryside.

PHILOSOPHY

Value is a created entity. As such, no absolute value magically substantiates any activity or abstraction. I'm more interested in paradise on earth, rather than any elaborate metaphor for the hereafter. Earth is not paradise, so I'd like to diversify my coping techniques. Adaptability is ecstasy. All is constantly in flux, including people. The mysterious core self remains; people changing is the swinging from the center.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I´ve entertained couch surfers in Korea and have surfed myself in Denver. I met an incredible woman through that session, and we keep constant contact, with orgiastic eclectic poetry and prose that shakes the foundations of our bla bla world.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

One month with Karina of Estonia, where I learned humility lifts up those ego stricken.

Interests

conversations, motorcycles, scribbling my ideas and off-the-wall metaphors, sleeping outside, singing aloud wherever you are, reciting poetry, reading reading, sketching at times, smoking when the situation fits, sand in my bed, not knowing what tomorrow brings, staying outside office buildings

• poetry
• singing
• sketching
• motorcycles
• reading
• skydiving
• rock climbing
• paragliding
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Jorge Luis Borges is a necessary read. Allen Ginsberg is often quoted on my tongue. Walt Whitman makes me feel better about the whole show. William Faulkner is difficult, but gratifying. Holla for Herman Hesse. Orwell's 1984 was a high school obsession, as well as Edgar Allan Poe. And these days, Henry Miller all the way

Muse blows my eardrums and sensibilities away. Bright Eyes is an incredible lyricist. Mozart often visits me. Rusted Root is a tribal dance.

American History X, Fight Club, Life is Beautiful, Old Boy (Korean)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Barbaric yell from a stupa dating back around 1300, then I mosied to a mango tree and ate a guy that had fallen to the ground

Having resided for a time in the tube of a wave

Skydiving

Paragliding

Rock climbing

Waking up

Teach, Learn, Share

You will always have too many things. Constant readjustment involves realizing what is waste.

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