CURRENT MISSION

Embrace the past / Surrender to the Present / Create the Future

ABOUT ME

Mi vida en los últimos años se convirtió en un ritmo irregular entra trabajo y la vida doméstica en Kalamazoo Michigan, y viajar. Ahora estoy experimentando con vivir sin viajar Sudamerica.

Sometimes I live at home in Kalamazoo, where I have a job, a house, a couch, and a community to try to work on. Then, sometimes I don’t have all that stuff, and I travel indefinitely for a while. Eventually the ways of the road get tiring and the gravity of my hometown draws me back, my mind full of stories to tell. I see stories everywhere I go and in everything I do. My goal is to write them. I have a great number of goals, but this one is the most encompassing: using stories to affect the world.

PHILOSOPHY

As a rambling philosophy geek, I can't allow myself the use of open pros to talk about philosophy in this small a space, so please enjoy these equations: everything/one is everything/one. zero = infinity. Everything is excellent; nothing is okay. Silence is defeat. everything is propaganda. This world is what you make it. Capitalism is organized crime. That everything dissolves in humor, is the divine comedy. Fine lines are for dull minds. Social elitism is wide-beam oppression (as opposed to specific genres of oppression like classism or homophobia in which the beam is focused in on a specific demographic). Nouns are verbs that got mixed up with the wrong crowd. Stagnation is illusion; reality is a flux. Inaction is complacency. Complacency is perpetuation.

Todo es todo. cero esta igual de infinidad. todo esta perfecto pera nada esta okay. El silencio es la derrota (en sentido politico). Esta mundo es lo que hagas. Capitalismo esta crimen organizado. Todo se desuelve en las risas y esta es el comedia divina. Sustentivos son verbos caídos. Stagnación esta ilusión, el mundo esta un flujo. Inacción esta complecencia. Complecencia esta perpetuación.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I just got back from a trip in Europe, surfing, and hanging out with local couchsurfing groups. Now I'm home in Kalamazoo and looking forward to hosting people when they come, when the tourist industry in Kalamazoo revs up(any day now), or the when the 86 cool couchsurfers in this city all happen to be busy at the same time. Oh look: I wrote some kind of couchsurfing theory at the bottom of this profile. It might sound kind of dense and bombastic, but it's stuff I've been thinking about for ALL THE TIME, check it out!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Much couchsurfing in Europe and a little in the states. All good times to varying degrees.. On the hosting front, I've only hosted one person one night. It's not that I don't want to host people, but that the couchsurfing community in Kalamazoo is many times larger than the number of people who actually want to visit. Darn, I guess I'll have to move to another country with big mountains or something, like Peru, just to get people to populate my couch.

Sofas son como cimas de las montañas. Me gusta a escalar a uno, y ver una otra en la distencia, y medir la destencia entra los dos en grados de interacción y amistad, para tener un sentido pequeño de la larga cinta que estira entra los todos.

La problema es que mi ciudad de origen, Kalamazoo, no tiene turistas, así solo recibí uno couchsurfer en algo como 5 años. Entonces voy a vivir en Peru donde los viajistas vayan.

Interests

Aprender Español, libros, guera de la media y información, palabras, el medio ambiante, mytología del mundo, Tao, hormigas, poesía, anarchismo, existentialismo, psycholgía de Carl Jung, anime, novellas graphicos, películas, la ciencia ficción y fantasía, surfear, la cuerda floja, bailar un poco, filosofía y arte, y escribir. Especialamente escribir.

Books, media war, words, tree's, yoga, Bikes, anime movies, manga, graphic novels, world mythology, Tao, animals, insects, horizontal framework, poetry, DIY, the future, making gestures towards self education but not fooling myself into thinking i'm learning as quickly as I would if I was actually taking classes, zines, art, Jungean psychology, libertarian socialism, anarchism, existentialism, People's movements in Latin America, People's movements everywhere else, mental health treatment, mental health politics, fantasy, casterboard (ripstick), slackline, paradoxes

• animals
• insects
• arts
• books
• poetry
• diy
• education
• yoga
• politics
• anime
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• surfing
• communications
• teaching
• psychology
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Rock in roll in general is my bedrock. Specifically, punk rock sits in the center, with hardcore, ska, indie rock, hip hop, classical, folk, and many others gathered around it. Music is swell. I can't list specific bands cause that would be impossible. With movies I can be into pretty much every Genre. Out of all artistic mediums, i'm up for the most variety in film. I love Terry Gilliam, Alfonso Cuaron, Miyazaki, Danny Boyle. I can't list specific titles if i plan on getting any sleep tonight. I like Anime. Naruto, Evangeline,FLCL, Habaine Ramnai and manny more. With books: Herman Hesse, Niel Gaiman, Orwell, Lord of the Rings, Dune, Johnny Got His Gun, and so manny more I can't try to list. I love fantasy, sci fi, historical. Sometimes I feel like I could be happy for the rest of my life just reading. I like Manga, and graphic novels, I'm really into Allen Moore. Poetry: Cummings and Blake are my top two. I try to always be reading both fiction and non fiction. In non fiction Noam Chomsky, Allen W. Watts, Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, and Nietzsche, are some major influences on my thinking. I spread my self really thin with reading: between novels, short stories, comics, poetry, philosophy, politics, and my new thing - play scripts and screenplays - it gets to be a lot like channel surfing.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've spent over five years working with developmentally disabled and mentally ill people, and recommend that everyone reading this do the same.

The Swiss Alps weren't bad either.

He trabajando con gente con eccentricidades mentales para 8 años

Teach, Learn, Share

-I love sharing stories, telling stories, creating stories with people.
-I like to play on slacklines (the more elastic equivalent of a tightrope) and am always up for giving people a lesson.
-I rarely shy away from conversations concerning litterature, politics, philosophy and movies.

-Puedo enseñarte Engles. Soy un maestro.
-Puedo darte un lexión en la cuerda floja. Siempre tengo uno cuando viajo.
-Creatividad: siempre yo tenga para compartir, y siempre yo busque mas!

Countries I’ve Visited

Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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