CURRENT MISSION

To acquire an equine grace with a bovine tempermant

ABOUT ME

I'm a pretty friendly and fun guy. I like to think of myself as a freethinker. I'm slow to anger, and I do my best to be polite, unless my attempted wittiness gets in the way. I am not a picky eater; I will try pretty much anything.

PHILOSOPHY

Damn it, we've got to be nice to one another!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I like to travel, but hate the tourist industry, whose purpose is to make money off people wanting to get out and experience something other than their own microcosm. I'm all for people traveling, and if they can get a free friend in a strange place, then here I am.

Interests

I am interested in just about everything. I'm sort of a jack of all trades. I can keep a pretty steady conversation going about philosophy, anthropology, biology, math, theatre, music, literature, movies, food, politics, and on and on. I'm also a beer and wine and cheese enthusiast. I play the drums, and I try to write.

• literature
• dining
• wine
• cheese
• beer
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• music
• drums
• anthropology
• biology
• mathematics

Music, Movies, and Books

My favorite authors are Kurt Vonnegut and Alexandre Dumas. I also like Marcel Proust, Jules Verne, William Shakespeare, Frank Herbert, and Charles Dickens.
Some musicians I like are Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Radiohead, Trilok Gurtu, The Flaming Lips, and Iron & Wine.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

An icestorm that covered absolutely everything, even individual blades of grass, in two centimeters of ice.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States