I’m somewhere between a working class punk and an old timey rancher.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because I have a large space, a lot of time, and I like hosting!

Interests

Music, food, making things out of metal, sleeping, driving, diving, flying, singing, jiujitsu, growing things, taking care of animals, graphic novels (comics), board games, motorcycles, ancient things, machines, veganism, kindness, lutallica, stories, cider, lambs wool, and more!

• arts
• performing arts
• video games
• music
• cycling

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC (too long)
-Oi! (Hard Skin, 4 Promille, 4 Skins, The Oppressed, Sham 69, The Stage Bottles, The Oi! Scouts, etc)
-Reggae and Soul (Toots and the Maytals, Alton Ellis, Max Romeo, John Holt, Bob Marley, The Paragons, The Pioneers, etc)
-Hardcore (Product of Waste, Negative Approach, Gorilla Biscuits, Black Flag, Cro-Mags, Minor Threat, Backtrack, Bane, Rotting Out, Outlook, Black Breath, Integrity, Agnostic Front, etc)
-Doom metal (Castle, Electric Wizard, Black Sabbath, Windhand, Skeep, Subcontra)
-Death Metal and Melodic Death (Nile, Cryptopsy, Exhumed, Dying Fetus, Impaled, At the Gates, In Flames, Byfrost)
-Grind (Napalm Death, Laughing Dog, AG)
-Thrash (Municipal Waste, Toxic Holocaust, Menacer, Aura Noir)
-Crust and D-beat (Anatomi-71, Communion of Thieves, Wolvhammer, New Lows, Nomads, M:40, Skitsystem)
-Country, Blues, and Folk (Doc Watson, Johnny Cash, Gordon Lightfoot, Willy McTell, Lightnin Hopkins, Mumford and Sons, Tallest Man on Earth, Frank Sinatra, Hank I, II, and III)
-Hip-Hop (Tupac, Pharoahe Monch, Devin the Dude, Immortal Technique, Beastie Boys, WU-TANG, Bone Thugz, NWA, Ice Cube, Coolio)
-Industrial (NIN, Psyclon Nine, Funker Vogt, GodModule, Imperative Reaction, Suicide Commando, KMFDM and MFMDK, SKINNY PUPPY, etc)
-Classical (Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Rachmoninoff, Paganini, Handel)
-Black Metal (Ludicra, Dissection, Bathory, Ulver, Immortal, Lifelover)
-Classics! (The Ink Spot, Ella Fitzgereld, Frank Sinatra, Julie London)
-And pretty much everything in between, from Ace of Base to Xibulba.

BOOKS

Peter Hamilton, Alistair Reynolds, Robert Jordan, Terry Pratchett, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Fry, David Rakoff, Franklin Veuex, Eve Rickert, Douglas Adams, FRANK HERBERT, Patrick Rothfuss, Larry Niven, are a few of the authors I enjoy, but again, this list is too extensive and I already over did the music part!

MOVIES

I really enjoy sci-fi. Blade Runner, Dune, and Fifth Element are clear leaders of the pack as far as movies go.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I used to hop freight trains, and now I work for Union Pacific as a conductor. I’ve been all over the world and my hobbies are pretty broad.
Once I spent 2 weeks in Paris sleeping in a box at night and performing during the day. Just for fun.

Teach, Learn, Share

My skills are pretty expansive. I've done it all from digging ditches to managing personnel records to hoboing for seasonal work. Really there isn't many things I am incapable of doing, and I enjoy teaching. I’m a blacksmith by hobby and a train conductor by profession. I own 2 record labels and used to work as a promoter.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Besides stories and my brilliant company!? Well, I know my way around the PNW, I’m a certified diver and can take you to some nice dive spots, I have 2 motorcycles and love riding, I have a full smithy with a coal forge and anvil, and love working on projects of all types, I have tons of cute animals, I’m a musician and like to jam, and I’m a damn fine cook, if I do say so myself!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States