CURRENT MISSION

Find a place to stay in Iowa City this Thursday

ABOUT ME

I like encountering things I haven't encountered before.

PHILOSOPHY

People who have personal philosophies generally take themselves too seriously.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Not sure yet

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Not sure yet

Interests

Roald Dahl, Scrabble, Scuba Diving, good artwork, ghost stories, that bump on the bottom edge of the top part of your ear that feels like it shouldn't be there and should be checked out, but actually is supposed to be there. And basketball.

• dining
• cooking
• cartoons
• drawing
• piano
• blues
• scuba diving
• basketball

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Jurassic Park, Dr. Strangelove, Thank You for Smoking, the Blues Brothers, All of the Muppet Movies, Rush Hour, The Prestige, The Best Years of Our Lives

MUSIC: Otis Redding, Al Green, Dr. John, Sam & Dave, Parliament, Paul Simon, BB King, Ray Charles, Jimmy Buffett, Three 6 Mafia, Rufus Thomas, Mystikal, Ramsey Lewis, Professor Longhair, Van Morrisson, Stevie Wonder, Buddy Guy, Harry Belafonte, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Randy Newman, ragtime and live brass.

BOOKS: Roald Dahl's Short Stories, Hitchhiker's Guide Series, A Confederacy of Dunces, Catch-22, Long Walk to Freedom, Harry Potter, Crime and Punishment, Invisible Cities, histories of things, and War and Peace (I don't want to sound like a pretentious snob putting it down, but I genuinely found it absolutely amazing and will talk for hours about it if anybody else out there has read it as well, except nobody else has and I'm generally alone on this conversation).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Great White Sharks. Like face to face. With tiny little cage bars between us. I was going to be ironically funny in this response, but then I'm like, 'no, I've seen fucking GREAT WHITE SHARKS in person up close, I'm going to say that.' Seriously, it opened its mouth near my face. I could see its tonsils.

Teach, Learn, Share

Things I know:
-ragtime and blues piano
-cartoons
-what 17 simultaneous wasp stings to the face feels like
-how to talk behind someone's back in Greek
-how many secret service people it takes to guard the bathroom while Newt Gingrich takes a shit
-how to cook me some meat food
-how to cook me some non-meat food
-Xhosa tongue twisters
-Swedish labor relations in the 1930's
-the differences between 2-toed and 3-toed sloths
-how to win a watermelon eating competition
-how to listen to a conspiracy theorist and act like you believe him
-other things

THINGS I DON'T KNOW:
-complicated knots
-how to do a good pratt fall
-the Queen
-how to completely get all pencil marks out of my cartoons without abandoning drawing and using a computer
-all the things I don't know

THINGS I KINDA KNOW:
-how to Duggie

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Botswana, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Mozambique, Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States