Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love meeting new people, exploring new places, living and sharing new experiences. I strongly support the concept of an open and exciting traveling community and look forward to making new friends from different lands!

Interests

Painting on unorthodox canvas, mechanical pencil sketching, hiking and exploring new zones, adventuring about, paper mache creations, video editing, inventing, photography, film, graphic novels, videogames, hip hop jams, music you can feel, being the Danny Glover of breakdancing because I'm getting too old for that shit, longboard cruises, cycling, canoeing: preferably down stream, dodgeball in the gym, basketball in the park, wallyball in the winter, boardgames with beers, good ol' fashion skeeball, storytelling over a fire, firework by the river, Rube Goldberg machines, the smell of rain and watching storms a brewin'

• theater
• fashion
• photography
• sketching
• beer
• running
• flying
• traveling
• painting
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• canoeing
• basketball

Music, Movies, and Books

Music
Atmosphere, A Tribe Called Quest, Bruce Springsteen, The Mountain Goats, Okkervil River, Childish Gambino, J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, John Carpenter, Kid Cudi, Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Nas, Masta Ace, Doomtree, MC Paul Barman, The Band, Bob Dylan, Run the Jewels, Mr. Lif, Rolling Stones, The Wu-Tang Clan

Movies
Repo Man, Dog Day Afternoon, Escape from New York, Meteor Man, The Thing, Good Will Hunting, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, The Conversation, One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest, Hollywood Shuffle, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, The Third Man, Heat, Goodfellas, Casino, Jaws, Blade Runner, The Warriors, The Deer Hunter, The Road Warrior, Boogie Nights, Network, Hard Boiled, The Conformist, Touch of Evil, Jurassic Park, The Terminator, Their Will Be Blood, Prince of Darkness, Hard Eight, Do the Right Thing, Jackie Brown, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, The Usual Suspects, Midnight Run, Serpico, Sin City, Memento, The Shining, Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Drunken Master. Documentaries by Louis Theroux and Adam Curtis.

Books
The Phantom Tollbooth, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, A People's History of the United States, You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Johnny Got His Gun, Brave New World, Pickman's Model, The Learning Tree, Orphans of the Sky, The Killing Joke.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once backpacked across Isle Royale back when it was populated with a quite a few more wolves and ended up running for my life from a charging moose. That was pretty crazy. I also once organized a ragtag crew of movie theater cleaning staff member into a "flying V" formation to clean a multiplex lobby until I was asked politely not to do so, BUT not before I was thanks for my enthusiasm. I've beaten Contra for the NES without losing a single life (my brother as my witness!) and I produced a feature length about political satirist and perenial presidential candidate Vermin Supreme. I fear I've stated more that one neat.......

Countries I’ve Visited

Mexico, Morocco, South Korea, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States