CURRENT MISSION

like evo morales says "to live well, not to live better"

ABOUT ME

I believe in reciprocity, in local food, in human goodness, and in haunting and powerful punk / hardcore music. I aspire to play the trumpet and learn Tai Chi, but most of my time seems to go towards teaching 7th grade. I am a former vegan who is respectful of your dietary preferences. A non-dogmatic anarchist who is a fan of short stories, accordians, and impossible possibilities.

PHILOSOPHY

I believe in anarchism because I believe that we are capable of making a just society and living well on the earth. Oh, and I reject the wackjob tendencies in anarchism . . . I want to enjoy life and leave the world a better place than when I arrived.

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Places I have surfed: Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Texas, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and many others . . .

I have traveled big distances by passenger train, freight train, Greyhound, hitchhiking, flying, driving, bike touring, and backpacking.

Centres d'intérêt

labor organizing, punk music, hardcore music, klezmer, jazz, revolutionary politics, skateboarding, ravens, brewing beer, olive oil, language, fiction, culinary history, tea, the IWW

• dining
• beer
• vegan
• flying
• gardening
• politics
• homebrewing
• music
• punk music
• jazz
• trumpet
• cycling
• backpacking
• skateboarding
• history
• hitchhiking

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Music:

godspeed! you black emperor, john coltrane, thelonius monk, charles mingus, the atom orbit sequence, jose de molina, nina simone, fela kuti, tom waits, damad, kylesa, calexico, reagan youth, black flag, gruk, from ashes rise, subhumans, tribe called quest, black star, mr lif, j church, at the gates, storm the tower, bullet train mafia, roñoso, ruinacre, unruh, vicente fernandez, los crudos, fallas de sistema, tragedy, the bots, angry samoans, the clash, M.I.A., bullyrag, james brown, isaac hayes, del tha funkee homosapien, victor jara, woody guthrie, john lee hooker, negativland, stiff little fingers

Books:
Assata, Just Passing Through, the upside down world, labor history, World War 3, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Eduardo Galeano, Albert Memmi, the story of a shipwrecked sailor, Returning as Shadows, Out of the Night, Rebellion of the Hanged, american holocaust

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

I rode my bike across Washington state, hitchhiked in Mexico, slept in a botanical garden in LA, fell in love, survived all those bad jobs, fought the bosses (and won!), ollied over a handrail, and saw the sun rise in Southern Florida.