CURRENT MISSION

Read! Write!

ABOUT ME

Grad school, yo.

PHILOSOPHY

Yes pls

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Looking for couches and people to hang out with. Especially gay people. Especially gay couches.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm new to this. Seems awesome, though.

Interests

machines that go fast, Marxism, theater (of cruelty!), cooking adequately, learning dead languages, relic-hunting, medieval manuscripts, opera, beer brewed by monks or other recluses, music made by sound engineers, rapturous delirium, close reading, poetry but *my god* not writing any myself, liberation theology, adorable kittens, all manner of insane religious ceremonies and ritual (professional interest, I swear). Back in the day I used to like riding motorcycles. I remember having time for hobbies; seems like I enjoyed them...

• writing
• literature
• poetry
• theater
• cooking
• beer
• motorcycles
• reading
• music
• opera
• hunting
• divinity
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: Inglourious Basterds; the Cremaster Cycle; Hiroshima, Mon Amour; There Will Be Blood; Bunuel; Almodovar; Raoul Ruiz...

music: Matmos, Lucky Dragons, Nurse With Wound, Brian Eno, Belbury Poly, CoH, Raymond Scott, Robert Wyatt, Throbbing Gristle, Joanna Newsom, Iannis Xenakis, the Focus Group, Broadcast, Animal Collective, Wagner, Scientist, the Black Eyes, Alban Berg, DOOM...

books: Invisible Cities, The God of Small Things, White Teeth, The Satanic Verses, The Last Samurai, Totem and Taboo. Uh, I have a tattoo on my right forearm of the cover art from Of Grammatology, so I suppose I should include that here...

Teach, Learn, Share

Ha--I have a very specialized but largely unproductive knowledge of medieval and Renaissance literature. So, if you need help with an essay, or maybe scriptural exegesis, I'm your guy.