CURRENT MISSION

To hop around the world until my legs fall off, following music and soccer, with sporadic pit stops in the motherland

ABOUT ME

im a sarcastic, outgoing, witty, spontaneous, only occasionally capitalizing, cheese and beer loving, responsibility ducking, constant head phone wearing, used t-shirt donning, copyrighted media infringing, favorite book rereading, ah-nold quoting, carpal tunnel onsetting, noun searching for... guy. oof, that was weak.

PHILOSOPHY

these things happen

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

well i cant really say since i just signed up for the thing, but i certainly like the concept and we'll see how i participate in the time to come

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

well i never called it couch surfing before, but ive defintely been known to indulge. not to mention my parent did the whole au pair thing to nanny my sister and i when we were younger, so in a sense i was raised by couch surfers...

Interests

im interested in anything thats interesting, but to narrow that down:
music
soccer (by the way, i move that we rename american football to 'tackleball.' how often do those meatheads use their feet anyway?)
canoeing and kayaking
preschooling
history
sci-fi
traveling
hole in the wall bars
24 hour diner coffee

• books
• cheese
• beer
• coffee
• traveling
• music
• canoeing
• kayaking
• surfing
• american football
• soccer
• world cup
• communications
• history
• au-pair

Music, Movies, and Books

tunes:
Depeche Mode, Underworld, New Order/Joy Division, Modest Mouse, De La Soul, The Pharcyde, Tribe, !!!, Basement Jaxx, The Cure, Built to Spill, Califone, Daft Punk, DJ Cam, DJ Shadow, James Lavelle, the Faint, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Metric, Mirah, Mos Def, Talib, Nina Simone, Outkast, Portishead, RJD2, Roots Manuva, the shins, the smiths, tricky, tv on the radio, bloc party, m83, beta band, vitalic, ace of base, arcade fire, andrew bird, devotchka, cake, the russian futurists, the decemberists, timbaland, hot chip, of montreal, yann tiersen, blonde redhead, the chemical brothers, the clash, gorillaz, james brown, the prodigy, peace wyze funktion...

pictures:

trainspotting, mad max, road warrior, snatch/lock stock, 12 monkeys, fight club, traffic, aliens, lola rennt, ronin, lost in translation, almost famous, high fiedlity, brazil, evil dead II, pulp fiction, goodbye lenin, swingers, running man, predator, children of men, indiana jones, the big lebowski (bad movies that are great: starship troopers, event horizon, cube)

words:

neuromancer william gibson, zodiac neal stepheson, high fidelity nick hornsby, glue irving welsh, of mice and men john steinbeck, the wonderful story of henry sugar and 6 others roahld dahl, cloudy with a chance of meatballs judi & ron barrett, barcelona chairs alexi sayle, hitchhikers guide douglas adams, cats cradle vonegut

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My recent favorite was teaching the Czech soccer fans the 'America! Fuck Yeah!' song from Team America on a fire hazard violating, oxygen deprived tram to Gelsenkirchen's stadium during World Cup 06. They thrased us, 3-0, by the way.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you to play the Tetris theme song on your cheeks...

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, Spain, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Korea, United Kingdom, United States