CURRENT MISSION

I want to absorb and bathe in the beauty and pleasure of every moment of my life.

ABOUT ME

In 2013-14 backpacking and hitchhiking from Mexico to Chile! I am looking forward to meeting lots of musicians and experiencing the love of Latin America :)

My name is Devin and I make music, read and write, play the guitar, sing, listen to music and I love going to an excellent concert. I also really enjoy photography. Really, I'm interested in most creative/artistic forms.

Of course I love traveling. I also love eating great food and I enjoy cooking and learning new recipes.

I really enjoy getting to know people from diverse cultures, and learning about their culture from social, political, culinary and artistic points of view.

I love learning new phrases and words from all languages. I sometimes fantasize about being fluent in ALL LANGUAGES. At least, I make plans about what language to learn next.

I lived and studied in Barcelona, España for one year in 2008-2009. This was one of the best experiences of my life. I became fluent in Spanish and I really fell in love with traveling.

I always love meeting MUSICIANS! Or music lovers/people that encourage me to play my songs out and about.

Hopefully we'll meet soon!

Here's my music:

http://boligrafo.bandcamp.com

PHILOSOPHY

I live my life because I want to soak up and learn about as much as possible and communicate this with others through art.

I want to see the world and speak with the people in their native tongue, learning about what I would never know otherwise.

I draw inspiration from the creative capacity of the human brain

I believe in being compassionate and respectful. I always try to keep a positive mood, because that's when I enjoy myself most.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I surf couches and I offer my couch to surfers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have surfed many couches, and hosted surfers with and without the Couchsurfing platform.
I often offer rides on Craigslist and rideshare with others, and I help out my fellow human by offering compassion and conversation.

Interests

Everything.
hahah well maybe not EVERYTHING.

I am interested in living contently. I am living as the creative soul that I long to be.

I write melodies and string them together into songs that can evoke emotions and feelings of sadness, happiness, lust, love, loss, regret, and resolve.

I have fun playing the guitar, writing, reading, photographing, absorbing the world around me and talking with people.

• arts
• culture
• writing
• singing
• photography
• beauty
• concerts
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• running
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• guitar
• piano
• drums
• backpacking
• hunting
• teaching
• languages
• software
• hitchhiking
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Beirut
The Dirty Projectors
Radiohead
Tune Yards
Talking Heads
Bibio
Born Ruffians
Animal Collective
Deerhunter
The Dodos
The Beatles
and previous loves include Mahavishnu Orchestra, Yes, Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Tears for Fears, Sublime, Pink Floyd very much, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, King Crimson!, Justice, Jimi Hendrix, Herbie Hancock, Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa, Daft Punk, Dave Matthews Band, Chick Corea, and Bob Marley.

Movies: I am searching for a new bright director to follow. I really like Stanley Kubrick films like Dr. Strangelove, a Clockwork Orange, the Shining, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. I also like Quentin Tarintino films, even though he does get a liiiiitle violent haha. Daaren Aronofsky films: Pi, Requiem for a Dream, the Fountain. Fight Club, Memento, the Machinist, City of God. I really like interesting films that stimulate your thoughts, if it's got a twist in there too that can be pretty cool as well. But I'm usually up for anything

Writing:
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Charles Bukowski
Bret Easton Ellis
The Ballad of the Sad Café (Carson McCullers)
Kurt Vonnegut Novels like Cat's Cradle
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Lolita
Heart of Darkness
poetry of John Keats

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Cadaqués. Amazing little beach town on the tip of a peninsula in Spain near the French border. White houses run up windy, uneven roads that overlook the Mediterranean. Dalí lived nearby and his house is a museum now.
Sitting in a mediocre hotel in Figueres drinking pouring moscatel into our mouths, laughing and having a great time.

Correfoc in Barcelona. People huddle and dance around people in the street holding fireworks that shower everybody with sparks while giant floats designed as dragons, demons, gargoyles, and pigs roll down the street shooting more sparks.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you things about:

Guitar (I am a guitar teacher)
Bass, drums, ukulele, piano, sitar, tabla, and other instruments
Computer recording software (Pro Tools, Garage Band, Reaper, Max/MSP, etc.) I have taught classes in Pro Tools
Music (music theory, reading music)
English (I am an English teacher and majored in English at UC Santa Barbara)
Spanish (I am a Spanish teacher)
Cooking (I love cooking, healthy cooking especially!)

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Czech Republic, French Polynesia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Peru, Spain, United States

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