CURRENT MISSION

It'll come to me...

ABOUT ME

I grew up all over California, but for the most part call the Central Coast my home. I went to school at the University of California - Santa Cruz, and pursued an education in Russian literature and jazz performance. Now graduated, I find myself still to be the wide-eyed youth of yesterday, ever open to new people and new horizons. I long for truth and love illusion.

PHILOSOPHY

'If hereafter any highly cultured, poetical nation shall lure back to their birthright, the merry May-day gods of old; and livingly enthrone them again in the now egotistical sky; on the now unhaunted hill; then be sure, exalted to Jove's high seat, the great Sperm Whale shall lord it.'-Herman Melville, from Moby Dick

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I try, whether couchsurfing or hosting.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was fortunate enough to vicariously host a number of CouchSurfers through a nest of good friends...and was enamored by the whole process. After traveling abroad and connecting with my own hosts, I was happily encouraged to return the favor. I find myself perpetually edified in the wake of that decision.

Interests

Russian culture, transnational literature, old movies, playing new instruments, hermeneutics, adventuring, Swedish Fish, language studies, gin rummy..

• fish
• culture
• literature
• performing arts
• education
• movies
• traveling
• jazz
• fishing
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:Eels; Bill Callahan/Smog; Dr. Dog; Paul Simon; Jim Croce; Mirah; Ry Cooder; Kris Kristofferson; Fela Kuti; Los Amigos Invisibles; The Temptations; Stevie Wonder; Lester Young; Joe Henderson; Cake..Movies:The Muppet Movie; Persona; The Apartment; Robin and the Seven Hoods; The Life Aquatic; Some Like It Hot; The Fall; Sleeper; M; Hedwig and the Angry Inch..Authors:Fyodor Dostoevsky; Nikolai Gogol; Mark Twain; Ken Kesey; Joseph Conrad; Jorge Luis Borges; Isaac Babel; Walt Whitman..

Countries I’ve Visited

Guatemala

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States