CURRENT MISSION

Making the perfect martini

ABOUT ME

First, I do not live from orgy to orgy, as I might have made you believe. I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe. I am quite sincere about some of the things which people take very lightly, and almost insulting unconcerned with some of the things which people take most seriously. In short, I am basically antisocial: certainly not to an alarming degree, but just more so than I appear to be.
And finally, the more I try to explain myself, the more apparent it becomes that I'm not doing a very good job of it

PHILOSOPHY

Don´t be niggardly

Always plan for your own stupidity

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have surfed:
1) Maxi, Barcelona, November 27-30 2008
2) Abdo, Amsterdam, December 26 to 29 2008
3) Bert, Bruges, December 29th 2008
4) Troels, Copenhagen, March 6th 2009
5) Marco, Hamburg, April ´09
6) Rainer, Freiburg, April ´09
7) Phillip, Vienna, June´09
8) Annaelle, Paris, July '09
9) Julien, Paris, July '09
10) Thibaud, Strasbourg, July '09
11) Anouck, Vincent, and Croquette, Lyon, July '09
12) Iacob, Aix-en-Provence, July '09
13) Loic, Marseille, July '09
14) Piotr, Krakow, Dec ´09-Jan ´10
15) Mauro, Bologna, Jan ´10
16) Mauro again, Bologna, July '10
17) Jeremie Bonnie Lydia Pascaline Christophe and Nicolas, Montreal, Dec '10-Jan'11
18) Boram, Daejeon, July '11

I hosted:
1) Santiago Soliz of Sacromento, CA, USA, September ´09 (¿Does it count if we were already friends?)
2) Sezgin and Bike, the Stranded Turks, November ´09
3) Any time Tom Spaeth (see friends) gets too drunk
4) Half of France from September 09 through June 10
5) Mauro´s Italian Invasion, May 2010
In Seoul:
6) Florent, Paris, March 2011
7) Asier, Bilbao, April 2011
8) Florent, again, Paris, Some August and September 2011

Other:
1) CS house party in Bordeaux, August ´09.

visited 19 states (8.44%)Create your own visited map of The World or Like this? try: Google Ransom Note

visited 19 states (38%)Create your own visited map of The United States or Like this? try: Mapped Web

Interests

I like traveling, good food, good wine, baseball, hockey, good books, good movies, good scotch, good beer, good rum, good vodka, good times with good people, a lot of things... good things

• books
• festivals
• dining
• wine
• beer
• partying
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• cycling
• baseball
• hockey
• world cup

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: 100 Years of Solitude,Love in the Time of Cholera, Anything Hunter S. Thompson, The Prophet, Brave New World, The Razor´s Edge, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Grapes of Wrath, On the Road, The Road, No Country for Old Men, Blood Meridian (anything Cormac McCarthy) Slaughterhouse-Five, Don Quixote, Homage to Catalonia, Lolita, East of Eden, Shantaram, The Savage Detectives, Shadow of the Wind

Music: Pearl Jam, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Led Zeppellin, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Clapton, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder, Damian Marley, Pink Floyd, Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash, Jefferson Airplane, Sublime, the Who, the Moody Blues, Billy Joel, Jimmy Buffett, Jimi Hendrix, CCR, Blue Oyster Cult, Robert Sarazin Blake, Mischief Brew, Why?, Gregory Todd Baker, Jack Johnson, could probably go on......

Movies: Ghostbusters (I and II, highly influential on me growing up), Field of Dreams, City Slickers, I´m Not There, Man on Wire, the Bridge, Air Guitar Nation, Doctor Zhivago, Casablanca, One Flew Over the Cuckoo´s Nest, Lars and the Real Girl, Tin Cup, Groundhog Day, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Quills, Annie Hall, the Shawshank Redemption, Sweeney Todd, the Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Schindler´s List, In Bruges, Big Fish, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, A Prophet... once again, i could go on..

TV: Arrested Development, Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Top Chef, Californication, Parks and Rec, Dexter

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've stood on the Western edge of Europe on a cliff overlooking the Atlantic in Portugal. I've seen the force of a category 4 hurricane rip through a town and my house (with me inside it). I partook in a mass pillow fight in Union Square, NYC. I went to Valencia for Las Fallas in 2009 and saw the sun blotted out from the sky and later partook in the crazy partying that filled the streets.

Spent 7 weeks in the Summer of 2009 in France... traveling, eating, drinking, WWOOFing, sleeping on the streets a couple of nights during Festival d´Avignon and one night in Paris after a good night of drinking... all sorts of good stuff

After 2 years of living in Spain, my final day July 11, 2010: Spain v. Holland, World Cup Final. Everybody on the edge of their seats and the jubilation when Andres Iniesta scored in the 116th minute. The craziness that filled the streets after. Only to stumble down to my friends place, collect my bags, and make my 7 a.m. bus.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Korea, Spain, United States

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