CURRENT MISSION

Get my travel bug out of my system for a bit

ABOUT ME

I'm a hopeful environmental professional and aspiring artist who's spent the last while bouncing around between camping and trailbuilding is various parts of the Western U.S. and attending school and socializing in Phoenix and Portland. Right now Portland is my base, though I'll be spending the next several months traveling and WWOOFing in Europe.

PHILOSOPHY

Harm reduction, radical consent, and Stewart Brand's Clock of the Long Now. On an aesthetic level, I struggle with Greenbergian criticism.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have surfed briefly in Tucson, Arizona, while leading a trail crew, and now I am looking for lodging on a 3-week, multi-country trip to Europe. When I am more settled eventually, I would love to host as well.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Little so far, but I hope to both surf and host thru this site.

Interests

Research reactors and nuclear power (I used to be an SRO at the Reed Research Reactor; environmentalism; Americorps; art history; painting; book arts, sculpture; architecture (religious architecture and contemporary landscape architecture especially); all varieties of literature; language; BDSM; animals; biology; ecology; most varieties of music, and string performance particularly; DIY; brain chemistry; hiking; kayaking; harm reduction; homeless outreach and activism; Right 2 Dream, Too in Portland (look into it!); conservation work; comic books; making new friends

• animals
• arts
• books
• literature
• performing arts
• architecture
• diy
• traveling
• socializing
• painting
• drawing
• music
• hiking
• kayaking
• camping
• art history
• biology
• chemistry
• ecology
• environmental studies
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Lorde, Purity Ring, Stromae, Marina and the Diamonds, The Velvet Underground, The Beatles, the Who, the Shins, Nina Simone, Odetta, Neko Case, the Clash, Sublime, Sam Cooke, Beethoven, J.S. Bach, Prokofiev, Copeland, Gnarls Barkley, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Metric, The Talking Heads, Kanye West, Belle and Sebastian, Fleet Foxes, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Dire Straits, Dexy's Midnight Runners, the Zombies, the Left Banke, Handel, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Mendelssohn

Movies: LotR trilogy, But I'm a Cheerleader, Jesus Christ Superstar, Princess Mononoke, Alien, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Patton, The Breakfast Club, Mean Girls, The Birdcage, Star Wars, True Grit (both versions), Ghost World, Across the Universe, A Fish Called Wanda, The Fountain, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, Anchorman, Zoolander, What About Bob?, The Blues Brothers, The Searchers, A Fistful of Dollars, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan

Books: Cloud Atlas, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, LotR trilogy and associated works (except The Silmarillion, seriously fuck that shit, life's too short), The Dragons of Eden, Dune, Invisible Man, Childhood's End, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Flowers for Algernon, The Psychology of Love, Notre-Dame de Paris, Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Pride and Prejudice, Madam Bovary, 1984, Frankenstein, No Exit, An Enemy of the People, Slaughterhouse 5, Finite and Infinite Games, Asterios Polyp, Watchmen, Preacher, Habibi, Henry and June, On the Road, Howl, the Dharma Bums, The Ancestor's Tale, On the Nature of Things, The Golden Ass, Mind by John Searle, the Iliad, Rivers of Empire, Nature's Metropolis, The Third Chimpanzee, Economics in One Lesson, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

This doesn't ask about TV, but to my possible detriment I'm going to point out that, most of the time, Tim and Eric's Awesome Show is what I'm looking for in entertainment

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Does recovering from depression count?

If it doesn't, I'm going to go with amazing things I've seen, and go with the gnarled trees on the Oregon Coast, that the wind has bent back so far that they are basically growing at a great angle to the east. Can never get enough of those.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd love to share figure drawing as a practice, and I'm pretty well learned in Environmental Studies. I also love to rant at anyone who will listen about my time as an operator at the Reed Research Reactor and my feelings on nuclear policy both in the United States and worldwide.

I'm looking for people who in general can sharpen my reasoning skills, and also those who can help me develop more extensive artistic, construction, and DIY skills.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I enjoy debate and I will play devil's advocate in the most non-confrontational way possible.

I clean up after myself, and am down to either chat and share my adventures, or quietly do my own thing

Countries I’ve Visited

Mexico, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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