CURRENT MISSION

Laugh so hard I evaporate

ABOUT ME

Art & culture are fascinating! Adventure is everywhere! I particularly dig things urban and underground, music like glitch, hip hop, tech, avant garde, folk, roots, etc etc I love learning & reading & watching movies. Im helplessly curious about nearly everything and I strive to maintain humorous gratitude. I love physics and metaphysics and eastern philosophy and most things alternative. And I got that gnarly ADHD it's a lot of fun :):)
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PHILOSOPHY

"To burn always with this hard gemlike flame. To maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."
-Walter Pater

"So it goes."
-Kurt Vonnegeezy Fo Sheezy

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My hometown's San Diego and I love it! When I'm there I'm stoked to host or take people out and show them what makes it "America's Finest." On the road Im a clean & respectful surfer. I couchsurfed through Eastern Europe and each host totally enriched my experience... stoked to give back!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

This website is incredible. We are blessed to have found it.

Interests

music, conversation, writing, art, parties, literature, "the great outdoors", spirtuality, road trips, traveling, surfing

• arts
• culture
• writing
• literature
• folklore
• performing arts
• burningman
• festivals
• full moon party
• dancing
• cocktails
• partying
• drinking
• pub crawls
• off-roading
• technology
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• eating out
• music
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• surfing
• bungee jumping
• skydiving
• swimming
• physics
• road trips
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: 2ManyDjs, Jimi Hendrix, Black Angels, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Karsh Kale, Gold Panda, Fugazi, Broken Social Scene, Yellowman, Stereolab, Bonobo, Metallica, Blockhead, Chopin, Vivaldi, Janis Joplin, Gang of Four, The Smiths, Wes Montgomery, edIt, NIN... Spoken word is very cool. I also dig guided meditations.

Books: Beatniks... WOAH Alan Watts will blow your frickin mind! Prince of Tides, Norwegian Wood, Tropic of Cancer

Movies: David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, and Quentin Tarantino. Amelie, Edward Scissorhands, Run Lola Run, Baraka, Breathless (the French one by Godard), Waking Life, The Doors, The Animation Show series

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Bungee jump naked, Bungee jump on a bicycle in a storm while Sasha was DJing, skydive, eat a snake heart, celebrate Tet, explore Angkor Wat, hike on glaciers, party in a prison, full moon party, half moon party, spend 3 months on a farm, perform a dance routine for an audience of 2,000, ride an elephant, walk around a rainforest canopy, get mugged, get jumped, get eaten by a leech, attend a 4 night music festival in a Serbian medieval fortress, swim in Maya Bay, dj nightclubs, be in Love, Langkawi Cable Car, breakdance on the ocean floor, swim with big sharks, spend 3 days off-roading on a sand island, paddle out in Bali, get in a car accident, Burningman, navigate Japan for 3 weeks, river raft in the desert, hike a volcano at sunrise, explore a grove of sequoia trees, live in a noodle house, sleep in a Navajo hogan, ride a scooter through Saigon, rockclimb, sled down sand dunes, tour New Zealand in a campervan with 4 amazing Swedish girls, Laos 'tubing', ride a friendly sea-turtle, spend 2 years in a fraternity house, smoke hookah with Bedouin Egyptians in the white desert, drink cocktails in a thermal bathe during a gnarly storm, jump off a skytower... in college, when I lived at the beach, we had a 'skinnydip after pubs' tradition.
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Teach, Learn, Share

I'm into music... I got GBs & GBs of that electonic stuff Groove Armada and STS9, that mellow stuff Bat for Lashes and Warpaint, that folk stuff The Dodos and Andrew Bird, that world stuff like Celia Cruz and Fela Kuti, that rock stuff Led Zepplin and CCR, that reggae stuff like Yellowman and Sizzla, etc etc... I'd love to give or show you it all!!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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