CURRENT MISSION

To be too legit to quit!

ABOUT ME

Friendly, polite, silly sense of humour.

PHILOSOPHY

'Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.'
Plato

'He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.'
Socrates

'We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.'
Bill Watterson

'Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.'
Chuck Palahniuk

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

New to the CS thing. Hoping to travel and be hosted, and then when I'm back home to host others. Be great to meet some new people and cook them dinner. ;)

Interests

Art, drawing, painting, music, concerts, comics, books, movies, cooking, yoga, NHL, coffee, video games, animals.

• animals
• arts
• books
• design
• illustrations
• concerts
• cooking
• recipes
• coffee
• yoga
• comics
• movies
• video games
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• music
• animation
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Chuck Palahniuk, Alan Moore, William Gibson, Cormac McCarthy, Neil Gaiman, graphic novels, Calvin & Hobbes, sci fi, philosophy, comedy, etc

Film/TV: The Dark Knight, Inception (Anything by Christopher Nolan), Nightmare Before Christmas (Tim Burton = love!), Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Little Miss Sunshine, Royal Tenenbaums (Anything by Wes Anderson!), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Cove, The Terminator, Aliens, Fight Club, Hot Rod, Monty Python, It's Always Sunny, Seinfeld, Arrested Development, Portlandia, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, Futurama, Simpsons, Kids In The Hall, NHL hockey, sci fi, comedy, action, foreign, etc

Music: Post-punk, Shoegaze, New wave, "indie", 80's, gothic, experimental, classical -- Joy Division, Pixies, Modest Mouse, Queens of the Stone Age, Sonic Youth, Nirvana, the XX, Wolf Parade, Arcade Fire, Male Bonding, Sigur Ros, Beach House, Cold War Kids, Interpol, Tapes n Tapes, You Say Party, The Cure, etc. Love live music and taking a chance on locals/new bands.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Epic struggle that ultimately ended in my map being forcibly eaten by a really strong-willed and "strong-mouthed" goat in a shrine in Miyajima, Japan!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach:
-basic to intermediate Japanese
-basic to advanced drawing, illustration, caricatures, design, painting, digital painting, storyboarding, animation, comics, Photoshopping, website design and publication

Share:
-cook for you, share recipes (I'm told I'm a pretty good cook, I'd say intermediate)
-will share my last cookie with you

I would love to learn about other cultures, other cities, other languages (Was starting to learn basic Spanish!), about others' philosophies and experiences.. Anything really!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Japan, Mexico, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada