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Overview

  • 13 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 40, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Writing, playing music, walking, usually simultaneously.
  • Travel, work, university, failed romance
  • From Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Breathing

ABOUT ME

When I have a job, I'm broke and when I'm unemployed I survive. I like to keep my surroundings fresh and keep changing the angle I'm looking from so I'll have something to write about and validate being another germ trapped by gravity on this delightful planet.

PHILOSOPHY

Stay in a constant state of becoming. Be very careful what you make Point B.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Being a dharma bum.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've been hitchhiking quite a bit around the coast of California this past month and there have been times when I've been dropped in random towns at 8pm where I know I'll either have to find a couchsurf or find a quiet corner in to sleep outside which is fairly dangerous in some places between the cops, the high unemployment rate in some places and the 70 pounds of back package and guitar I'm traveling with... People have been so kind and generous that I can't help but try to extend what little I do have outwards to people that I'm encountering along my way. I love this site, it's a godsend!

Interests

anything/anyone with melody.

  • writing
  • traveling
  • guitar
  • hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Stanley Kubrick, Ray Carver, Hunter Thompson, Jim Jarmusch, Ernest Hemingway, CHARLES BUKOWSKI, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Joanna Newsom, Nick Cave, Kurt Vonnegut, Lars Von Trier, Radiohead, After the Weather, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Chad VanGaalen, David Bazan, Fleet Foxes, Fugazi, Todd Solondz

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Aurora Borealis filling the whole sky. I thought it would suck me into another galaxy.

Teach, Learn, Share

I like teaching guitar and happy to lend some principles on writing songs.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Monaco, Spain, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada

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