CURRENT MISSION

When I'm ready for it, life finds me.

ABOUT ME

I'm following the currents. I'm living and teaching in Korea until I have cause to move elsewhere. I strive to keep a simple life and focus my attention on what matters. Write now most of my time is spent writing a zombie novel with my best friend, playing Magic the Gathering, studying Korean, and watching movies. I'm not much on the whole party scene. I just don't have much interest is all.

PHILOSOPHY

This, too, shall pass.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm hoping to sleep on some friendly couches in NZ this coming Winter and I've been strongly considering opening up my own home to the restless and weary traveler.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet.

Interests

Astronomy--Carl Sagan, Mythology--Joseph Campbell, Psychology--Carl Jung, Literature--too many to name but some of my favs are Henry Miller, Bukowski, and Murakami, again, playing copious amounts of Magic the Gathering, watching movies, reading graphic novels--currently reading Moore's V for Vendetta, sitting on leather couches, seeing parts of the world, Asian people, Jewish people, Indian food, learning Korean, New Zealand, the Moon, most things fantasy related, girls that can make me laugh, all sorts of music...

• writing
• books
• literature
• coloring
• dining
• indian food
• partying
• movies
• reading
• magic
• music
• astronomy
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies--fav directors are the Coen Brothers and P.T. Anderson. There Will Be Blood. Cloverfield. Barton Fink. Election. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Being There. Big Labowski. Oldboy. Silmido. Memories of Murder. other Korean movies whose name i cant remember. Sin City. How to kill your neighbor's dog. Solaris. Adventures of Baron M. Anchor Man. Return to OZ. One Hour Photo. Gangs of New York. Spirited Away. Vampire Hunter D. The Man Who Wasn't There. Punch Drunk Love. 8 1/2. Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Office Space. Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas. Hurly Burly. Blue Velvet. Pineapple Express. 2001 A Space Odyssey. Way of the Gun. Grandma's Boy. Dawn of the Dead. Children of Men. The Fountain. Burn After Reading. My Dinner With Andre. Gray's Anatomy. Swimming to Cambodia.

Music--anything Thymme Jones puts his hands on. YES. Tom Waits. Depeche Mode. Atmosphere. DJ Shadow. Refused. Bjork. Hella. Liars. Smashing Pumpkins. Portishead. Wicked Farleys. Godspeed you Black Emperor. Silver Mount Zion. Kronos Quartet. The Knife. Dead Gods. Hangedup. Debashish Bhattacharya. Lightning Bolt. 31 Knots. The Knife. Radiohead. Sigur Ros. Bad Religion. Deltron. Rapture. Clint Mansell. MGMT. Brandon Bordenkircher. Loscil. Philip Glass. Sage Francis. Tomahawk. Blind Guardian. Cradle of Filth. Opeth. US Maple. Fugazi. Michael Jackson. Lovage. Mike Patton. Sigh. Otis Redding. !!!. This Heat. Common. The Roots. Fela Kuti. Tool. KK Rampage. Lost Robot. Ntelos. To be honest I thoroughly enjoy the entire Rampage Records line up. Squirrel Nut Zippers. Lake of Dracula. The Faint. The Beach Boys. Jimi Hendrix. Soul Coughing. VCR. Dethklok. Magma. MC Chris. TV on the Radio. Library Tapes. Goldmund. RJD2. Kronos.

Books--Some of my best friends are books. Become What You Are-Alan Watts. Cloud Atlas-David Mitchell Favorites: Plexus, well anything by Henry. Tales of Ordinary Madness by Bukowski. House of Leaves. Aquariums of P'yongyang. Siddhartha. Nine Stories-well Bananafish and Teddy. Universe in a Nutshell. Choke. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. World War Z. The Devil in the White City. Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials, The Wheel of Time series, The Sword Of Truth series. To Sift Through Bitter Ashes-Vampire Trilogy. Fantasy in general totally rocks me. The Hobbit was the first book that got me into reading. Alan Watts. Joseph Campbell. Philosophy. Psychology-Freud and Jung mostly. Ghostwritten. The Watchmen. The Killing Joke. Alan Moore in general is a pretty kick ass writer. Honestly, I'm not too hot on poetry, but Reggie Gibson and some Bukowski stuff are alright by me. Mostly short stories and novels.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived in Hawaii for 3 1/2 years.

Teach, Learn, Share

In extremely rare cases of multiple personality disorder, when the patient is severely psychotic, the patient's eye color can change when they take on these other personalities--coolest thing I ever learned in school.