CURRENT MISSION

To create and pass on an organic, responsible hedonistic lifestyle, before the whole shit-house goes up in flames!

ABOUT ME

Single father for 16 years and now a proud husband. Born with and work with a natural products mind frame, alternative, punk rock, hippie, hip hop, left-left wing activist soul. With a big mouth and a bigger heart. From the acult to the corporately hip to the underground.

I'm a contributing writer at DOPE Magazine - www.dopemagazine.com/profile/shwalaytart/

https://www.instagram.com/giggletherapeutics/

Been working in the Natural Products Industry for almost twenty years. The first employee at Guayaki tea company and then went on to work for 12 years at INDIGENOUS, an organic and fair trade fashion designer. I've also worked as a landscaper, manicurist, masseur, candy maker, chef and ran with the circus. I'm currently the Co-Founder and President of the cannabis company, Giggle Therapeutics, alongside my Co-Founder and CEO wife Sugar, who is a DOPE photographer, as well.

PHILOSOPHY
Follow Your Giggle

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

In every way I can

Interests

Fun, funny, freaky, artistic, dorky, creative, strange and even a few of the simple things in life that make grandparents happy.

Music, Movies, and Books

I LOVE MUSIC, I LOVE MOVIES, I LOVE BOOKS!! Tim Robbins, John Hughes, Greg Araki, Oliver Stone, Abbe Wool...anything that inspires me or makes me cry. Erica Jong, Timothy Leary, Hakim Bey, Hunter S. Thompson, Jackie Collins, Ken Ceasy, Barbara Deming, Noam Chomsky, Zecharia Sitchin, Winona Laduke, Gabriel Cousins, Dan Millman, Howard Zinn, Tod Brendan Fahey, Aldous Huxley, Terence McKenna, Lewis Carrol....Arcade Fire, Flaming Lips, Radio Head, Spearhead, Faith No More, Alice Donut, Hippie House, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Fischerspooner, Deep Dish, Ghostland Observatory, Sweatshop Union, Modest Mouse, Black Grape, Belle & Sebastian, Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, NO-FX, Jill Tracy, Fiona Apple, Amy Winehouse, Louis XIV, Ben Harper, Princess Superstar, Peaches, Lily Allen, Bright Eyes, Clare Fader, The 6th, Magnetic Field, Fruit Bats, Firewater, The Minutemen, Broken Social Scene, Les Claypool, Immortal Technique, Tomahawk, Ursula 1000, Iron & Wine, Cloud Cult, Starkillerz, Arctic Monkey, Hot Chip, Brazilian Girls, Rage Against the Machine, LCD Soundsystem, Thievery Corperation, Moby, Dirty Beats, Buddha Bar Comp., Nouvelle Vague, Beat Antiques, Girl Talk, Air, Lords of Acid, Thin White Rope, Band of Horses, M. Ward, WEEN, Tom Waits, Placebo, The Streets, Ugly Casanova, Bongwater, Young Circle, RJD2, DJ Dilachaux, Basenector, Butholesurfers, Beastie Boys, The Faint, Zero 7, Beck, Gorillaz, MGMT...f*ck, does it ever end? (I make a mean mix tape!)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Let me tell you all about it...

Teach, Learn, Share

Always!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food and stories and drinks and more food and stories and drinks.

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