ABOUT ME

M/29, from the Philly suburbs. I'm an Irish-American Jew who speaks a good amount of german, has a dark sense of humor, and is up for meeting new people to drink/talk/smoke/wander the city with.

PHILOSOPHY

We're all unimaginably lucky to be alive, clinging to this ball of mud floating through nothing, and we are all we have. To be anything other than good to each other is to spit in the face of that fact.

And, because we're constantly paying back/balancing the unimaginably good luck of existence with the oft-shitty luck we call Life, we must remember our choices: Laugh, or go crazy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm up for meeting and hanging out with anyone I can reach.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Spent the summer of 08 couchsurfing in and around Belgium, met a lot of wonderful people from across the planet.

Hosted passersthrough in Washington DC.

Two years living and working in Austria, and couchsurfing through Europe whenever time allowed.

Interests

Movies
Gaming
Ska, Rock, and Hip Hop
Alternate History
Spicy food
Trying new things
Getting lost
Peoplewatching

• oktoberfest
• dining
• drinking
• movies
• music
• jewish
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: anything Mel Brooks, anything Monty Python, anything by Fatih Akin, the Prestige, Southland Tales, Abbott and Costello, Big Fish, Joyeux Noel, The Fall, Shoot Em Up, Little Miss Sunshine, Das Leben der Anderen, The Good the Bad the Weird

Music: A lot of ska, a bit of electro, some hip hop, and some others mixed in for flavor.

Books: The War Prayer, American Gods, The Count of Monte Cristo, Nothing Sacred, Slaughterhouse Five, The Years of Rice and Salt, Yiddish Policeman's Union, Peshawar Lancers, 1984, the Last and First Men, Narcissus and Goldmund, the Wheel of Time, A Song of Ice and Fire, Pastwatch, Dune, Guns Germs and Steel, Lies my Teacher Told Me, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Cosmos, 2312, Die Abenteuer des Simplicius Simplicissimus, Hyperion

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've climbed the snake trail of Masada to watch the sun rise over the Dead Sea.

I've gone sledding on the lawn of the US Capitol.

I've woken up at sunrise to get drunk at Oktoberfest.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can talk about what I've experienced in life. Less than some, more than others. Beyond that, it's mostly speculation.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Useless beer, linguistics, and history trivia
Jewish cooking and baking! If you have an oven and the gear, I can bake bagels!

Countries I’ve Visited

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Serbia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Belgium, South Korea, United States

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