CURRENT MISSION
Make things. Be generous. Learn well.
(Less abstractly, make great theatre.)

ABOUT ME
I'm a curious person I think.
I like nothing better than to make things with people.
Especially music and stories.
I work in the literary office at a theater in Berkeley, CA.
But that's just for now.
I'm working hard to know more about the world.
Especially through history, earth sciences, and art.
I'm passionate about history and nature and creativity and people.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because there's no better way to get to know a place than to get to know its people.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I spent the summer before last couchsurfing in Europe. I especially enjoyed my stay in Edinburgh at the Fringe Festival.

Then this past summer I couchsurfed around China and met all sorts of great people. One of my hosts even helped me land a job with a craft brewery in Yunnan!

Then I couchsurfed with my sister in Vietnam and met some amazing people.

This service really does make the world a friendlier place.

Interests

Art. Theater. Film. Music. Creativity. Philosophication. Design. Innovation. Entrepreneurship. Sound. Language. History. Risk. Realness (in the hip hop aesthetic sense)

• arts
• writing
• theater
• design
• festivals
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• trumpet
• hiking
• business
• ecology
• entrepreneurship
• geology
• history
• religion
• mountain biking
• podcasting
• environmentalism
• songwriting
• botany
• environmental history
• playwriting
• colorado
• southwest

Music, Movies, and Books

Music
Kamasi Washington, Hiatus Kaiyote, Dirty Projectors, Steve Reich, Elliot Smith, Swans, Wagner, Nas, Miniature Tigers, Joni Mitchell, Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Death Grips, The National, Wilco, The Dodos, Freelance Whales

Movies
Samsara, Leviathan, Brazil, Beginners, Happiness, Requiem For A Dream, Amadeus, Gummo, Wall-E, Raging Bull, Life is Beautiful, City of God

Books
Annals of the Former World, PrairyErth, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Vibrant Matter, The Lord of the Rings, Watchmen, Infinite Jest, Enders Game, Ishmael

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In Turkey I watched almost 10,000 people gather in front of Hagia Sophia at 5 AM to demonstrate their desire that it be reopened as a religious place and not just a museum. I was the only person in the sea of people wearing shorts and standing in a fountain in the middle of the square (because there was nowhere else to stand). I learned that 10,000 people bowing in silence makes a sound.

Teach, Learn, Share

I learn slowly and forget even slower. - Abraham Lincoln

I would worship a man who could forget the future. - Rumi

Play is play. - Peter Brook

What I Can Share with Hosts

Music, Adventurous spirit, Ideas, Conversation, Stories, Creativity, Cooking, Energy

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Belize, Cambodia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, United States