CURRENT MISSION

Eurasia?

ABOUT ME

A tumbleweed, probably mutant.

PHILOSOPHY

1/4 openness
1/4 humor
1/4 curiosity
1/8 nuance
1/8 compassion
dash of bitters

Interests

Writing, hiking, backpacking, cooking, sustainability, time-based art (life).
Humans and human possibility.
Books.
Translation.
Chan.
Russian language, poetry, literature, history.
Chinese language, poetry, philosophy, history.

• arts
• writing
• books
• literature
• poetry
• education
• cooking
• hiking
• backpacking
• anthropology
• teaching
• history
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Acid Mothers Temple, Excepter, Man Man, Osvaldo Golijov, Steve Reich, Savath and Savalas/Prefuse 73, Cinematic Orchestra, Squarepusher, Sigur Ros, Stereolab, Eno, Godspeed, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Clouddead, Talking Heads, Gong, Broadcast, Beatles, Dylan, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Coltrane, Zappa, Portishead, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, La Monte Young.

Movies: David Lynch, Tarkovsky, Terry Gilliam, etc etc.

Books: Ursula LeGuin, Octavia Butler, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, Roberto Bolano, Neal Stephenson, Ian Banks, Gary Snyder. etc etc...

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm a PhD candidate in linguistic anthropology. I study a bunch of stuff- the main things are probably the legacies of socialism in Eurasia, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, counterculture, education, religion. Lots of other stuff too though.
I seek to acquire new cooking styles.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, China, Estonia, Georgia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, New Zealand, Poland, Russian Federation, Taiwan, Turkey, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United States

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