CURRENT MISSION

Learn, teach, write, explore and have a healthy, satisfying life.

ABOUT ME

That I am kind, intelligent, empathetic and respectful.

PHILOSOPHY

Constantly reassess your beliefs no matter how sacred. View yourself as a work in progress, with no fixed point.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted about 5 groups of couch-surfers (five separate occasions, all of which were at my previous residences in Brooklyn).

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Visitors from Japan, Germany, Australia, Ireland and Tennessee. They were all fantastic. We would make dinner, talk about a myriad of subjects and explore New York City.

Interests

Philosophy, Science, Reading, Writing, Music, Film, Art, Politics, Gardening, Beer Brewing, Electronics.

• arts
• writing
• beer
• electronics
• gardening
• politics
• reading
• music
• cycling
• rock climbing
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=jlaroche

Movies:
The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Akira Kurosawa's Films, The Take, Unprecedented, Baraka, The Journey of Man, Control Room, The Corporation, The Weather Underground, World War I in Colour, Max, My Life Without Me, Primer, Why We Fight, The Assasination of Richard Nixon, The Cube, Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust, Pi, Amores Perros, The Fog of War, The Bottled Fools, Coffee and Cigarettes, Martin and Orloff

Music:
Punk Rock (The Vandals, Gorilla Biscuits, Minor Threat), Newschool Punk (Propaghandi, Strung Out, Good Riddance), 70s Rock (Thin Lizzie, Gang of Four, Mountain), Electroclash (Ladytron, Peaches), Electronica (Dynamix II, Autechre, Richard Devine), Ambient (Boards of Canada, Brian Eno), Jazz (Thelonius Monk, Mike Vax, Max Roach, Art Tatum, Sun Ra), Classical (Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, JSB), Jungle / Drum & Bass (Panacea, Technical Itch, Decoder), 60s Rock (Smiling Faces, The Velvet Underground), Folk Rock (Bob Dylan), Folk Punk (Against Me!, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, Ghost Mice), 60s Soul / R&B (The Delfonics, Ray Charles), Original Rock (Otis Blackwell, Gino Washington, Chuck Berry), Indie (The Evens, The Walkmen), Post Modern Rock (Distortion Felix, Autolux), Hardcore (Earth Crisis, Strife)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Bike touring in Vermont and climbing Ometepe in Nicaragua.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, France, Haiti, Italy, Jamaica, Malta, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Serbia, Slovenia, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, United States

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