University professor in Chittagong Bangladesh (philosophy, buddhism, gender studies). I travel often to India, Nepal, Thailand, etc.

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INFP
http://www.personalitypage.com/INFP.html

Have been a bit of a gypsy most of my life:
Colorado native till 18
Undergrad in Seattle
Brazil for a year and a half
Nepal for 2 years
Northern CA mountains for a year
Houston for a year
NYC for 9 years
Guangzhou China for a year
Woodstock, NY for 6 months
Northern Wisconsin for a year
Sonoma County, CA for a year
Now Bangladesh

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet knew people :)

Interests

• arts
• writing
• books
• literature
• poetry
• theater
• performing arts
• concerts
• lgbt rights
• education
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• indian food
• beer
• partying
• drinking
• country music
• jazz
• opera
• outdoor activities
• sailing
• buddhist
• teaching
• history
• philosophy
• massage
• buddhism
• party
• activism
• whiskey
• standup comedy
• translating
• higher education

Music, Movies, and Books

Standup:
Doug Stanhope, Bill Burr, Bill Hicks, Pryor, Junior Stopka, George Carlin, Louie, Hedberg

Poetry:
Baudelaire, Brautigan, Bukowski, Karin Boye, Plath, Anna Akhmatova, Sohrab Sepehri, Rilke, Tagore, Wallace Stevens, Yeats, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Ikkyu, Ryokan, Han Shan, Gregory Corso, Leonard Cohen, Gendun Chöpel, Milarepa, Tsangyang Gyatso, Nima Youshij, Ahmad Shamlou, Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, Forough Farrokhzad, Monica Lewis

Fiction:
Cormac McCarthy (esp. Blood Meridian, The Crossing, All the Pretty Horses), Melville (Moby Dick!), Mishima, Duras, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, Tolstoy, Kerouac, As I Lay Dying, You Can't Go Home Again, (I know I have a bias toward masculine realism when it comes to fiction
:-/)

Non-Fiction:
Sontag, Cioran, Jim Harrison, Julia Serano, Unlimited Intimacy, Jean Améry, Chögyam Trungpa, The Life of Marpa the Translator, the Life of Rechungpa, Milarepa, Backgammon For Blood, François Jullien, Walter Benjamin, Annie Dillard, Geoff Dyer, Camus, Thomas Laqueur's Making Sex, Susan Stryker, Leo Bersani, Charles Mudede, Sandy Stone, Sex Itself, Sexing the Body, Jung Chang, Peter C. Perdue

Philosophy:
Nietzsche, Michel Onfray, Levi Bryant, Graham Harmann, Timothy Morton, J.S. Mill, Bentham, Epicurus, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucretius, de Beauvoir, Saint Genet by Sartre, Mipham, Longchenpa, Nagārjuna, Candrakīrti, Śāntideva, Śāntarakṣita, Marx, Proudhon, Georges Palante, Montaigne, Longchen Rabjam, Alphonso Lingis, Thalia Mae Bettcher

Music:
Tom Waits, Willie Nelson (if you have any kind of a problem with Willie Nelson, I'll hate you), Waylon Jennings, DJ Screw, Bossa Nova, Rocksteady, Jazz (bebob/classic), Bluegrass, Verdi, Mozart, Puccini, Offenbach, Django Reinhardt, Hank Williams, Dwight Yoakam, Bill Monroe, Sade, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Gram Parsons, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Donny Hathaway, Beach Boys, Billie Holiday, Neil Young, Harry Nilsson, Phosphorescent, Dan Aurbach, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Norah Jones, Lightnin' Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb, Antony & the Johnsons, Billy Joe Shaver, Chet Baker, Danzig, Misfits, Dead Moon, Dillard & Clark, Gene Clark, Mickey Newbury, Raul Seixas, Jorge Ben, Rolling Stones, Doug Sahm, Terry Allen, Tony Joe White, Karen Dalton, Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Valerie June, Lianne la Havas, Larry Jon Wilson, Songs: Ohia, Magnolia Electric Co., Jason Molina, Alela Diane, Nina Simone, Alex Chilton, Justin Townes Earle, Hurray for the Riffraff, Bill Callahan, Elliot Smith, Dexter Gordon, Coleman Hawkins, Miles & Coltrane, Kesang Marstrand, Ibeyi, Gary Stewart, Jolie Holland, Public Enemy, Curtis Mayfield, Blaze Foley, The Flatlanders, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Caetano Veloso, João Gilberto, Eric Dolphy, Jeru the Damaja, Gang Starr, Souls of Mischief, Pharcyde, The Monkees, the Lovin' Spoonful, Sturgill Simpson, Tom Russell, Grace Chang, Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar

I really dislike electronic music (except RJD2) sorry.

Movies:
The Royal Tennenbaums, Braveheart, Leaving Las Vegas, Manji, Winter's Bone, 2046, The Mood for Love, early Zhang Yimou, Errol Morris, Woody Allen, PTA, Apocalypto, Battle Royale, Takashi Miike, Bad Santa, House Party, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Musa the Warrior, Tender Mercies, The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover, Big Lebowski, Crazed Fruit, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, The Great Beauty, I Stand Alone, Irreversible, Crazy Heart, Be Here To Love Me, Heartworn Highways, Africa Addio, Mondo Cane, The Hidden Fortress, Ran, Crouching Tiger, Lady Snowblood, Oldboy, Inglourious Basterds, Manda Bala, The Bride With White Hair, The Wiz, Point Break, Satyajit Ray, Sling Blade

Food:
***Mexican***
Cheese, stew, charcuterie.
Wine (all of it), Bourbon, Rye, Lagavulin, Ardbeg, lager, porter, stout, dark rum, Campari, sometimes gin

TV:
1st Tier: Northern Exposure, The Wire, Game of Thrones, Broncos games, True Detective, Deadwood, Bloodline

2nd Tier: The Mighty Boosh, Homeland, Nashville, Friday Night Lights, Hell On Wheels, Nuggets games, important soccer games, Louie, Derek, OITNB, House of Cards, Mad Men, Transparent, The Mighty Boosh

What I Can Share with Hosts

Dining, drinking, exploring, intellectual conversations, cooking :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Ecuador, France, India, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bangladesh, Brazil, China, France, Nepal, United States

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