CURRENT MISSION

Cultivation, Emancipation, and Demulsification

ABOUT ME

Back roads are the best. Camping, cafes, and beautiful libraries make the world a better place. Life without couch surfers would be very dull indeed.

I don't care much for being in cars
and long walks are simply the best!
I am much happier lost in thought
or conversation than lost inside a
screen.

PHILOSOPHY

Oh, the wayward wind
is a restless wind.
A restless wind
that yearns to wander,
and I was born
the next of kin.
The next of kin
to the wayward wind.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

One time while camping I ate a bunch of wild
mushrooms and got really sick. Then when
everyone else I was with started vomiting
I was relieved to realize that I probably
didn't have wild mushroom poisoning.

Interests

traveling
libraries
traveling libraries
mathematics
electronics
music
filling up notebooks
improvising dishes
lightning, whistlers and the Aurora
Biophilia.

• electronics
• flowers
• traveling
• cars
• crochet
• music
• camping
• mathematics

Music, Movies, and Books

In Print:Jorge Luis Borges, Milorad Pavic, Neal Stephenson, Ursula LeGuin, William Lawvere and Stephen Schanuel, Saunders MacLane with Garrett Birkoff, Colin McLarty, Stephen Strogatz, Henry Miller, Ivan Niven, Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, Milo Manara, Rick Veitch, A.G. Cairns-Smith, Lyall Watson, Euclid and friends, D.A. Levy, Charles Mingus, Irving Langmuir, Thomas Pynchon, Jarrold Marsden, Rene Thom, Gian-Carlo Rota, William Feller, Hannes Alfven, The Westinghouse team that wrote Seven States of Matter, Italo Calvino, Harvey Pekar, Robert Crumb, Peter Blegvad, Bad Behavior, The Umbrella Academy, Asterios Polyp, Good Bye Chunky Rice, Edward Tufte, Max Horkheimer, HSM Coxeter, Robert Musil's "The Man Without Qualities", E O Wilson and the Biophilia Hypothesis, Nancy Chen's "Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China", The Monkey by Wu Chien-en

On Film:David Attenborough, Dusan Makavejev, Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees, John Sayles (particularly Brother From Another Planet), N is a Number: The Story of Paul Erdös, Frivolous Lola, Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968, Secret of Kells, The Sticky Fingers of Time, Sergio Leone, My Neighbor Totoro, Django, Doctor Who (TV), Calvin Johnson's documentary: American Nutria, The Alchemists of Sound, The Universal Mind of Gil Evans, Sound ??? (with John Cage and Rahsaan Roland Kirk), Rockers, Jamdown, Barbarella, Straight No Chaser, Moro No Brasil, Goshu the Cellist, Flesh Gordon, Roots Rock Reggae, Fisher King, La Voce Della Luna, the Golden Child, Dynamite Chicken, Fractals: The Colors of Infinity, Lawrence of Arabia, Big Time, The Lathe of Heaven, The Quiet Earth, I Clowns, The Professor and His Beloved Equation, Zorn's Lemma, Sans Soleil, La Jetee, Technotise: Edit & I, The Taqwacores, Il Fiore delle Mille e Una Notte, The Strange Case of Señor Computer, Interkosmos, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, 2 Fast 2 Furious and its predecessor, Werner Herzog (especially his documentaries), Dragon: the Bruce Lee Story, Howl, Secretary, Hal Hartley, Ferderico Fellini, Jim Jarmusch, Shadows in Paradise, Satin Rouge, Kungfu Hustle, Days of Being Wild (trilogy), Wong Kar Wai, Vaska EasOff, Jean Painleve', Koyaansiqatsi (life out of balance),Dark Star, Imagine, Noi Albinoi, Forks Over Knives, Heartworn Highways, The Guitar

Aurally: Dub Reggae, Late Sixties-Early Seventies Miles Davis, singing with Eddie Arnold, Tibetan throat singing, Nina Simone, Matmos' Supreme Balloon, Lee Perry, Sonic Youth, Bela Bartok, Niandra La Des and Usually Just a T-shirt, Bobby on the drums, Listening to Anthony play cello, John Lennon, Mario Davidovsky, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, tape loops, Godspeed You Black Emperor's F# A# infinity, Brian Eno, Radiohead, The Seductive Sounds of an Optigan, Delia Derbyshire, Hugh Masekela, Willie Nelson, Lobster Clause, Nick Riley Allstars, musicians with soul, Bee Mask, Marvin Gaye, Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Ella, Bjork, Merzbow, Howl, PJ Harvey, Ernst Reijseger, white noise, lightning: thunder whistlers crackle boom, water: rain burbling dripping pouring, bird`o`clock, trains, Maurice Ravel, Yumeji's Theme, Mum, Slowblow, Emeralds, generally I have strong appreciation for sounds (humanly organized or not).On canvas:Ángeles Santos Torroella, Juan Gris, Roberto Fernández Balbuena, Mark Rothko, Max Ernst

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My friend Ali and I once saw a honeybee passed out in a prickly-pear flower. When Ali got close to the flower, the bee woke up drunk on pollen. After stumbling for a minute, it regained some bearing and flew away.

Teach, Learn, Share

Making raw milks from cashews, rice, walnuts.
Crochet: from scarves to hyperbolic sea creatures.
Composting and Category Theory.
Programming and recording of sound.
I would love to learn to make my own ink!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States