CURRENT MISSION The American experiment ABOUT ME Grew up in Austin, Texas. PHILOSOPHY "But, perhaps, to be true philosophers, we mortals should not be conscious of so living or so striving. So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have 'broken his digester.' "
Fluent in English
Learning French
Learning Russian
Learning Spanish
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
"It may also have been that I wanted to taste of this world, to feel it, suffer it, know it, to love it, to make a valuable contribution to it, and to have that sublime mood of eternity in me as I live the life to come."
Music, Movies, and Books
Ludmila's Broken English - Pierre, The Famished Road - Okri, Moby Dick - Melville, No Country for Old men - McCarthy, Brazil - Gilliam, Blade Runner - Scott, Demian - Hesse, On The Road - Kerouac. The Tsar of Love and Techno - Marra, Three Moments of an Explosion - Mieville, Midnights Children - Rushdie, Pale Blue Dot - Sagan, The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky, Heart of Darkness - Conrad, Take it Back - Gray Matter, Discovery - Daft Punk, Guitars and Cadillacs - Jennings, And Then You Shoot Your Cousin - The Roots, Aman Iman - Tinariwen, The Monitor - Titus Androndicus. Made in the Dark - Hot Chip,
One Amazing Thing I've Done
What is amazing in the information age?
Teach, Learn, Share
I can teach you to ride my motorcycle. You wont be the first to crash it.
My Interests
Literature, motorcycles, machines, variety, chess, very good movies, very bad movies, russia
