CURRENT MISSION

On a mission for a mission.

ABOUT ME

They would tell you all about what a kind, quiet, interesting, clean person I am because they want to help me get on your couch! ... Actually they'd probably tell you that I'm interested in a lot of stuff, maybe too nice, fun, funny (this one I hope they say). They'd probably tell you my head is in the clouds.

PHILOSOPHY

I don't think a real personal philosophy can be wrapped up neatly in words. But Emerson's Self-Reliance comes closest to my ideal. I value a contrarian mind willing to challenge assumptions. http://kyleschen.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/self-reliance.pdf

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm new to the CouchSurfing community, I signed up for a cross country road trip I'm taking. Soo I'm participating by sleeping on your couch. I hope soon you will sleep on mine.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Zero... except in my dreams of magic and such.

兴趣

I am most engaged in life when I see/hear/experience great art (business not excluded). When I get to engage with people who are interested in the unanswerable questions of life. Mostly when I get to laugh with people though. I spend a lot of time reading and writing and thinking. When I contact you I will be in the middle of a road trip - so I will be driving quite a bit.

• arts
• writing
• movies
• reading
• magic
• business
• economics

音乐、电影和书籍

I'm a big fan of books, even though I'm an amazingly slow reader. Emerson's Essays; Letters from a Stoic; Stranger from a Strange Land by Heinlein; Dune by Herbert; Ender's Game (and everything else by Orson Scott Card); Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche; Calvin and Hobbes; Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson; Anything by Alan Watts; You Are The World by Krishnamurti; ... I've spent most of my time on non-fiction but I'm changing that bit by bit.

I'm a big fan of movies... some of my favorites:
-Snatch (
-It's Kind of a Funny Story
-I Heart Huckabee
-Fast Five
-Super Troopers
-Office Space
-Pulp Fiction/Inglorious Bastards (He can't do anything wrong)
-Fantastic Mr Fox (Plus all Wes Anderson)
-Black Swan
-Adaptation
-Punch Drunk Love
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...this is a waste of time.. I love good movies.

I'm much less picky when it comes to music. Make Yourself by Incubus was my first favorite album and still is. I like Bob Dylan and then I like all that stuff you hate on the radio. And all the stuff you don't like off the radio. I'm kind of a music slut.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

I don't think it's best to talk about them in public... but okay.
1. Seeing the Dark Knight Rises trailer on an IMAX screen.
2. Going to Rome for the first time and being in the middle of ancient epicness.
3. ...
This is really tough. I'm left awestruck a lot. I think it's important to keep a sense of awe with you throughout life.

教，学，和分享

- I know something about movies.
- I know something about economics.
- I know something about trading (did it for about 6 years).
- I know something about internet marketing (worked with Affluence.org and Grooveshark.com doing this stuff. Currently helping a couple web series with their web presence).
- I know something about fun.
- I don't know anything about life but I like to talk about the ridiculousness of it.

我游览过的国家

Bahamas, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

我居住过的国家

United States