CURRENT MISSION

Velo a Paris (join the group! join me!), finishing 4 chapters of two different books, good Sancerre!

ABOUT ME

I'm a mix of czech, dutch, and english on my dad's side and african, english, scottish, and cherokee on my mom's...both parents are english professors, and I became one too--but currently wrapped up in making visual art that attempts to parody and mock contemporary american life...I love to rollerblade, I love the French countryside, I love Amsterdam, I don't drink, smoke pot, or smoke cigs--except for an occasional glass of wine-- I eat organic food but am not a vegetarian, I love to go for long walks and have huge conversations--I really like people who can get into crazy confessional/political/artistic scenes...I am a raving leftist, but you don't have to agree with me--in fact, sometimes its more fun when we don't agree but can still have great conversations...

PHILOSOPHY

well, I'm attracted to Nietzsche but struggling to be more like the Dalai Lama...it's a hard one...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

just started

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

great experiences running into all sorts of people, mostly in France, and then just getting taken in by them for a few days to a week...wonderful fun...Not officially via CS, NB-just the old style couch surfing french-style, which is people "inviting" you--not to hit on, (well maybe sometimes, but I never ended up there)--but just to talk and share experiences. So far, I've never officially couch surfed or hosted yet, but I'd love to--

Interests

anything organic, artistic, or crazy/strange...I love people, parks, oceans...

• arts
• books
• dining
• wine
• vegetarian
• organic food
• running
• drinking
• surfing
• parks
• art museums
• feldenkrais
• somatics
• critical race theory
• bach
• walks in the park
• homer
• heidegger
• baudelaire
• experimental jazz
• push scooting
• hardcore punk from the 1980's
• theocritus
• adrian piper

Music, Movies, and Books

heidegger, baudelaire, beckett, theocritus, james joyce, james baldwin, foucault, gertrude stein, henry james, french pop, anything arabic for music, jazz, /dj rupture. Movies--pretty much all movies, but especially political documentaries, italian neo realism, pretty wide ranging interests...I will see virtually any French movie, and I have a weakness for trashy American action movies with lots of violence and high-tech gadgets.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

tiny island off the coast of france, the ile de batz, where a man in his seventies spoke breton to me. It sounded like the language of elves--this ancient celtic nearly dead language spoken on this tiny isolated island off the coast, not even near any large cities. It was a short but sublime moment.

Teach, Learn, Share

anybody creative