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Overview

  • 11 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Japanese, Spanish
  • 31, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Artist, writer, vagabond, party-crasher
  • Fine art @University of Michigan
  • From Lexington, MI, USA
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About Me

"Live well. It is the greatest revenge."
—The Talmud

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Hosting couchsurfers and hopefully becoming a couchsurfer myself, someday in the future! :)

Interests

Traveling, art, music, books, movies, concerts, museums, cooking, eating out, wine&beer, nightlife with good music&dancing, meditation, yoga, exercise, holistic hippie health stuff.

  • yoga

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Waking Life, Blade Runner, Gummo, Lost in Translation, Samsara, Waltz with Bashir, Ghost in the Shell, anything by David Lynch or Studio Ghibli/Hayao Miyazaki.

Music: Björk, The Knife/Fever Ray, CocoRosie, Soap&;Skin, PJ Harvey, Tujiko Noriko, Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Florence + the Machine, Cat Power, Beach House, Beirut, Crystal Castles, Apparat, Ulrich Schnauss, Sufjan Stevens, Bat for Lashes, Chelsea Wolfe, Boards of Canada, Ritualz, Aphex Twin, Gazelle Twin, Grouper, Röyksopp. Rnv and hip hop, especially Cardi B and Erykah Badu.

Books: Kafka on the Shore, Down Below, House of Leaves, Earthsea Cycle, Tropic of Cancer, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The Bell Jar, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Nijigahara Holograph.

Shows: Twin Peaks, Rick and Morty, Broad City, Bee & Puppycat, Steven Universe. Tons of anime.

Video Games: Katamari Damacy, Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, Siren, The Last of Us, The Evil Within, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Journey, Mirror's Edge, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus. Mostly psychological/survivor horror and quirky Japanese games.

Teach, Learn, Share

Beds, couches and I usually have lots of avocados and mangos to share, and interesting books to lend/give away :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Basic yoga lessons or I can cook you a delicious meal, lots of book and movie recommendations, and plenty of stories, lessons, and interesting conversation.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, United States

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