I grew up in Seattle and I lived in New York for four years while studying music at conservatory (as a trombonist and jazz musician) but for the last two years I’ve spent most of my time hitchhiking through Europe, Turkey and the Caucuses, and most of my money has come from pouring beer and scrubbing toilets back in the US. Most of my time is spent alone, though I’ve come to greatly value the meetings and the friendships as they come. Though there are things which I’m deeply passionate about, none of them are yet to materialize into a potential career, so as it stands, I perpetually have no idea where I’ll be or what I’ll be doing three months from the present.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I’ve travelled long enough to know how empty and exhausted it feels to pass through a city without getting to know anyone. Couchsurfing allows me to get “into” a city in a way just staying in a hostel does not. Of course it also represents an opportunity to cook, to sit and drink and share whatever wisdom or idiocy we have to share.

Interests

Music, cooking, walking, reading, writing, running.

• books
• music
• baseball
• food
• alcohol

Music, Movies, and Books

Henry Miller, Walt Whitman, Arthur Rimbaud, Herman Hesse, Ralph Waldo Emerson, D.T Suzuki

Scriabin, Messiaen, Stravinsky, Bartok, Ravel, some good old fashioned Bach.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Compose, orchestrate, and perform my own concerto for an orchestra. (In hindsight I think the music was no good but the fact that I actually finished something is still a miracle)

Teach, Learn, Share

I could conjure up something wise to put here but Hesse already wrote it, probably.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook, I can appreciate good cooking (honestly I can enjoy bad cooking too; food is food, no?), I know a lot of music, especially classical, and I can play the piano if you have one. I write various nonsense and sometimes poetry and if you get me drunk enough I’ll read it to you. To be ready to lend a gentle and sympathetic ear to strangers is important to me as well.