CURRENT MISSION

To learn. Every single day.

Interests

I like walking. In general. It's not too hard. It's fun. It's free. I particularly like the loooong changeovers in the Shanghai subway system. That is some serious walking!!

• writing
• cooking
• vegetarian
• walking
• reading
• music
• guitar
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Books - After the Quake, Norwegian Wood, Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Interpreter of Maladies, Shantharam, The Namesake, Sirens of Baghdad, Istanbul, Time's Arrow, Video Night in Kathmandu, The Man Inside My Head, The Alchemist, On the Road, The God of Small Things, A Hundred Years of Solitude, Catcher In The Rye, 5 Point Someone, Midnight's Children, A Suitable Boy, Narcopolis, The Sly Company of People Who Care, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Famous Five Series, Walden, On Writing, The Interrogation....

Music - Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Smashing Pumpkins, John Butler Trio, Jack Johnson, Bastille, Of Monsters and Men, Mumford and Sons, Mazzy Star, Blur, Birdy, Los Campesinos, Walk Off The Earth, Bob Dylan, Sophie Madeleine, Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles, Slipknot, Lamb of God, Pantera, Metallica, Mudvayne, Disturbed, Iron Maiden, Sepultura, Megadeth, Poets of The Fall, Amon Amart, Sigur Ros, Bullet For My Valentine....Some of the artists on my playlists.

My two favorite movies - V for Vendetta (What amazing writing!!) and Requiem for a Dream

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, India