CURRENT MISSION

fun

ABOUT ME

homo sapiens sapiens

PHILOSOPHY

to avoid hard-hitting hippies while using couchsurfing (seems tricky, but I'm sure it can be done)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Would be up to to show people Hamburg or go electro-partying/boozing.

Interests

Music, film, and travel are tops, but I also like the following; waterparks, roasting myself in the sun, scientific learning, olives, vivid dreams, designing fake back-stories for booze brands, photography, evolutionary biology, hominid evolution, behavioral ecology, international affairs and international law, powerful weather events, being barefoot, wikipedia, watching and playing football (both types) and especially hockey, eating out (both types), vanilla flavouring, people from Holland, how people partied in the 20's, modern art museums, Thai food, how Mark Messier partied in the 80's, movie festivals, comparative folklore, Montreal and Berlin, supporting the vast majority of causes that social conservatives/ultra-religious/prudes oppose, the excesses of Japanese robotics (see toilets), surrealism, certain strains of minimalism, arcade-style Pacman, Bullwinkles restaurant nostalgia, espionage, First Nations slang, randomness, and diversity. I dislike 'type-A' personalities and camera flash.

• arts
• folklore
• modern art
• photography
• festivals
• causes
• dining
• partying
• traveling
• eating out
• minimalism
• music
• soccer
• hockey
• biology
• ecology
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

Authors:
Italo Calvino, Mikhail Bulgakov, Kurt Vonnegut, Vladimir Nabokov, Jeffrey Eugenides, Roberto Bolaño, Haruki Murakami, J. D. Salinger, Milan Kundera, Dr. Seuss, Dave Eggers, William S. Burroughs

Music:
Pavement, The Tough Alliance, Built to Spill, Stone Roses, Vitalic, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Peter Bjorn and John, White Stripes, The Books, Tiga, Boys Noize, Spank Rock, The Knife, Dirty Projectors, Yelle, The Field, Good Shoes, The Blow, Velvet Underground, The Stooges, The Beatles, Sex Pistols, The Go-Betweens, The Smiths, Antony And The Johnsons, Charles Mingus, Air France, Animal Collective, Pixies, Cut Copy, Radiohead, Neutral Milk Hotel, Of Montreal, Jens Lekman, Franz Ferdinand, Architecture in Helsinki, Boards Of Canada, The Avalanches, Crystal Castles, Daft Punk, Hot Chip, Justice, M83, The Magnetic Fields, Beirut.

Movies:
City of God, Lost in Translation, Songs from the Second Floor, Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Before Sunrise, Russian Ark, No Country for Old Men, Good Will Hunting, Memento, Jesus Camp, Let the Right One In, Pi, The Fall, Blue Velvet, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Rushmore, Kontroll, Gran Torino, Dazed and Confused, My Winnipeg, The Godfather, Dr. Strangelove, Fucking Åmål, After the Wedding, The Royal Tenenbaums, American Beauty, A Clockwork Orange, Being John Malkovich, Sin City, Talk to Her, Salo, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Midnight Cowboy, American History X, Sex and Lucia, Double Indemnity, The Big Lebowski, Schindler's List, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Casino, Goodfellas, The Wicker Man (1971), Amélie, Brokeback Mountain, Lawrence of Arabia, The Hurt Locker, Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, L.A. Confidential, Sideways, Eastern Promises, Friday Night Lights, Apocalypse Now, Requiem for a Dream, Waltz with Bashir, The Barbarian Invasions, Boogie Nights, Fargo, Oldboy, Back to the Future, Into the Wild, Alice in Wonderland, Stranger than Fiction, Stalingrad, The Usual Suspects, Paradise Now, Closer, Lars and the Real Girl, The Constant Gardener, Best in Show, 24 Hour Party People

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

have consumed copious amounts of olives in multiple locales.

Cities I recommend:

Berlin - best in the world; ace party/art scenes
Monreal - 2nd favorite, for similar reasons
Seattle
San Francisco
Lisbon
Bangkok
Rotterdam
Belgrade
Budapest
Hamburg
Kiev
London
Grenada (spain)
Chefchauen (morocco)
Fes
Kampala
Varanassi
Hampi
Udaipur

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Kenya, Laos, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Germany, Sweden