CURRENT MISSION

My mission is to see as much of this amazing world as I can, always have as much fun as is possible in the situation, and finally aide all others in achieving these same goals

ABOUT ME

I love cinema, literature, and music, and I live in an incredible environment with great friends that promote all 3 of those things. I live with just my dog, Wallace, but I spend a great amount of time with incredible friends. My close knit group includes a number of writers, film-makers, musicians, and all-around good people that CourchSurfers looking to party in Atlanta will almost certainly meet.
I am an outgoing, high-energy individual who is always more than happy to share everything I know about Atlanta in hopes of helping you see this city for the greatness that it holds. Atlanta doesn't always get a great rap, but it absolutely deserves one, and a true Atlanta local can you show an absolutely amazing time if you're ready and willing. It's a fun city with an abundance of art, culture, cuisine, kind people, and fun nightlife.

PHILOSOPHY

Be kind, be happy, live well.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hopefully, I can participate by offering up my sofa to wary travelers. Hopefully I can show someone a great time in a great city. And hopefully I can participate by taking someone up on the same offer else-where. I want to make new, interesting friends. I want to dance, sing-along, laugh, drink, and joke with new people.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was traveling from Munich to Vienna by train. This interesting guy about my same age got in the same car and we started talking. About 4 hours later we arrived in Vienna and had not stopped talking once in that time. I had reserved a hostel, but I ended up sleeping on his sofa at his apartment with him and his girl-friend. They were incredible people and gave me awesome hospitality for the 3 days I was there. They are friends for life and my sofa in Atlanta is always open to them.

Also, today, my old roommate is living in Switzerland and married to a former CouchSurfer. They met when she was staying in Atlanta during a backpacking trip and the two of them fell in love. After she left, she decided to stop back by Atlanta before leaving the states, and from there the two of them began an epistolary relationship that would ultimately result in his moving to Basel to be with her.

Interests

Novels, short stories, movies, music. I could go on forever going deeper and deeper in to these subjects, but I will spare you the time; unless, of course, you would like to talk about any of them.

• dogs
• arts
• culture
• writing
• literature
• singing
• acting
• dancing
• environment
• nightlife
• partying
• drinking
• shopping
• movies
• traveling
• knitting
• music
• backpacking
• hunting
• scuba diving
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: all Vonnegut novels, Ulysses, Catcher in the Rye, Brave New World, High Fidelity, Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The works of Shakespeare, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Rum Diaries, The Alchemist, Siddhartha, The World According to Garp, The Age of Reason, No Exit, Small Gods, Steoppenwolf. This is just a start.
Music: Tom Waits, Cat Power, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Incubus, Smashing Pumpkins, Counting Crows, Cake, Dave Matthews Band, Ben Folds Five, Phish, Mastodon, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Ben Harper, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Wilco, The Who, Placebo, Slayer, Iron Maiden, The Talking Heads, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, The Flaming Lips, The Roots, Pearl Jam. There are more still.
Movies: Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, There Will Be Blood, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Ghost Dog, The Boondock Saints, No Country for Old Men, Once, Jerry Maguire, Pulp Fiction, Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet, Chocolat, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Amelie, Say Anything, City of God, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, High Fidelity.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Zip-lined over the top of the rain-forest in the mountains of Costa Rica, Cliff Diving in to the Mediterranean in Cinque Terre, have used CPR training to resuscitate a person.

Teach, Learn, Share

Work-shopping creative writing. Input from other authors is so incredibly valuable, I want to offer it up to others as well as hopefully receive it.

I also work with an Atlanta film co-op to make short films. If you have a shooting project in Atlanta and need script consultation, editing or filming help, or another actor for an extra role please let me know. We're a large consortium of talented and passionate people always happy to be involved in various projects.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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