CURRENT MISSION

spinning the world like a toy top til there's a ghost in every town

ABOUT ME

it's hard for me to write about me. i'm very friendly and tend to use long words and get involved in excessively complicated sentence structures. i like music, visual art, and film. a lot. i also like to exercise and be outdoors.

i read a lot of comics--some 'funnies' (mostly out-of-print ones like pogo or calvin and hobbes), but mostly the postmodern, self-involved meta biographical kind like those by chris ware, alison bechdel, or derek kirk kim. even more than i like reading or listening to things, i like making or doing them myself.

i love meeting new people, but i (like many folks) need to get my alone time on too. i jaywalk a lot. i like high places. i'm a pretty reliable, well-intentioned guy.

PHILOSOPHY

i try my best to be a decent human being.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

mostly surfing and a bit of hosting ... occasionally, i can be founded rocking a poker game in french or spanish. what UP!?

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i've surfed in the US of A a few times and both surfed and hosted while living (briefly) in valencia, spain.

Interests

-climbing / hiking / gym-going
-walking inordinate distances
-photography
-staring at things quietly and thinking about them
-drawing things like it was my job (which, incidentally, it is)
-architecture, particularly contemporary architecture
-meeting people's people
-music (mainly noise-pop, shoegaze, folk, bluegrass, and folktronica, electronic music, and a little jazz.)

• arts
• books
• architecture
• photography
• exercise
• walking
• comics
• reading
• socializing
• drawing
• poker
• music
• electronic music
• jazz
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• surfing
• rock climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

just a couple from each:

music: elliott smith, youth lagoon, four tet, crooked still, radiohead, tunng, califone, chris thile.

books: jimmy corrigan, fun home, black hole, from hell, the things they carried, power and the glory

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i finished my own graphic novel; it took me three and a half years. (!)

i also went to norway and saw the fjords, which definitely goes into the "amazing things seen" category.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States