"Life is A Lot Like Jazz... It's Best When You Improvise."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

It's awesome for meeting folks during my travels! Currently buckled down in Toronto but hope to be back on the road within a year.

Interests

History. Politics. Languages. Foreign films and literature. Art, esp. watercolours and etching. Writing non-academic stuff, i.e. NaNoWriMo. Fencing. Lots of music.

• arts
• writing
• literature
• singing
• partying
• clubbing
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• jazz
• karaoke
• surfing
• fencing
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Tom Waits, Smashing Pumpkins, Motorhead, Alice in Chains, Black Sabbath, Queen, Buddy Guy, Pantera, Rammstein, Frank Zappa, Opeth, Tool, Mastodon, Public Enemy, Rob Zombie, Bad Religion, Scorpions, Soundgarden Zakir Hussain, Trilok Gurtu, Ravi Shankar, John McLaughlin, Miles Davis, Stanley Clarke, Mahavishnu Orchestra.

Movies: Machete, Taxi Driver, The Fifth Element, The Maltese Falcon, Clue, Blade Runner, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Books: Tom Robbins "Another Roadside Attraction," John Dos Passos, "The 42nd Parallel," William S. Burroughs "Naked Lunch" Kazuo Ishiguro, "The Remains of the Day," Michael Ondaatje, "Anil's Ghost"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I had to pretend to be married to a girl for a smooth week of travels in southern Kyrgyzstan. It peaked with going out on an all-night men's party to celebrate with my bride's uncle. Vodka, pilaf, singing Leningrad and Alla Pugacheva covers at a karaoke club... Hazy but memorable times.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Estonia, Finland, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Ukraine

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