CURRENT MISSION

I'm an archaeologist, so I'm here to fight Nazis.

ABOUT ME

I'm hairy, but I'm slowly going bald. I like to think that I'm different, but I'm probably not. I was raised Southern Baptist, but now I'm an atheist with slight Buddhist leanings. I'm a socialist. I'm a hopeless romantic. I'm southern, but my accent isn't. I like beer, but I rarely get drunk. Potato chips are my greatest weakness. I collect sake sets and fossils. I read, but not as much as I should. I'm currently in grad school working on a master's degree in applied anthropology, concentrating on archaeology. My favorite color is green. I don't know why I'm here or what I'm doing. I think Gilda Radner is one of the sexiest women to have ever lived. My role models include Robert C. Dunnell, Stephen Jay Gould, Jane Goodall, Barack Obama, George Costanza, the Silver Surfer, Kilgore Trout, and the Dalai Lama. I like music, but I appreciate silence more. I'm quiet until I get to know you. I can't swim. I'm afraid of heights. I lived in a barn for two years. My downstairs neighbor was a horse named Esprit. Now I live in a regular old apartment with my two cats, Ralph and Alva.

PHILOSOPHY

"The truth you believe in and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new." --Pema Chödrön

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've got a two bed room apartment offering a couch, a small futon, and plenty of floor space.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

n00b

Interests

60's, 70's, 80's, activism, albert camus, amelie poulain, anthropology, anti-bush, anti-corporate, anti-war, apes, archaeology, arrested development, atheism, audrey hepburn, audrey tautou, beer, biology, bob marley, books, cartoons, charles darwin, charlie kaufman, che, che guevara, chuck palahniuk, collies, comic books, comics, communism, delicatessen, different cultures, dogs, dolphins, dorks, dr. seuss, dr. strangelove, edward scissorhands, environmentalism, ethan and joel coen, evolution, evolutionary archaeology, feminism, foreign films, fossils, geeks, goth chicks, green, green party, guinness, hank williams sr, hippie chicks, hippies, human evolution, human rights, indie films, invader zim, iron chef, jack black, jean-pierre jeunet, joan slonczewski, john cusack, johnny cash, johnny depp, labor unions, luc besson, margaret sanger, marvel comics, monty python, movies, muscle cars, napoleon dynamite, national health care, nerds, non-violence, old school snl, pabst blue ribbon, paleoanthropology, patches, pbr, peace, peter f. hamilton, politics, primates, pro-choice, quentin tarantino, ralph nader, rammstein, ray bradbury, reading, recycling, science fiction, seattle, seinfeld, social sciences, socialism, south park, spongebob squarepants, stanley kubrick, star wars, sushi, t-shirt hell, t-shirts, tattoos, taxi driver, tenacious d, the beatles, the dalai lama, the dark crystal, the fairly odd parents, the fifth element, the godfather, the pogues, the rolling stones, the silver surfer, the smurfs, the texas chainsaw massacre, the upright citizen's brigade, thrift stores, tie dye, tim burton, uma thurman, wes anderson, whales, ziggy marley

• cats
• dogs
• books
• coloring
• tattoos
• human rights
• womens rights
• beer
• partying
• thrifting
• politics
• comics
• cartoons
• movies
• reading
• cars
• music
• buddhist
• atheism
• swimming
• anthropology
• archeology
• biology
• science
• social science

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Hank Williams, Sr., Johnny Cash, Rammstein, The Pogues, The Darkness, Jack Johnson, Ben Lee, The White Stripes, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, Billy Bragg, Concrete Blonde, Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Smash Mouth, Muddy Waters, Lead Belly, Amos Lee, Nora Jones, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, Yellow Machinegun, The Flaming Lips, and others I can't think of right off hand.

Movies: Dr. Strangelove, The City of Lost Children, Battle Royale, Edward Scissorhands, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, 8 1/2, Fight Club, The Dark Crystal, Cool Hand Luke, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Life of Brian, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Magnificent Seven, and way too many others to mention.

Books: 1984 by Orwell, A Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski, anything by Chuck Palahniuk, A Confederacy of Dunces by Toole, The Forever War by Joe Haldemon, The Harry Potter series, The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger, Absalom, Absalom! by Faulkner, and any number of crappy sci-fi paperbacks.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've excavated 1,000 year old Native American burials.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can share hilarious stories of drunken archaeology antics, and I'm looking to learn anything you know about curry, vegetarianism, films, Tibetan Buddhism, and pie.