CURRENT MISSION

to live with kindness and goodwill, learn languages, to learn about slavic icons, to grow my own food, learn from others

ABOUT ME

On two different occasions in my life I have been given a pin that says, 'I am the wacky neighbor in the sitcom of life.' Through the years, weird music and beer have helped chip away my initial resistance at this characterization. I am a Russophile and have lived in the former Soviet Union for many years. They have learned from us but we have a lot that we could learn from them.

PHILOSOPHY

boredom is always counter-revolutionary (guy debord said that)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

abide by golden rule, meet interesting people

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

been hosted in helsinki, london. hosted in washington dc, ukraine, moscow

Interests

Weird music. Books. Comedy. Indian food. Russian stuff.

• books
• concerts
• dining
• indian food
• beer
• music
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

movies- days of heaven, guatemalan handshake, andrei rublev
books- up in the old hotel, jospeh mitchell, many russian writers, graham greene, alan watts
music- jazz, punk, 1990's indie rock, folk, hip-hop

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

orange revolution in ukraine '04-05, georgian-russian war '08, exasperating conversations with shaman on the banks of yenisei in republic of tuva, getting png status in russia, guided by voices, pavement, nick cave in concert in ljubljana, sharing a long, tortuous taxi ride with boy george in moscow, accidentially meeting boris spassky's son in a chinese restaurant in dushanbe, while talking about boris spassky...