I like to explore amazing places around the world and meet awesome people. Avid record collector and occasional underground musician. Like to release home recorded cassette tapes on my own record label. Working on getting a guitar company off the ground and also sometimes do some historic preservation work.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

If the schedule stars align, happy to host fellow travelers or bands on tour,

Interests

Bouldering, historic architecture, urban exploration, experiencing nature, reading, chess, playing euchre, brewing, screen printing, history, genealogy, collecting vintage music equipment, antiques, flea market scrounging, and anything strange or mysterious. Very keen on vegetarian food and drink of the world, big on sandwiches.

• architecture
• coffee
• vegetarian
• chess
• reading
• woodworking
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• genealogy
• history
• urban exploration
• rum
• mezcal
• vinyl records
• ale
• historic preservation
• 4 track recording
• cassette tapes

Music, Movies, and Books

The Wipers, Leatherface, Wire, Husker Du, Dead Moon, The Mob, Rudimentary Peni, Mission of Burma, Silkworm, Television, Wreckless Eric, The Only Ones, The Jam, Radio Birdman, The Saints, Celibate Rifles, The Clean, the Bevis Frond, X, The Germs, Siege, Deathside, Negative Approach. Also into many genres other than punk, including types as strange as outsider music and song poems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_poem as well as traditional and ethnic music.

Big fan of books and zines, and all kinds of movies, especially documentaries, samurai films, nouvelle vague, Jim Jarmusch, spaghetti westerns, Buster Keaton, garbage B-movies, anything entertaining, hilarious and/or thought provoking.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Night hike among the glowworms in New Zealand, or swimming into an abandoned bar in a cliffside bat cave in Jamaica.

Teach, Learn, Share

We like making tacos from scratch, and savory waffles. Into games like Telephony, cards, dice or even chess. We could play music together, I can give drum and guitar lessons, or help you record a song on an analog 4-track. We can make 1" pins, If you've never silk-screened a t-shirt you could even check that process out.
If you're interested in local history I can tell you all about it.

If you host, I can help cook (I don't eat meat though), if you live in a neat old house, I could share basic knowledge about repairing wood sash windows, if there's time and tools maybe help re-glaze and/or re-hang one or two! I could help with graphic design, especially hand made flyers or album art (mainly lettering, layout, or collage). I like fixing things in general, and can sharpen woodworking hand tools if you have a whetstone or hone.
I might be able to help with some minor repair on instruments.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States