CURRENT MISSION

Get to Cuba and Columbia

ABOUT ME

I'm open-minded and easy-going. I spend most of my free time reading, traveling, and playing music. I find my self called in too many directions sometimes.

PHILOSOPHY

..I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

visited 17 states (7.55%)Create your own visited map of The World
visited 24 states (48%)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted and surfed and have had only good experiences.

Interests

Music, percussion and improvised especially. Good literature, circuit bending, social/political activism, homebrewing, movies, longboarding, FOOD, and good conversations.

• books
• literature
• dining
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• homebrewing
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

Some favorite authors in no particular order: Cormac McCarthy, Sherman Alexie, Vladimir Nabakov, Bohumil Hrabal, Jorge Luis Borges, David Foster Wallace, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera, Thomas Mann, Chris Hedges, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and of course, Bill Watterson.

Currently reading: Capital by Marx, The Magicians by Grossman, and Voltaire's Bastards by John Ralston Saul.

Some favorite musicians in no particular order: James Blake, Joanna Newsom, Blue Scholars, Immortal Technique, The Bad Plus, Steve Reich, John Hartford, Badbadnotgood, John Cage, Squarepusher, Patrick Watson, Eastern Blok, Amon Tobin, Vulfpeck, In One Wind.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've lived briskly in nice houses and swigged whiskey in ice houses.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bahamas, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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