CURRENT MISSION

Making music and experiencing life.

ABOUT ME

I am interested in and do like:

Composing, teaching, writing, performing, conducting,
hanging (with friends not from trees), skim boarding, reading, relaxing, enjoying (the scenery), eating (shepherds pie), disliking strongly all guys named Guy. Marathon Running, Canada, Writing, Opera, Musical Theater, Orchestral Music, Film, Foreign Languages, Baseball (Red Soxs), Exestentialism, Religion, All of Mahler's Symphonies, Theatre, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and not getting them, British Culture, Star Wars, Silly Putty, Random Acts of Kindness, Michelle, Cigars, Superman, Dmitri Shostakovich, Air Tight Containers, Liquid Nitrogen, Pam Beesly

PHILOSOPHY

I'm sitting in a coffee shop and saw a car accident and the stress it causes. I hate cars, I don't use them unless I have to. I believe that human beings were not ment to be trapped in vehicles that isolate us from other humans. Cars are dehumanizing.

I believe that life is only short in retrospect, but when you look back you better like what you see. Live life to the fullest, but there is no need to rush. Sometimes just sitting around doing nothing is as fufilling as anything you can see or do. Take time to relax.

I love women, but I hate objectification.

I believe peace is more powerful than violence.

I believe that animals deserve to have quality of life, even if they are destined to be prepared on a pewter plate.

I smile more than I frown, and breath more than I speak, except when I need to speak up.

No wars have every been fought over symphonies or songs. Play music for better quality of existence.

Find happiness.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I realise that open ended tickets and travel diaries held in the mind are milestones most people never have/cross/whatever the case may be, therefore I want to continue do my own travels as well as help others do the same. Anyone who wants to come to St. Pete is more than welcome to chill at my place, it's urban but hum-drum, sexy but disease free, it's straight but gay friendly, small but pretty, historical but new to the universe. Come one come all.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I lived for a year in St. Petersburg Russia, studying music composition at the conservatory there, and met tons of awesome people from all over the world. Thinking back on the experience still amazes me and I love kicking back to Petersburg whenever I come up with funds.

I have a good friend in Kent, UK that I've crashed with who is the best English girl a guy could ask to know.

I've randomly crashed in Sutton-In-Craven with Thom and Em's and partied Yorkshire style at the Kings Arms and Old White Bear. I also discovered that Black sheep is the best beer in the universe.

Ida and Sara are family but I've stayed with them in both Heestede and Amsterdam, Noord Holland - in the Netherlands and had a blast.

Randomly skipped out to Cork and Dublin while trapsing across Ireland and met Pubbers that offered me board in exchange for a song or two, love those guys

Stayed in London at the Juries for 12 days on an educational trip. went to Stonehenge in Avesbury, Bath (met peter gabriel), and Salisbury.

Rode the Bus from St. Petersburg to Tallinn and walked around in the Estonian air where purity and kindness have never been so firmly accepted.

Lived in Boston on a couch for 4 months and had the best time of my life, living free of shit and working at virgin records.

Spent time in NYC craching on couches and playing dive bars.

Interests

I've covered my interests in previous paragraphs but Music, Liturature, Coffee, and Travel are the big ones.

• animals
• culture
• writing
• theater
• causes
• beer
• coffee
• marathon
• running
• shopping
• reading
• traveling
• cars
• music
• opera
• baseball
• languages
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Authors: Salinger, Fitzgerald, Lermontov, Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, Hesse, Plath, Buroughs, Bukowski, Kerouac, Dean, Kirkguard, Kafka, Bloom, Joyce, Shakespeare, Whitman, Dylan, Sedaris, Frued, Rushdie, Doyle, Faulkner.

Movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotess Mind, Amalie, Hot Fuzz, Coffee and Cigarrettes, A Christmas Story, Forrest Gump, Philadelphia, Superman, STAR WARS, Dog Day Afternoon, Godfather, LOTR, A Few Good Men, Pi, Melvin Goes to Dinner, Y Tu Mama Tambien.

TV: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Office (UK), The Office (US), Extras, Seinfeld, Friends, Robot Chicken, Cheburashka, Arrested Development, LOST.

Countries I’ve Visited

Estonia, Ireland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, United States