Way less serious than that guy in the photos.

Record producer, mixing engineer, and sound designer.
From Los Angeles/Hollywood. Recently living in Sweden for 3yrs. Currently living in Budapest.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Currently hosting travelers in Budapest. Possibly looking for hosts if I decide to meander around the continent at some point.

Interests

learning everything about everything, coffee, crazy diets, nachos, Sweden, meditation, longevity, nutrition, nootropics, redwoods, sushi, neuroscience, fermentation, hifi headphones, museums, bullet journals, airports, highfalutin literature, trying and failing and trying and failing and trying to be present, being persuaded that I’m wrong, kind optimists who are smarter than I am

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Jon Hopkins, Brian Eno, Sigur Ros, Danger Mouse, Bob Dylan, Fleet Foxes, early Wilco, early Shins, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Leonard Cohen, Jim Croce, Philip Glass, Neil Young, Bill Withers, Nina Simone, David Byrne, The Beatles, Bowie. Currently listening to Fleet Foxes and Car Seat Headrest.

Movies: most Miyazaki, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Spike Jonze, many more

TV: Sherlock, Breaking Bad, The Wire, Arrested Development, Chopped, Chef's Table, Bojack Horseman, Rick & Morty, Dirk Gently S1, Black Mirror, Broad City, Fargo, Planet Earth, Master of None, Silicon Valley, Louie, Better Call Saul

Books: 100 Years of Solitude, Calvin and Hobbes...Lit, sci, soc, phil, bio, hard sci-fi, graphic...Yuval Noah Harari, DFW, Franzen, Chabon, Delillo, Pinker, Sapolsky, Sam Harris, Tim Ferriss, Greg Egan, Kahneman, Orwell, Feynman...The Flavor Bible, On Food and Cooking, The Art of Fermentation...Winnie the Pooh, The Little Prince...will throw WaitButWhy in here since that's basically book-length at this point...

Games: The Witness, Portal, Portal 2, Braid, Undertale, BotW, Bananagrams

Podcasts: Radiolab, 99% Invisible, Hardcore History, FoundMyFitness, Pensado's Place, Philosophy Bites, Serial, Song Exploder, Intelligence^2, Nature Podcast, After On, The Comedian's Comedian, Tim Ferriss, Very Bad Wizards, Waking Up, Hanging out with Audiophiles

What I Can Share with Hosts

If you have songs or recordings, I can offer writing/mixing/production suggestions to take them up a notch, or guitar/piano/synthesizer/production lessons.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Denmark, England, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Hungary, Sweden, United States, Viet Nam