CURRENT MISSION

anarcho-couchsurfing-ism

ABOUT ME

Hey Y'all,

I'm a pretty easy going person yet I thrive off of difficult conversations. I'm polite and blunt. I have an absolute passion for journalism: trying to see the world in the micro & macrocosm, seeing humanity and injustice, trying to bring light to issues, trying to get others to be more aware to build solidarity & raise awareness, to potentially achieve positive change. I want to analyze everything specifically looking at who is unjustly privileged, who is silenced, ignored, & oppressed.

I have many graces towards social interactions: I try not to dominate conversation or talk only about myself (despite this bio. haha). I try to respect diversity in all manners be it ideological or cultural or physical, etc. I am a temporarily able bodied, male-bodied, 30 something, "white" human being. I try to weigh every decision i make via it's ecological & social impact.

I've recently committed to the arts. I am at the nascent stage of trying to make a living via writing, photography, design, on and on. Most of my attention and effort is geared towards my crafts. I'm an outgoing person, yet discipline renders me less so sometimes.

PHILOSOPHY

carpe diem; candle burns at both ends; burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..; be unafraid

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've been an active member since 2006.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted and surfed so many times and i never have had a bad experience.

Interests

traveling, photography, activism, journalism, photojournalism, reading, debate, radical politics, art, dancing, philosophy, researching, biking, writing, documentaries, hiking, conversation, intimacy, organizing, progressivism, coffee, community, permaculture, building, creating, food politics, cooking, collecting, being called out, fires, crafting, books, copy machines, rope swings, roof tops, climbing, views, sunbathing, surfing, anarchy, anarchism, deep ecology, interpersonal work, polyamory, learning, teaching, studying, weed, rope, sailing, music, mead, stationary, yard sailing, challenges, seeing through the machine, connecting...

• arts
• writing
• books
• design
• photography
• documentaries
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• coffee
• crafts
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• sailing
• rock climbing
• ecology
• journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: Dead Prez, Girl Talk, mash-ups, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Philip Glass, Michael Stearns, Fka Twigs, CocoRosie, Mumford and Sons, Lil Wayne, opera, Die Antwoord, The Tuneyards, The Stooges, Skrillex, Cat Power, most sound tracks, Clint Mansell, Maserati, Four Tet, Macklemore and Ryan Luis, Explosions in the Sky, Ratatat, Le Tigre, Air, DJ Shadow, Operation Ivy, Ryan Adams, The Smashing Pumpkins, VAST, Hurtbird, Berg Sans Nipple, Nine Inch Nails, Jay Z rocks my socks off, Kanye West

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MOVIES: Any documentary, but as for fiction: Fight Club, Frida, Stand By Me, Pink Flamingos, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Never Ending Story, Shirley Valentine, The Swimmer, Requiem for a Dream, Shawshank Redemption, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Punch Drunk Love, American Beauty, The Big Lebowski, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Happiness, One Hour Photo, Gummo, Gleaming the Cube, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, A Christmas Story, Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, Napoleon Dynamite, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Me and You and Everyone We Know.

Baraka, Koyannisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, Winged Migration, Microcosmos, March of the Penguins, Samsara

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BOOKS: Henry Miller blows me away,
Henry and June by Anaïs Nin changed my life,
John Steinbeck made me want to be a writer,
Hunter S Thompson was a compass in my youth,
New Journalism, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley,
Coyotes by Ted Conover,
The Human Animal by Desmond Morris,
Off The Map by Kika Kat and Hib Chickena,
Evasion by anonymous,
Atlas of the Human Heart by Ariel Gore,
Down And Out in Paris and London by George Orwell,
The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century by Peter Watson,
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser.
But my favorite fiction books are dystopias:
1984 by George Orwell,
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley,
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury,
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess,
Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson

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PHOTOGRAPHERS: Diane Arbus, James Natchwey, Mary Ellen Mark, Richard Avedon's In the American West, Roger Ballen, Robert Mapplethorpe, most photographers inspired by Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Terry Richardson,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Well, when i was around thirteen years old, disgusted with the worker drone status quo, i decided to liv my life however i want to. Skrew the mainstream way of life. That was almost two decades ago and counting. And i feel i've kept my own promise.

Teach, Learn, Share

...a lifetime to share...

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Botswana, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania, United States, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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