CURRENT MISSION

To wander North America with a bunch of puppets looking for adventure.

ABOUT ME

I'm a swell guy who lacks direction and travels with baggage. I'm driving around until I find something, then I'll go look for something else. I think it would be nice to have someone driving with me, wandering homeless and looking for adventures.

PHILOSOPHY

Something kinda Quaker. Wiki it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'll want people to come with me, sleeping on my wandering sofa.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Before this site, I crashed on floors, slept in backs of cars, scheduled overnight flights and trains and busses, picked up "new friends" in bars, and, of course, slept on couches as I've wandered around. Now that I'm on here, I've been doing all of that still, but I also find safe, nice people who share their homes with me even though they don't know me except on here. Once I stop traveling, I'll be hosting people in whatever city I settle in.

Interests

Putting together events, collecting things no one needs, Film Festivals, puppets for grown-ups, artsy fartsy shit, indie electro music stuff, cute geeky guys, Quakers who don't believe in gods

• arts
• festivals
• film festivals
• traveling
• cars
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
The Faint, Kraftwerk, Frank Sinatra, FischerSpooner, Ella Fitzgerald, Ladytron, Mrs. Miller, Bloc Party, Depeche Mode, Freeezepop, Chicks on Speed, Bratmobile, New Order, Sonic Youth, Interpol, Scissor Sisters, Electrocute, Joy Division, Hole, Felix da Housecat, Daft Punk, Peggy Lee, The Smiths, The Cure, 80's alterna-rock, Nina Simone, Avenue D, Massive Attack, LCD Soundsystem, Del the Funkee Homosapien, Sleater-Kinney, Sugarcubes, U2, Esquivel, le tigre, Moby, Portishead, Deltron 3030, Punjabi MC, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Jem and the Holograms, Adult., 2 Many Djs, The Frogs, T.A.T.U., Audio Bullys, Yaz, Cat Power, Tom Waits, Crash Worship, Bubonique, Huggy Bear, The Sugarcubes, REM, Thrill Kill Kult, Miss Kittin, Electric 6, Fine Young Cannibals, Butthole Surfers, David Bowie, Alex Gopher, B-52s, Beastie Boys, Ill Mitch, trashy cover songs, 80's electronic stuff from the Sex Dwarf circuit, The Breeders, The Postal Service, Marilyn Manson, Peaches, Jem and the Holograms, Frou Frou, Psychedelic Furs, music made with computers and no guitars.....

Movies:
Silence of the Lambs, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Professional, Heathers, Mean Girls, Killing Zoe, Run Lola Run, Pretty in Pink, Election, Rushmore, Harold and Maude, Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, various independent films, Tron, City of Lost Children, Freeway, Charade, Some Kind of Wonderful, Trainspotting, Pink Flamingoes, Hair Spray, Female Trouble, Serial Mom, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Sunset Boulevard, Valley of the Dolls, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls [no relation], Big Fish, Spellbound, The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover, Best in Show, Reform School Girls, Meet the Feebles, Mildred Pierce, Garden State, Brokeback Mountain

Television:
Cartoons: Drawn Together, Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, Robot Chicken, [adult swim]

News: CNN, BBC News, Fox News (to keep myself angry at the world)

HBO: Six Feet Under (RIP), Sopranos (RIP), Big Love

Movies: Sundance Channel, IFC

Documentaries: Dirty Jobs, Home surgery channel (a.k.a. Discovery Health), Modern Marvels, MythBusters

Network TV: [This space intentionally left blank]

Books:
David Sedaris, Michael Thomas Ford, Kurt Vonnegut, Geek Love, the dictionary in various forms, Harry Potter, Bret Easton Ellis, Fast Food Nation, Kinky Friedman, Michael Moore, J.G. Ballard, vintage encyclopaediae

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Something about puppets and art and stuff.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm looking to learn how to be a traveler. I know how to drive from place to place, but I don't know how to wander. I need to meet full-time travelers who can help me get over my need to cling to the home town I never seem to be able to leave.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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