CURRENT MISSION

Settle never!

ABOUT ME

I like to create things, concrete or metaphysical--to tear them down into component parts and build them back up. And I like to talk about this process. I like to search for harmony amongst the seemingly disparate, and to use my hands in this process as much as my brain. I like to have a good time. I like to connect with other people and learn from them. I like weird.

PHILOSOPHY

Whip it. And whip it good!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm currently offering coffee and companionship in Oakland, CA. I'm sort of transient at the moment, but hope to start offering a place to stay in the future. I'm interested in providing an alternative approach to passive tourism. Tourist traps are nauseating--traveling should be about exploring the relationship between geography and lifestyle, not wandering silently through sterile exhibits. History should be absorbed through conversation, not read from placards or dictated by uniformed personnel.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm brand new to couchsurfing, though no stanger to crashing with folks I've never, or only recently met.

Interests

Drums, guitars, synths. Smelly old vinyl cranked up loud! Crisp new vinyl cranked up loud! DIY electronics. Reading technical documents about sound.
20th century American fiction. Philip K. Dick. Improvised speech and music. Dancing (drunkinly).

• diy
• dancing
• coffee
• electronics
• reading
• traveling
• music
• drums
• geography
• history
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Philip K. Dick, Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Marshall McLuhan, William Gibson, James Joyce and Nora Barnacle's lover letters, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Mike Watt, V.Vale,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Occupy Oakland

Teach, Learn, Share

I'll teach

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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