CURRENT MISSION

Losing my mind.

ABOUT ME

I work as a TV producer in LA to increase my skills and abilities so I can produce my own shows. Been practicing Transcendental Meditation (TM) since I was 18, finished university where all students and teacher practice TM.
Traveled In Europe, India, Japan, Thailand Five brothers and sisters.

PHILOSOPHY

Your choices and actions define your values. I live to enjoy every moment, and understand that "enjoy" is constanlty growing to include all emotions, feelings - to "enjoy" bliss and sadness, emptiness and fullness. I live to enjoy and to help others have more to enjoy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host when I can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Two weeks in Feb '06 staying with seven diff CS'ers in Japan. Fantastic people - in Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Osaka, Shimambarra, Kumamoto and Hammamatsu. Highlights: with Doug Beacom near Shimambarra on Kyushu. We spent a day at a school where he teaches english to kids from 9 - 14 once a week. The town is far into the mountains at the end of the road. A small farming village. We My friend yuri and I completly fell under these kids spell. Showed me the best of Japan. Six kids , two very committed teachers. beautiful.
Karaoke with Alex and Yuri Kumamoto. We stayed with Alex in his 2.5 X 2.5 meter room in an old house. He sang teen Japanese love songs with hysterical lyrics. And we met his and friends at the coolest hang out restaurant in the city. it was like staying with a generous, brilliant, off the wall cousin.

Met my friend Baz from Netherlands in India and next year slept at his place near Amsterdam for five days- next year he and his girlfriend stayed at my place in LA for a month while I was out of town. Was great getting to know his aptmates.

Interests

Connecting. People who interest and challenge me. Making great toast. Writing.
Trancendental Meditation, Creating my own tv show,
Mountian Biking, organic food and sharing meals, the sea,
Media technology and reform. West African Drumming and trap set druming.

• writing
• dining
• cooking
• organic food
• meditation
• technology
• tv
• karaoke
• cycling
• communications
• teaching
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Allan Watts - anything he wrote
Writing Down the Bones, by Natalie Goldberg
Calvin and Hobbes
The Power of Now, and A New Earth by Ekhart Tolle
Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda
Walden by Thoreau
Train Spotting by Irving Welsh
Tolstoy, Dostoievsky, Gogol, Joyce, Hemingway, Toni Morrison....
Born to Kvetch
Everything Bad Is Good For You, by Steven Johnson
Wired Magazine
Radio: BBC World, NPR, PacificaRadio.org, democracynow.org
TV: South Park, Daily Show, Travel shows
Music: Bjork, Arcade Fire, Gillian Welch, Ryan Adams, Beatles, Immogean Heap, Death Cab for Cutie, Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, Baba Maal, Geggi Tah,
Movies: Matrix, Fight Club, Office Space, Three Kings, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovitch, Ground Hog Day, Lost In Translation,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Drank water right out of the Ganges at its source high in the Himalayas in India.
Meditated with 5000 people in Washington D.C. for weeks.
Been in love with someone who loved me back.
Had Japanese kids take us on a tour of their farming village and lead me by the hand.
Ate wild mushrooms out of the ground.
Connected with truly awake people.
Produced and wrote a TV show.

Teach, Learn, Share

TV Producing, video production, love to cook with groups

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Germany, India, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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