CURRENT MISSION

The same thing we do every night, Pinky...

ABOUT ME

I'm probably the nicest arrogant bastard you've ever met ;-) There's a fine line between a sardonic wit and a judgmental cynic; hopefully I've learned to walk it well.

So what /am/ I a snob about? Trivially: films, beer, politics, sports. I like both my comedies and my beers dark -- the darker the better. I'll happily entertain any political POV, so long as you're prepared for it to be deconstructed. The Spurs and the Blue Devils are favored to win every game they play, period.

Surprisingly, not computers or music, even though that's what I spend my days & nights doing. Computers are ultimately just tools; hard to get worked up about picking the right one for the job. Music snobbery is off-limits for the opposite reason: it can inspire such a wide range of passions that I can't exclude anything a priori. I spend a fair amount of time listening to random crap on college radio. Even when I don't like it, which is often, I never feel it wasn't worthwhile. And it goes without saying I'll play any instrument or join any ensemble that looks cool...at least once.

PHILOSOPHY

The line between genius and insanity is marked only by success. -- some expendable Bond flick villian

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I surf and am surfed upon. At least in theory.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted all the cool people you see below. Only surfed once so far; building up karma for a big trip, I suppose.

Interests

practicing my instruments, my free throws, and my poker face

being a guitar hero!

• beer
• politics
• movies
• poker
• music
• guitar
• sports

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Music:
Richard Strauss, Radiohead, Bach, NSync, Spock's Beard, Youngblood Brass Band, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Mos Def, Bela Fleck, Thelonius Monk, Genesis

Favorite TV Shows:
Firefly, The Daily Show, Band of Brothers, Entourage, Serial Experiments Lain, Farscape, Greg the Bunny, Family Guy, Animaniacs, Good Eats

Favorite Movies:
Good Will Hunting; Serenity; Office Space; The Pianist; The Talented Mr. Ripley; Being John Malkovich; South Park - Bigger, Longer, Harder, uh uh etc.; The Incredibles; DeLovely; Casablanca; Amelie; Shaolin Soccer; Adaptation; Lost in Translation

Favorite Books:
Fiction: Songmaster (early Orson Scott Card); The Brothers Karamazov; Phillip K. Dick shorts; Hyperion; The Phantom Tollbooth; Mark Twain, and his kindred spirits in every age

Nonfiction: Douglas Hofstadter, Lawrence Lessig, Adorno/Foucault, James Boyle, Chomsky, Jagdish Bhagwati, Sklansky/Malmulth/Miller, Murry Rothbard

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiked over the top of the Matterhorn in the dead of winter, quite by accident, as the early sunset on the mountain threatened to strand me overnight...

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, United States

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