CURRENT MISSION

university...

ABOUT ME

My blog: http://wanderingmoccasin.blogspot.com

PHILOSOPHY

"The solace of such work as I do with brain and heart lies in this: that only there, in the silences of the painter or the writer can reality be reordered, reworked and made to show its significant side...For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it to its true potential--the imagination..."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

some surfing...

Interests

writing, theater, literature and poetry, yoga, running, swimming, traveling, languages, coffeebeans, policy not politics, wine, food, cigarettes, the word paradox

• arts
• writing
• literature
• poetry
• theater
• dining
• wine
• yoga
• running
• politics
• traveling
• blogging
• surfing
• swimming
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Memento, Waltz with Bashir, Reservoir Dogs, Brick, Eternal Sunshine, Amelie, American Beauty, There Will Be Blood, Wall-E, Lawrence of Arabia, Lion in Winter, Godfather, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Dr. Strangelove, Monty Python, Fight Club, Wind that Shakes the Barley

Music: Jeff Buckley, Damien Rice, Radiohead, Interpol, Beck, Lil Wayne, Bon Iver, Kate Nash, Yann Tiersen, Max Richter, Jack Johnson, Jose Gonzales, The Frames, Iron and Wine, MIA, Lily Allen, Lykke Li, Jenny Lewis, Sigur Ros, Nouvelle Vague, Goldfrapp, Andrew Bird, Beirut, Lauryn Hill, Guster, Cake, The Decemberists, The Velvet Underground, Citizen Cope, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Newton Faulkner, Bon Iver, Josh Pyke, Paolo Nutini, KT Tunstall

Books: The Alexandria Quartet, Brave New World, Beloved, anything by Shakespeare, anything by David Sedaris, Human all too Human, Closer, Antigone, The Odyssey, The Great Gatsby, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Bright Lights Big City, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Chocolat

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We discovered Obama had won the election while eating Magnolia cupcakes in downtown New York. Instead of going to bed, as might have been the sensible thing to do, we ventured up to Times Square to watch his acceptance speech. And for the first, and what I imagine might be the only, time in my life I watched as Times Square stood completely silent, reverent, watching in awe as our forty-fourth president claim his country.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Costa Rica, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, United States