CURRENT MISSION

Sleep inside sometimes

ABOUT ME

A 29 year old former (sous) chef, ecologist, firefighter, and sometimes cocktail bartender.

PHILOSOPHY

honor, respect, and an open mind.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Sometimes during a long trip accommodations fall through, which is the perfect time to meet new people!

Interests

dérive, seals, bumblebees, maps, orogenies, forest ecology, soil, synthesizers, agriculture, making music

• insects
• cooking
• politics
• traveling
• music
• cartography
• ecology
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies- menace ii society, santa sangre, the last unicorn, fievel goes west, clerks, au hasard balthazar, stroszek, fitzcarraldo, virgin spring, seventh seal, tekkon kinkreet, my neighbor totoro, goodburger, friday

Music- hijokaidan, russian tsarlag, pharmakon, narwhalz of sound, dog dick, sewn leather, mykki blanco, dj rashad, hyperdub, three six mafia, playa one, tommy wright III, gucci mane, lil ugly mane, lil b, UGK, dj screw, z-ro, mac dre, d'angelo, erykah badu, fugees, townes van zandt, hurray for the riff raff, song:ohia, hail seizures, dystopia, discharge, zounds, gism, akitsa, d-clone, masakari, thou, mono, thee silver mt. zion, silver jews, bardo pond, iji, best friends forever, guided by voices, eat skull

Books-invisible man, crime and punishment, anna karenina, goetia, infinite jest, lost in the funhouse, norwegian wood, taipei, akira, hellboy, the incal, baba yaga and the wolf, master and margarita, crime and punishment, fear and trembling, ficciones, laberintos, dune, blood wedding, in the shadow of the sabertooth

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was a teenage competitive eating phenom

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you a lot about fungi, soils, insects, water quality, and bioremediation, tell you about riding freight trains, talk politics, or listen to anyone who needs an empathetic ear

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'll cook you dinner and be your friend forever

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Denmark, Ethiopia, Germany, Iceland, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic

Countries I’ve Lived In

Sweden