I'm a piano technician in New Orleans who dabbles in bicycle framebuilding, accordion repair, and crafting of all kinds.

Take a look at some of the piano work I do at nolapiano.com

PHILOSOPHY

Everything will work out if you let it. Stress never helped anyone.

When I have personal dilemmas about whether or not I should do something, I like to ask myself the question "Why not?" and then go ahead and do it without bothering to answer myself.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Lately I've been doing most of my hosting offline. Working at a non-profit bike shop is good for that... lots of bike tourists come through.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Some of the most amazing people I know are folks I've met through their/my couches

Interests

Linux, Sewing machines, web design, graphic art, aerial silks, bike maintenance, veggie-oil conversions, Dvorak keyboards, Yoga, AcroYoga, tea, craftiness, slack-lining, poi, hula hooping, promoting a civilization based on the human heart and not on technology, veganism, un-compartmentalizing the collective knowledge, ginger shots, crochet!, juggling (contact and normal), guitar, piano, tapestries on walls, tapestries on ceilings, Free School, Didgeridoos, book exchange, poetry, hang drums, India Ink tattoos, jawharp, non-fiction, music and art in general, learning how to tie new knots, vegetables, making my own clothes,Climbing Things!!!

• arts
• books
• poetry
• design
• tattoos
• festivals
• vegan
• yoga
• running
• working out
• flying
• shopping
• clothing
• technology
• crochet
• juggling
• dumpster diving
• music
• guitar
• piano
• drums
• cycling
• scuba diving
• sailing
• rock climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Hot 8 Brass Band, Rebirth Brass Band, Miru Kim, Pilobolus, anything by Jan Svankmajer, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, This is What Democracy Looks Like, Hold Fast, Baraka, Waking Life, Tom Waits, Nina Simone, Elliott Smith, Kalyi Jag, Philip Glass, The Carter Family, Herman Düne, Bon Iver, The Tallest Man on Earth, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Big Freedia, Yann Tiersen, Dark Dark Dark, Pine Leaf Boys, Talking Heads,the Gazetteers, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bright Eyes, Beck, The Balfa Brothers, and Sigur RosThe Chainbreaker Bike Book, The Paterek Manual, The Trouble With Islam Today, Be Here Now, The Sexual Politics of Meat, GEB, Notes from the Underground, Conversations In Sicily, Wind Sand and Stars,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived in New Orleans.

Danced to Michael Jackson during a huge bonfire on a completely isolated mountain monastery with jump-roping Taiwanese Buddhist monks with super-sketchy fireworks going off all around while the pizza delivery guy was rolling up. Brewed kombucha. Attended a Really Really Free Market. Shared love with another human being. Gone scuba diving in underwater caves. Danced at a music festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Surfed the T in Boston. Remained silent for 10 days straight. Cooked for 160 people for 10 days straight. Participated in a Flash Mob Freeze. Hitchhiked. Lived in a Taiwanese Buddhist monastery for a month. Held a spontaneous pillow fight with 100 other people in downtown San Diego. Played in an improvised PVC-pipe-instrument parade. Rafted down class 4 rapids. Rode Critical Mass around 2 different state capitols (running count). Had a giant sea turtle emerge from the sands beneath me. Juggled through a revolving door. Free dived off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Listened to "Here Comes The Sun" during a northern Illinois sunrise while driving 6 hours back from a Radiohead show in St. Louis. Picked a tomato and ate it. Taught myself piano, guitar, juggling, poi, slack-line. Snowboarded from the top of a Rocky mountain to the bottom entirely through heavy woods. Driven a houseboat down the Mississippi river. Peeled peppers & barely touched my eye & consequently rolled around on the ground in pain for 20 minutes. Skydived over Lake Michigan. Slept in a flying saucer. Stood on top of Salvation Mountain. Made $13 per hour juggling/hula hooping at a farmer's market. Dumpster dived an entire vegan pumpkin pie. Danced with Pilobolus. Lived at an ashram in British Columbia. Assembled my own bicycle out of all scrap parts. Built a bicycle frame from scratch

Teach, Learn, Share

I really really love teaching my passions to people. If we spend any time together, I'll probably try to teach you juggling, piano repair, plumbing. How to make certain fermented foods (Kimchi!!!). How to fix your bicycle. How to create a collapsible hula hoop! How to tie a monkeys-fist knot! How to crochet anything you will ever need (hats, backpacks, scarves, headbands, anklets, poi handles!)

Please teach me about sailboats/sailing. Please teach me to play fiddle.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Taiwan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, United States

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