CURRENT MISSION

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ABOUT ME

I woke at 4 am one night to a strange noise. It sounded like someone was throwing a bag of old shoes around my kitchen. I got outta bed to investigate. I looked out the window onto the back deck to see two softball sized raccoons locked in a WWF Championship smack-down match. They wrestled in almost total silence beneath the moonlight, knocking around patio furniture with total impunity. The only sound they made were these determined little grunty noises. I just kept thinking "I wanna jump in".

When I was 5 years old, my moms used to protest loudly, staring down at me with her hands on her hips, "You always have something to say, dont you". Contrary to what seemed logical to me at the time, this has not always proven to be an asset in forwarding my own agenda, fyi

YIKES!
Bad breath
Itty bitty, hands & dogs
Pretenders
Avarice
Fake breasts
Runny noses

Words that make me smile
Avuncular
Critters
Oscillate
Persnickety
Loopy
Vituperation
Shirty
Gip

PHILOSOPHY

"Be who you are, say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind"
-Dr. Seuss

"Don't oppose forces; use them"
-Buckminster Fuller
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"They say I got brains, but they ain't doin me no good."
-Brian Wilson

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Interesting

Interests

Music, Snow/Skate/Surf Boarding, Film, Books, Art, The Bubble, 1.618, Traveling, Yoga, Leaving a positive wake in my life, Mid East Culture, Weimereiners

• dogs
• arts
• culture
• books
• yoga
• traveling
• music
• softball

Music, Movies, and Books

FILMS:

Alfred Hitchcock, Buckaroo Banzai, The Chocolate War, Dead Alive, Osmosis Jones, Rushmore, The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys, Grey Gardens, R Crumb, Through a Blue Lens

MUSIC:

All Funk, Cheb Khaled, Led Zeppelin, Dahmane El Harrachi, Schubert, The Rolling Stones, Low, Africando, Nick Drake, The Rachel's, Miles, J.S.Bach, Coltrane, Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone, Said Mrad, Janis Joplin, Celia Cruz, Stromae, Joe Arroyo

BOOKS:

The Moral Landscape, The Advanced Genius Theory, He Died With A Falafel In His Hand, Thoreau, The O.E.D., I Like You, The Education of Little Tree, Manchild in the Promised Land, Permanent Midnight

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Held Bill Clinton's Birthday cake as he blew out the candles after I sang him Happy Birthday

Countries I’ve Visited

France

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States