CURRENT MISSION

Live the fullest life possible one day at a time.

ABOUT ME

I've made the decision to walk away from a career in working on other people's content and decided to spend the next year filling my life with stories.

I hope to meet some of you reading this profile and weave you into my story in some way shape or form.

PHILOSOPHY

Work in progress...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

On a mission to help the good guys win! So, many amazing people out here in the world. I'm looking to cross paths with as many as possible and do my part in passing that good will on.

Super happy to be here!

Interests

Craft, telling stories, illustration, reading, writing, good food, new experiences, interesting people.

• writing
• film making
• illustrations
• dining
• cooking
• reading
• guitar
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

* not in any particular order

Movies: Beetlejuice, The Big Lebowski, American Graffiti, Casablanca, When Harry Met Sally, Seven, Fight Club, Moon, There Will Be Blood, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars: A New Hope and Empire, Assasination of Jesse James, Barton Fink, Robin Hood ('77 Disney version), Catch Me if you Can, The Godfather, The Conversation, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, City Lights, ET, Forrest Gump, Inception, Memento, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Groundhog Day, The Goonies, The Kid (Chaplin), Minority Report, Monsters Inc., On the Waterfront, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Last Tycoon, The Last Detail, Bound for Glory, Five Easy Pieces, Pirates of the Caribbean, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, The Rain People, THX: 1138, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Lenny, All That Jazz, The Prestige, The Triplets of Belleville, Jules and Jim, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, What's Eating Gilbert Grape and many, many more.

Music: LCD Soundsystem, Sufjan Stevens, Bright Eyes, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, The Supremes - early, Elvis (Sun Records era) Johnny Cash, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Edith Piaf, George Gershwin, Wilbur de Paris, Django Reinhart, Fleet Foxes, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen - first 3 albums, Bob Dylan, Mason Jennings, Wilco, Modest Mouse, The White Stripes, Benny Goodman.

Books: Like many Americans I have read fewer books than I like to admit. But I love... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain's short stories, EB White's essays and letters, JD Salinger's 4 efforts, Moby Dick, Jules Verne's classics, Lord of the Rings, The Alchemist, American Gods.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

done?
Moved to New York City at twenty with no connections, no job, very little money and some how everything turned out okay.

seen?
The red dirt of Georgia rushing toward me at whatever speeds a body reaches when dropped out of an airplane.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach.
Guitar, illustration, filmmaking, post-production / creative computer applications.

Learn.
Local foods, customs, cooking, languages

Share.
Life philosophies and stories.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, India, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, United States

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