CURRENT MISSION

Living in Athens, studying Permaculture and working on a number of sustainable home & garden projects

ABOUT ME

Not much for self-promotion, but I'm pretty laid back, just like to have fun, love to write & play music and am always looking for other singer/songwriters to hang out with, but am also pretty serious and committed to human rights and environmental issues. Been living in Japan for 3 years, teaching english and playing music. Rode my bike across Japan this past summer (www.beejapan.org). Psychology major/english minor, things like wars and punctuation make little sense to me, oh, and I want to revolutionize the current global mass culture, starting with my own garden.

PHILOSOPHY

1-anything I need to live off is provided free by nature, all I have to do is figure out which mushrooms will kill me and which one will fill my tummy and mind
2-slower lifestyle pace, living life for the experience instead of charging through on consumer conveyor belt
3-hand-made, leg-power
4-as my buddy Rylan and I discovered in college, there are 2 kinds of people, one who just wants to live free and have a good time without harming other people, and the other who likes to tell the first guy he can't do that

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

back home now in GA, living in a new place with friend Sarah, looking forward to doing more traveling, hosting, WWOOFing, up for whatever

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Stayed with a couple of really great people while on BEE Japan 2009 Tour, really great experiences all around

Interests

originally composed music written from a place of inspiration, Japanese pottery, cycling, organic farming, other outdoor sports & activities, or just simply walking up to the top of the hills nearby and reading a book, when I am in cities I feel the need to drink--something about being overwhelmed by so much concrete, glass, and steel

• culture
• books
• human rights
• cooking
• vegetarian
• walking
• drinking
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• pottery
• music
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• sports
• geography
• psychology
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

music--mine of course! (http://salemjapanyears.blogspot.com/), anything humanly composed, Talking Heads are awesome too, Andy McKee recently, OutKast, Death Cab, Guster, Bob Dylan, Beethoven's 9th 2nd movement, classical, Emmet Ray & other jazz guitar, blues, oldies, Beatles, it's all good
movies--recently a lot of documentaries, love Cohen Bros, Charlie Kauffman, soft spot for Will Ferrell & and improv comedy
books--(just looking at my shelf) Noam Chomsky, The World Without Us, Omnivore's Dilemma, Japanese Culture stuff, e.e. cummings, Steven Pinker, The Rig Vedas, White Like Me, Collapse, Japanese books on energy issues, organic farming, environmental issues, Terry Prachett, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, Man and Superman, Hunter S. Thompson, Chuck Palaniuk,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Angkor Wat's Ta Prohm just around dusk before the sun set with a friend--the place come alive, drew pictures and contemplated

Teach, Learn, Share

Japanese pottery, Chuck Palaniuk, Japanese Language, Culture & Geography, Psychology, 19th~21st Century Brit/Am Lit, Permaculture (organic farming & sustainable living systems), vegetarian cooking?

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