CURRENT MISSION

knife goes in, guts come out

ABOUT ME

"Where in the world is Mathew? Is that a question? I havenâ

PHILOSOPHY

One foot in the door.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I keep my profile up to date and I log in regularly.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have slept on many couches and floors all over the place.

Interests

Fine ale, the transit mall in Salem, flophouses, hops, words, tent cities, living the dream, cosmopolitanism, fog, hats, transgendered two-spirited Aleutian Eskimos, salmon, war-lordism, food preparation, derelict buildings, dimethyltryptamine, Belgian beer cafés, ghost towns, gin, pestilence, egotism, scotch, rivers, becoming the media, pidgins, terrorism, postcards, beast on man combat, huckleberries, pretty girls with kalashnikovs, papaphobia, moral erosion, prophets, language, cheap motels, starlets, vagrancy, poems about animals, helioburstout, farmhouse brewing, cons, Famagusta, shamans and kushtakas, robot vs human warfare, mangoes, lust, hashish, sexual liberation, bridges, propaganda, ancient gardens, transvestism, the city of pirates, street performance, yogurt based foods and drinks, vulgarities, honky tonkin', the Persian Gulf, grace, leisure, cheese, the Silk Road, natural disaster, hideouts, hippopotami, gluttony, the Lange Wapper, obscenity, smart cars, fruits, tree houses, the giant serpent, uprisings, migration, the bourgeoisie, rocking out, sexual deviation, games of chance, le promenade, Turkish bath houses, caravans, breakaway republics, coups d'état, Alaska, rain, brothels, Sarajevo, apocalypse, gourmet teas, opium dens, loose women, black bears and vagabondry.

• animals
• poetry
• performing arts
• dining
• cheese
• beer
• drinking
• cars
• communications
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Gram Parsons and Otis Redding. I like to listen to murder ballads such as Omie Wise and Banks of the Ohio. I read books often. The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber is a fun book to read, also The Good Soldier Svejk and his fortunes in the world war.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Total Solar eclipse, 2006.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know how to smoke salmon well.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States