CURRENT MISSION

To share a drink and a smile at the far corners of the globe. To discover new species of flora and fauna in unchartered regions of Africa. To watch, see, breath, be, and fall in and out and in and out of love with the world and its bizarre denizens.

ABOUT ME

My name is Beau. I am an artist, a writer, a thinker, a drinker, a humanist, a humorist, a self-congratulating narcissist, a brooding approval-starved foster child of suburban America, an unapologetic romantic, a staunch supporter of rule-breaking in arenas both secular and non, a sexual dynamo of apocalyptic proportions, a sparkling wordsmith, a brazen liberal, a maverick, a revolutionary, a iconoclast, and - generally speaking - a lover of this ticking timebomb of truth and beauty we call the WORLD.

PHILOSOPHY

O remember
In your narrowing dark hours
That more things move
Than blood in the heart

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've flopped on cushions in New York, London, Dublin, Glasgow, Brussels, Paris, and Rekyavik. I'm new at this, and am hoping to expand my resume to include brocade patterns in the Far East and weathered corduroy in the South of Greece.

Interests

Painting, writing, drawing, reading, sculpting, looking, finding, watching, laughing, seeing, being, breathing, and falling in and out and in and out of love.

• writing
• beauty
• drinking
• reading
• painting
• drawing

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Radiohead, Ben Folds, Muse, Coldplay, Elliot Smith, Damien Rice, The Smiths, David Gray, The Charlatans, Gershwin, Django Reinhardt, Dave Brubeck, Foo Fighters, Phish, Beethoven (piano sonatas, mostly), Rage Against the Machine, Thelonious Monk, Dashboard Confessional, Mazzy Star, Fiona Apple, Regina Spektor, etc. etc. etc.

Movies: American Beauty, Batman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Murderball, The Fly, Four Rooms, The Usual Suspects, Three Amigos, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Go, Pulp Fiction, The Matrix, Labyrinth, Sin City, The Big Lebowski - to name a few

Television: Lost, The Simpsons, Family Guy, 24, The Office, The Kids in the Hall, The Twilight Zone, Ren and Stimpy, Sealab 2021...

Books: 'Skinny Legs and All' by Tom Robbins, 'Anna Karenina' by Dostoyevsky, 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy O'Toole, 'Naked' by David Sedaris, 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' by Dave Eggers, 'House of Leaves' by Mark Z. Danielewski, 'Stiff' by Mary Roach, and a jaundiced graveyard of others....

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States