CURRENT MISSION

To have seemingly unreal revelations by turning inward

ABOUT ME

Funny, flawed, artsy and passionate.
Artist, athlete, bohemian and man.

INFP.

I also don't care if it is forever or just tomorrow. I just want to meet people worth meeting.

Scorching streets, skating aqua, and teeming world after hightail out of Little Egypt.

Basquiat: http://youtu.be/btkjRw0sGeY
The prince in the cell is a portrait of the suffering artist.

I want to feed you. And I hope you can feed me, not literally. Books, music, film, art and the such are nutritional for me. I heard it on NPR one day when someone on the creative leg of the movie Fargo, which I haven't even seen, was interviewed. I think it might have been one the Coen brothers. Anyway, this man, he talked about how growing up his mother had books laying around, music playing in different rooms, films in other rooms as well. She felt to be healthy, feel good, was to be fed by these outlets. She had a hunger and knew it. She realized that this beast needed to be fed. And to read, explore great music, watch film, delve into the arts, whether fine arts or elsewhere, et cetera was to be fed. Apparently, to this day, if he goes home, it is still this whirlwind of this outlets hacking away at your appetite. And so, what I'm saying is, I realized this about myself when I heard it in this interview. I realized it was more true than about anything in regards to me personally. It was just actualization. And, really, my friends, those I choose to be around, we feed each other. And that's what I want.

And I know I write very stringently, but I'm adaptable, flexible.

PHILOSOPHY

That would take awhile.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm not how familiar you are with the Greek concept of Xenia, but that is essentially more what I'm looking for. And I don't mean that by necessity of food, bath, gift, and so on (which are some of the "rules" of Xenia). I meant if you read Greek text(s) and understand that attitude, hospitality, and general interest in delving into why it is worth meeting, hosting/staying with another, the experience itself, that is what I'm searching for. Understanding the genial, cohesive encounters where Xenia takes place in Greek texts is understanding what makes CS (hopefully in my mind) a modern day Xenia.

Interests

I like to attend engaging lectures, poetry readings, open mics, concerts, fine art exhibits, plays, hop the wine trails, volunteer, and other aesthetic/artistic/philosophical//sociological/altruistic events/modes of conversation/happenings. And this is drastically reductive in trying to write out some formulation of what I like to do. It should give you an idea without making me feel like this a project.

I'm also a pretty active person. I don't know if I run from the nightmares, run out all the bad dreams or what else is sifting. I'm a closet athlete. I love working out. Long-distance running have been my drug of choice for quite awhile now too.
We all have different vehicles to burn out the ache when it surfaces, even at different times in our life. And, well, I guess as of late mine has been to lean myself into a numbing type of pain that paradoxically pushes adrenaline and endorphins into my body which burns me into where better is.

In the spirit of CS interest: http://www.destination360.com/europe/italy/venice/bridge-of-sighs/virtual-tour

• arts
• humanities
• books
• poetry
• concerts
• dining
• wine
• running
• athlete
• working out
• movies
• cars
• socializing
• music
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Writers: Allen Ginsberg, Van Morisson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rod Serling, Jack Kerouac, Donald Miller, Henry James, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, e.e. cummings, The Rossettis, Sherman Alexie, Alfred Tennyson, Paul McCartne, Joe Hawley-Andrew Horowitz-Rob Cantor, Jessica Hagedorn, Jeff Buckley, Bruce Morrow, Washington Irving, Franz Kafka, Ambrose Bierce, Percival Everett, Sufjan Stevens, William Shakespeare, Voltaire, Tony Kushner, Robert Browning, Jack London, Leonard Cohen, George Orwell, W.H Auden, C.S. Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Maira Kalman, Friedrich Nietzsche, Blaise Pascal, Justin Vernon, Richard Russo, Marcus Mumford, Jacques Derrida, J. Hillis Miller, Yann Martel, Don DeLillo, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Kurt Vonnegut, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Cormac McCarthy, Aldous Huxley, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Robert M. Pirsig, etc.

Literary Titles: The Yellow Wallpaper, Minds, Brains, and Science, The House of Life, The Principles of Uncertainty, Pensées, Rip Van Winkle, The Devil's Dictionary, Candide: Or Optimism, Twentieth-Century Literary Theory, Wuthering Heights, Notes from Underground, Taking Sides: Bioethical Issuses, Old School, Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land, Angels in America, Sonnets in Portuguese, Classics of Western Thought: The Modern World, Beyond Good and Evil, The Fall of America, Blackbird Singing, Much Ado About Nothing, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Doctor Zhivago, To Kill a Mockingbird, Queer, White Noise, Blue Like Jazz, The Bell Jar, Catcher In The Rye, The Road, Life of Pi, White Fang, Call of the Wild, The Bellarosa Connection, American Pastoral, Brave New World, On the Road, Love in the Time of Cholera, Slaughterhouse-Five, Erasure, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Devil's Dictionary, Blackbird Singing, Howl, Astral Weeks, The Metamorphosis, Frankenstein, Pink Moon, Call of the Wild, Sonnets in Portuguese, Daisy Miller, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Angels in America, Etc.

Movies: 500 Days of Summer, Waking Life, Slacker, Before Sunset, Before Sunrise, Psycho, What Dreams May Come, Emotional Arithmetic, Shattered Glass, Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School, Leaves of Grass, Doubt, The Cake Eaters, A Clockwork Orange, Into the Wild, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, London, Neverwas, Spread, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Dead Poets Society, Religulous, Good Will Hunting, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Last Word, Fight Club, American Psycho, The Human Experience, Milk, P.S. I Love You, Dead Poet's Society, Born Into Brothels, Peaceful Warrior, Plus many documentaries, etcetera

Music: Mumford and Sons, Tegan and Sara, Nathan Angelo, Josh Ritter, Sigur Rós, Regina Spektor, Muse, M83, Eric Hutchinson, Bon Iver, John Frusciante, Nick Drake, Sufjan Stevens, Tally Hall, Jeff Buckley, Van Morrison, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Et cetera

Teach, Learn, Share

Man is a giddy thing.

Countries I’ve Visited

Japan

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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