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Overview

  • 4 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, Japanese, Latin
  • 34, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Student
  • MLitt in Classics
  • From Detroit, MI
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Drink life to the lees.

ABOUT ME

A girl once described my look as "Stephen Tyler's microphone-chic." I'm very happy about that.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

With zealous enthusiasm.

Interests

Literature (particularly poetry), writing, music, experience, travelling, baseball, hockey, cosmos, and all of that. I try to take in everything I can, but the things I find myself most enamored by I have to participate and create them myself.

  • writing
  • literature
  • poetry
  • walking
  • drinking
  • traveling
  • music
  • baseball
  • hockey

Music, Movies, and Books

Lord Byron, Philip Larkin, Oscar Wilde, 'Infinite Jest' by David Foster Wallace, 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, 'The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius' by Michael Moorcock, 'Pale Blue Dot' by Carl Sagan, Catullus, Horace, 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare, Virgil's poetry, Milan Kundera novels.

Films: Batman Mask of the Phantasm, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Singin' in the Rain.

Music: Anything '60s. Most things '90s. Most things '10s.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

1. Watching the moon rise over the Parthenon.
2. Visiting Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris.
3. Visiting John Keats' house in London.
4. Having coffee with Byron in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
5. Walking through the American cemetery in Normandy.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, United States

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