CURRENT MISSION

to expand human empathy

ABOUT ME

I keep runnin' to see the sun.

PHILOSOPHY

Impermanence. Unattachedness to unreliable things. Becoming.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Getting my new apartment situated so I can keep people, on the rare occasion someone actually wants to visit Pittsburgh =O

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Now that I have a steady job at an elementary school I'd like to take minitrips during the breaks =)

Interests

balls!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY1TczB7HPY&t=5m13s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY1TczB7HPY&t=1m42s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ8j61SJFzI&t=0m7s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ8j61SJFzI&t=3m52s

rain, community outreach, cognitive linguistics, psychoacoustics, cultural anthropology, sustainable living, breakfasts, animation, lucid nightmares, dense woodland, tennis, parks, playgrounds, horror, competing with very intelligent people, being devoured by monsters, thrift stores, dumpster diving, sound art, psychogeography, comparative lit, exploring every crevice of human experience, coffee.

challenging my worldview,large emotions, overcoming adversity

• arts
• coffee
• thrifting
• juggling
• dumpster diving
• scuba diving
• tennis
• animation
• anthropology
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

music:
experimental, deep dub, jazz, hiphop, triphop, glitch, ambient, drone, noise, chillwave, witchhouse

books:
J. G. Ballard, J. L. Borges, Lovecraft, George Steiner, Barthes, U.G. Krishnamurti, Rilke, Yeats, Nabakov, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward T. Hall, Aldous Huxley, Osamu Dazai, Murakami, Mark Twain, William Hazlitt, Burroughs, Italo Calvino, Phillip K. Dick, Junji Ito

movies:
Fehérlófia, Liquid Sky, Videodrome, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Lucifer Rising, Fox and His Friends, Once Upon a Time in the West, Gundam: Char's Counterattack, Watership Down, David Cronenberg, Jodowrosky, Stephen Lynch, Kenneth Anger, The Bicycle Thief, The Plague Dogs, GWAR: Phallus in Wonderland

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I held someone while they died =(

Teach, Learn, Share

Juggling, procrastinating, tying waterballoons.

Countries I’ve Visited

United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States