Trying to figure out who I am and what I do, but along the way I've built some big dumb art, helped throw some really good and some really bad parties, and managed to find a place in a more incredible community of humans than I'd ever have imagined. I'm curious, capable, have a lot of skills and a little bit of education. I have a love/hate relationship with both my home town and my home country, but I believe there's beauty to be found pretty much everywhere and and that human creativity is a truly wonderful thing (even if it's responsible for a lot of bad things.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

'cause people are great (usually) and I really believe in the value of cultural exchange and shared experiences!

Interests

Everything's interesting if presented right, but I tend towards the technical. Sustainability, technology, and how people work are some of my key interests and I'm getting very much into urban planning & development. Music is essential and I'm slowly trying to rebuild my once abandoned cello skills.

• arts
• environment
• technology
• cars
• painting
• woodworking
• survival
• music
• physics

Music, Movies, and Books

These days I'm trying to figure out how to still DJ while my musical tastes have shifted from driving electronic music to a mix of world music and indie electronic and hopefully bring in some of the rap and other things I used to listen to a whole lot.
I grew up on jazz and classical (which I love), spent a few years screaming "punk or death!" then got into everything else. Literally. Now, I think i have more rap (of all sorts) than anything else, but am partial to the 50,000 song collection on shuffle.
Vonnegut, Pahlniuk, Robbins, Feynman, Gaiman, to name some fictional authors. I generally loathe being told "You have to read this book." That said, three books I think everyone should read:
1: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things by William
McDonough
2: Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
3: The Art of Power by Thich Nhat Hanh

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Feast of the Overpass. Easter Sunday, Bushdarado, TX, 33 years running. I've only missed it once. Please ask if you want to know more. It's exactly why I love where I come from.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can fix nearly anything I can fully understand, and a few things I can't. Professionally, I've worked on cars (especially electrical), buildings, water purification systems, fabrication equipment, and computers (though most of those were at the same job). I love to soak up knowledge about the functions of things, in everything from woodworking to espresso, pizza to paint, bikes, light bulbs, computer programs, city planning, name it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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