CURRENT MISSION

Better to burn out than to fade away.

ABOUT ME

AFTER TWO YEARS AND 45 COUNTRIES I CAN NOW REPAY MY DEBT AND HOST TRAVELERS!

Anyways, I live in New York City. I live in the borough of Brooklyn and work as a writer in Manhattan. I am pretty fond of life. I love music more than anything in the world. And dogs.

PHILOSOPHY

Speak with sincerity, believe in your convictions, be humble, and just be a good man. Quite simple, really.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've surfed in America and Europe, and I've gone to a few meet-up's here in New Orleans. I have hosted only once though.

Interests

Music, travel, reading/writing, fishing, drinking, good conversation, movies.

• dogs
• writing
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• fishing

Music, Movies, and Books

Writers:

Huge Hemingway fan, much to the disgust of my fellow English majors. But to Hell with them. Also, James Joyce, Steinbeck, Hunter S, Thompson, Carl Hiasson, Jack Kerouac, Bill Bryson, Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Klosterman, J.D Salinger, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Quinn, William S. Burroughs.

Music:
I am horribly stuck in the past, musically. I love old Blues and Soul and Folk. I also love Hip Hop and Alternative rock. I'm obsessed with the guitar.

Bob Dylan, pre-1973 Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, Jethro Tull, Bert Jansch, Smashing Pumpkins, Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Beta Band, Donovan, Bowie, Roxy Music, Fugazi, Iggy and the Stooges, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Blind Melon, Air, Stone Roses, Ride, Nas, Cat Stevens, Mad Season, Meat Puppets, De La Soul, Biggie,Tribe Called Quest, Outkast, The Kinks, Hendrix, Oasis, RJD2, Sam and Dave, Miles Davis, DEVO, The Verve, Mudhoney.

Movies: Adaptation, Into the Wild, Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Shawshank Redemption, Waking Life, Apocalypse Now, Boogie Nights, Oh Brother where art thou, Dumb and Dumber, An American Werewolf in London.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Born on the Fourth of July.

Hitchhiked across Slovakia in the back of a truck full of pigs.

Moved to New York at 18 and lived alone in a shack (seriously) under the Queensborough Bridge in New York City for 11 months. Most soul-crushingly lonely experience of my life.

Teach, Learn, Share

I play a mean guitar and would love to teach others to do the same. Also, I'm a pretty damned good fisherman. Other than that, I don't think I'm in a position to teach anything to anyone.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States