CURRENT MISSION

To Live

ABOUT ME

I am a friendly guy who loves to read, eat, travel, listen to music and stories, and wants to travel and meet people in as many places as possible.

PHILOSOPHY

Outside of a dog, a book, is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it is to dark to read.

Education is learning what you didnt even know you didnt know.

Not so personal but I tend to agree with most of Russell's philosophies

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Bertrand Russell

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have used CS to make peoples' travels easier, showing them my biased opinions of the hip areas in my town. I take full advantage of the wonderful people on CS especially the Napolitans.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Bravo. Has contributed to the most important experiences of my life. Grazie

Interests

teaching literature, learning from my students, salad, people with interesting philosophies, concerts, my mom, coffee, tea, conversation, literature, music, family, school (when the teachers are interesting), reading Wikipedia, watching movies, and animals.

• animals
• dogs
• books
• literature
• concerts
• music festivals
• festivals
• education
• coffee
• clothing
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
Anything by Tom Robbins, D.H. Lawrence, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Orwell, Everything is Illuminated, In a Lonely Place, Farewell My lovely, Double Indemnity, Return of Queztacoatl 2012, Bridegroom, Glass Castle, The Gospel According to Mark (Borges), Any Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes, On the Road, Electric Koolaid Acid Test, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Autobiography of a Face, The Importance of Being Earnest, Rule of the Bone, anything by Bertrand Russel, anything by David Foster Wallace, Vonnegut, Kesey, etc...

Music:
architecture in helsinki, broken social scene, built to spill, 1 mile north, antony and the johnsons, MIA, of montreal, hotchip, beirut, fiery furnaces, arthur russel, phosphorescent, jens lekman, Lackthereof, tom waits, sigur ros, stereolab, wolf parade, the magnetic fields, brian eno, herbie hancock, coltrane, miles davis, stevie wonder, danger doom, new pornographers, kings of leon, arcade fire, air, black keys, black heart procession, k-os, immrotal technique, mf doom, dj shadow, billy brag, blind melon, lcd soundsystem, the unicorns, the stars, Prefuse 73, m83, sufjan stevens, the books, belle and sebastian, the islands, charles mingus, beach boys, dismemberment plan, ELO, eels, menomena, andrew bird, clap your hands say yeah, pinback, four-tet, diagnoh, super furry animals, ween, spoon, all space and underwater rock

Movies: City of God, Darjeeling Limited, Life Aquatic, Rushmore, Royal Tenebaums, Science of Sleep, Waking Life, What the Bleep do We Know, Planet Earth, Lars and the Real Girl, Half Nelson, Sandlot, old Noir films

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have been to Italy, Great Brittain, France, Switzerland, Belguim, Holland, Canada, Mexico, and all over the US. Crazy things I have seen (rather imagined seeing) have been at music festivals. The most courageous thing I've done: recently excepted a job outside Denver, leaving me 1400 miles away from my family and the girl I love.

Teach, Learn, Share

The host/guest relationship has been crucial for society since the dawn of time.Homer's Odyssey is a perfect representation of how we should treat guests. Feed them, let them shower, borrow your clothes, tell stories, and then and only then after all those things you can ask for their name and their origin. I must admit I do usually tend to ask those less important things first but I am working on breaking that habit. We need to trust one another again.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, United States

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