CURRENT MISSION

ride the wave

ABOUT ME

I'm teaching at a high school after recently finishing an MA in philosophy from Sofia U. (Bulgaria) and teaching a year at a language institute in Taiwan.
I am from North Carolina and started travelling when I was 17 and went to Argentina as an exchange student. Since then I have learned so much from talking with people from everywhere.
I have below-average memory and eyesight.
I think the modern world is mad and makes people crazy. I feel less and less crazy but maybe that's just because I'm older and more used to my madness, or tired. I have been liberal, communist, anarchist, Christian, and libertarian, and am still some combination of these things. I am not so interested in ideologies though anymore and am more interested in logic and spirit and moments. I haven't played as much hacky sack of late as I would like, or cycled, or hiked in the forest. I can be quite lazy and prone to routine and have to make an effort to break it.
I studied literature and used to read novels mostly, but became interested in philosophy, particularly continental/marxist, and surrealism, and then when I was in Bulgaria I had lots of free time and started reading a lot about deep politics and alchemical matters on the internet, which has been fascinating.
I was a radio DJ for awhile at my university station and I was fairly obsessed with music and of course I still like it though I don't pay so much attention to what comes out anymore.
I like: oolong tea, Mediterranean sea, wine, thrift store fashion, inexplicable excess, greenery, gracefulness in the mundane, alchemy of the spirit

PHILOSOPHY

"You got to get into it to get intuitive."
"Les non-dupes errent"

I think it's important to be grateful for what I have and try to make the most of the moments we're blessed with. It took me a long time to simplify and minimise. I think that it is an art to appreciate and learn from others, natural, perhaps, but nature can be subverted by culture.

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

surfing, hosting

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Sometimes curious people appear on my doorstep. Sometimes I curiously appear on someone's doorstep. or we meet at the train station.
I was living in places where no one came but then finally I had more guests in Blagoevgrad. Great couchsurf trip for ten days in southern France a few winters ago.

Interessen

swimming, walking/hiking, meditation, cooking, chess, cycling, film, literature, travel, philosophy, dancing, popular music, cultural studies, tai chi, permaculture

• arts
• culture
• literature
• fashion
• dancing
• cooking
• wine
• yoga
• meditation
• walking
• thrifting
• politics
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• swimming
• cultural studies
• logic
• volunteering

Musik, Filme und Bücher

music: Apples In Stereo, Jorge Ben, El-P, Fiona Apple, Takako Minekawa, Redonditos, Ojos de brujo, Radiohead, Julia Holter, Sufjan Stevens, Menomena, Immortal Technique, Novos Baianos, Led Zeppelin, The Cure, Stan Getz, Miles Davis, Blackalicious/Gift of Gab, The Knife, Sleigh Bells, MIA, Smashing Pumpkins, Blind Melon, Camille, Grimes, Hadouk Trio
movies: Dead Man, Big Fish, 25th hour, La vie rêvée des anges, Mulholland Drive, Il Mostro, Bourne movies, Now You See Me, Damsels In Distress, Swept Away, Itś All About Love, May 9th, Stop Making Sense, Átame, L'avventura, The Professional, The Taste of Tea, In Time, Novo, Naissance des pieuvres, Funky Forest, Cary Grant movies, Hilary Duff movies, Eric Rohmer movies, Godard movies, Hana and Alice, My Fair Lady, Conte de printemps, Inherent Vice
tv: Star Trek TNG, Kimi Wa Petto, soccer, football, Robot Chicken, Samurai Champloo, FLCL, Southpark
books/authors: Murakami, Sabato, Bioy Casares, Yoshimoto, Calvino, Yourcenar, Zizek, Mishima, CS Lewis, Hrabal, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Badiou, "Stones of Summer", "Confederacy of Dunces", "Dark Alliance", "Behold a Pale Horse", "The Mind Parasites", Bataille, Breton, "The New Underworld Order", "The Law of One", Nietzsche, Joseph P Farrell, Mutis, DeLillo, "Bleeding Edge"
sites: libcom, globalresearch, veteranstoday, sott, rt

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

blue skies, blue sea, mountain forest, snowfall, summer rainstorm, conversations...

Lehren, lernen, teilen

I want to learn to ride a motorbike, tai chi, yoga, carpentry, permaculture.

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

Argentina, Bulgaria, Germany, India, South Korea, Taiwan, United States