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Overview

  • 10 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Korean, Spanish
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • teacher, writer, musician, designer, photog
  • B.A. in Literature, self-taught in many things
  • From Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To create! For creation is play, and play is divine.

ABOUT ME

I practice variations of Chaplin routines in front of small groups of Korean children in order to pay of some student loans,travel, write, write, write, and live!

PHILOSOPHY

Live how you wish, do what you want, and hurt no-one in the process.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As often as I possibly can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Every time has been great.

Interests

People passionate about their own interests. Mine, generally: Literature, Film, Music, Travel, Aesthetics, Absurdity, Laughter, Peacefulness, and the list goes on...

  • literature
  • traveling
  • music
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies by: David Cronenberg, David Lynch, P.T. Anderson, Wes Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jean-Luc Godard, Chan-wook Park, Steven Soderbergh, Gus Van Sant

Books by: Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Hermann Hesse, Clive James, Haruki Murakami, E. E. Cummings, Milan Kundera, Yasunari Kawabata, Vladimir Nabokov, Lao Tsu, Thich Nhat Hanh, Mark Z. Danielewski, Joseph Conrad, Philip K. Dick, Jeff Noon

Music by: Radiohead, Cheer-Accident, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Deerhoof, Lake of Dracula, U.S. Maple, "old delta blues," Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Storm & Stress, GY!BE, Do Make Say Think, BOREDOMS, OLAibi

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have had my future read buy an ascetic somewhere in the mountains who revealed that a girl I once loved would be pivotal in my death.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, Costa Rica, Laos, Mexico, Taiwan, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Korea, United States

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