CURRENT MISSION

I'm DEFINITELY going on a 'Round The World' Trip for the entire year of 2010.

ABOUT ME

I'm one of a kind, but I don't think thats a very good poker hand.

PHILOSOPHY

Laugh. About Everything.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've surfed a few couches in my day and hosted a few surfers...and its been nothing but good experiences.

Interests

Whatever my obsession of the moment is. Literature. Art. Film. Music. Laughter, and lots of it. Traveling. Paris in the 1920s. New York before Guiliani turned it into Disneyland. Obscure literary and historical figures from across the ages. Writing encyclopedic novels. Wikipedia. Google Reader. Trivia. Mad Libs. Conspiracy Theories. Dancing. Scrabble. Libraries - especially Bobst and Butler. Balderdash. Chipotle. Making up terrible Jane Fonda jokes. Insomnia. Ultimate Frisbee. Anything that doesn't involve boredom.

• arts
• writing
• literature
• dancing
• trivia
• traveling
• poker
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

I have thousands of CDs and LPs. I love all music, some of my favorites include Prince, Bjork, Beck, Morrissey/The Smiths, Sly & The Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Daft Punk, Parliament/Funkadelic, Michael Jackson, Oingo Boingo, Madonna, The Beatles, Count Bass D, Elton John, 33Hz, Self, David Bowie, The Kinks, Johnny Cash, Nine Inch Nails, Panther, DJ Shadow, Cody ChesnuTT, Outkast/Andre 3000, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Justice, Neil Young, The Avalanches, Radiohead, Ani Difranco, Cassius, The Doors, The Lisps, The Roots, Tori Amos, Pink Floyd, Cornershop, The Beach Boys, Flight Of The Conchords, Basement Jaxx, The Clash, Of Montreal, Kate Bush and all Motown artists.

My favorite films include Magnolia, It's A Wonderful Life, CQ, Forbidden Zone, Purple Rain, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, Zoolander, Alice In Wonderland, Freaks, Eyes Wide Shut, Un Chien Andalou, Blazing Saddles, I Heart Huckabees, Amelie, Plan 9 From Outerspace, Jackie Brown, Death To Smoochie, Dumb And Dumber, Fools Rush In and Edward Scissorhands.

As for authors, I love James Joyce, Conrad Aiken, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Queneau, Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, E.E. Cummings, Ezra Pound, John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Witold Gombrowicz, David Markson, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, H.L. Mencken, W.B. Yeats, Georges Bataille, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Nikolai Gogol, Julio Cortazar, Franz Kafka, Arthur Cravan, Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, Edgar Allan Poe, Italo Calvino, Oscar Wilde, T.S. Eliot, Salvador Dali, Djuna Barnes, Walter Abish, Kobo Abe, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Lord Byron, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, J.D. Salinger, Dante, Mina Loy, Scofield Thayer, William Carlos Williams, Marcel Proust, Edouard Dujardin, Mary Butts, Remy de Gourmont, Karl Van Vechten, Andre Gide, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Katherine Mansfield, Italo Svevo, Gertrude Stein, David Garnett, Lytton Strachey, Luigi Pirandello, Eugene Ionesco, Fernando Pessoa, William H. Gass etc. etc. etc. SORRY for such a long list, but I was an English Major so you gotta expect that.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went on a 3 month roadtrip through all the 48 continental United States with my friend. We couchsurfed a little bit, but mostly we manned up and just slept in the back of my gutted van.

Besides seeing all the famous tourist must-sees (like Mt. Rushmore, Niagara Falls, and the Alamo) and the classic roadside attractions (like the biggest ball of twine and the world's largest easel), my proudest moment was going miniature golfing in a funeral home outside of Chicago. Yeah, you read that right: MINI GOLFING in a FUNERAL HOME...and it was FREEEE!!! I know, right, CRAZY!!!??!?!

Teach, Learn, Share

I've been told I have a VERY strange "knowledge set."

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, United States

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