***PLEASE READ MY COUCH DESCRIPTION BEFORE SENDING ME A REQUEST -- I HAVE MY OWN REQUESTS FOR GUESTS!!***

CURRENT MISSION

To support truth-telling in all its voices, shapes, and colors, and to support vulnerable communities neglected or under attack by the environmentally destructive, white supremacist, proto-fascist, vulture capitalist powers that be.
I am just returning to the US from Puerto Rico now, where I was supporting this organization providing community-based healing therapies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMKkeobv-_E

ABOUT ME

I don't really consider anywhere home -- yet. There are too many places I have left to see to be able to say I'm comfortable living in one place the rest of my existence. I'm living in Portland, which is very chill. I run a videography business, and I'm working on a documentary about networks of solidarity in the face of crisis.

No puedo considerar ningun parte hogar -- ya no. Hay bastantes sitios que no he visto para decirme que soy cómodo viviendo en un lugar por todo mi existencia.
Vivo en Portland ahora, que es muy tranquilo. Manejo una empresa de video, y también estoy trabajando en un documental sobre el redes de solidaridad en frente de crisis.

PHILOSOPHY

I refuse to accept that people are evil and the world is doomed. I can't work for a company or organization that I don't believe in anymore. I am ashamed of my country but all hope is not lost. People before profit$ always.

No creo que personas son malas y el mundo está condenado. Ya no puedo trabajar en una empresa o organización que no creo en su misión. Tengo vergüenza de mi pais pero no toda esperanza se pierde. Personas en vez de beneficio$ siempre.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Meeting complete strangers who have a lot to teach me about their cultures and politics, and how they seek happiness.

Conocer a desconocidos quienes tienen mucho para enseñarme sobre sus culturas y polí­ticas, y como se buscan la felicidad.

Conhecendo a estrangeiros quem tem muito para ensinar-me sobre suas culturas e politicas, e como pesquisam felicidade.

Interests

Film, music, collectives, voluntarism, anti-capital, self-employment, worker self-management, environmentalism, humanism

Filmes, música, colectivas, voluntarismo, anti-capital, emplear/empregar a su mismo/você mesmo, autogestion, ambientalismo, humanismo

• documentaries
• film making
• politics
• music
• guitar
• film
• collaboration

Music, Movies, and Books

Last book: Dark Money
Last concert: Dakhabrakha
Last movie in the theatre: The Big Lebowski
Last video: Citizen Koch
Last play: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam, Wes Anderson, Spike Lee, Francis Ford Coppola, Errol Morris, Werner Herzog, Coen Brothers, Michel Gondry, Fernando Meirelles, Walter Salles, Terrence Malick, Alejandro Iñarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Tony Kaye, Woody Allen

Writers: Antonio Negri, Naomi Klein, William Faulkner, Allen Ginsberg, Jorge Luis Borges

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've been in three hurricanes, but more amazing was taking part in the cleanup and witnessing the rebirth of New Orleans after Katrina, and the recovery of Puerto Rico and my hometown of Houston.

Teach, Learn, Share

I have been learning about how to raise goats and chickens, and can teach what I know so far. I also teach guitar, English, and ping-pong. I want to learn Thai, Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Guarani and Quechua, and learn the clarinet, accordian, theramin and saw. I can share footage from beautiful and endangered places, and communities in flux.

He estado aprendiendo como criar cabras y gallinas, y puedo enseñar lo que ya sé. También enseño la guitarra, inglés, y tenis de la mesa. Quiero aprender hablar el tailandes, el chines, el vietnames, el arabe, el guarani y la quechua, y tocar el clarinete, el acordeón, el theremín y el serrucho musical. Puedo compartir mis filmaciones de lugares hermosas y en peligro, y comunidades fluidos.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Luxembourg, Nicaragua, Peru, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

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