CURRENT MISSION

touring Europe and working on songs for the second waywardbreed album

ABOUT ME

I'm a writer, musician, former bookseller and artist. I love reading, watching films, listening to and talking incessantly about music of many kinds. I'm always looking for something below the surface of things. I like talking, but enjoy silence too. I'm happy in the company of people, and like my own company.

PHILOSOPHY

Sometimes you have to look for what's important; sometimes it is right in front of you.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm new, so I'm not sure yet. I would love to help though.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet...

Interests

see about me...also cooking, going to galleries, riding bicycles through the streets of flat cities, singing, playing my guitar, wearing cowboy boots, learning new languages (need help), talking over a beer, talking over a coffee, being silent over a coffee, coffee...

• writing
• singing
• concerts
• cooking
• beer
• coffee
• movies
• reading
• music
• guitar
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Brothers, Bonnie ´Prince´ Billy, Palace Brothers, Captain Beefheart, Led Zeppelin, Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen, Joanna Newsom, Cat Power, Smog, Wilco, Neko Case, Scott Walker, Townes Van Zandt, Calexico, Gene Clark, Charley Patton, John Fahey, Jim O'Rourke, Slint, Godspeed..., Tortoise, David Bowie, Fred Neil, Bjork, Midlake, Serge Gainsbourg (particularly Histoire de Melody Nelson), Bad Seeds, Dirty Three, Hem, The Arcade Fire, M. Ward, Sparklehorse, Television, Modern Lovers, Captain Beefheart, Richard Buckner, Low, My Morning Jacket, Arvo Pärt, Henryk Górecki...

Books - Raymond Carver (his short story 'Cathedral' is up there with the best), Richard Ford, Book of Daniel (E.L. Doctorow), Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer), Flannery O'Connor, Kurt Vonnegut, Fugitive Pieces (Anne Michaels), Arctic Dreams (Barry Lopez),Ghostwritten (David Mitchell), Under The Banner of Heaven (John Krakauer),Chris Offutt (part. Out of the Woods, Kentucky Straight, Same River Twice and No Heroes), Breece DJ Pancake, So Long, See You Tomorrow (William Maxwell), The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov), James Ellroy, Raymond Chandler, Paul Auster, Austerlitz, The Emigrants and Vertigo (W.G. Sebald),In Cold Blood (Capote), Cormac McCarthy (All The Pretty Horses, The Road, No Country for Old Men)

Films - There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, Night of the Hunter, Dead Man, American Splendor, Coen Brothers' stuff, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, John Cassavetes, Sweet Smell of Success, The Big Sleep, Capote, Jarhead, Brokeback Mountain, The Ice Storm, The Station Agent, You Can Count on Me, Thin Red Line, The Killing, Sunset Boulevard, Adam's Rib, The Women, All The President's Men, Dog Day Afternoon, The Godfather I and II, Godard, Truffaut, Antonioni, Bresson, De Sica, Fellini etc etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Saw Tom Waits live in concert in Prague.

Teach, Learn, Share

Playing guitar.

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Germany

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany

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