ABOUT ME

"All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood." -Rilke-

PHILOSOPHY

"When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide,
and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured
with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars." -Whitman

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I try and provide people with a great place to stay and enjoy crashing on other's couches when I'm traveling to a new environmental gig.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couchsurfed in Boulder, CO and Kansas City, KS. Both experiences were wonderful. I've also hosted a fair amount of couchsurfers in the past, all of which were positive experiences.

Interests

My interests lie predominantly outside the topical.

• beer
• gardening
• flowers
• traveling
• bouldering
• astronomy

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
The Clash, The Silver Jews, Pavement, The Pixies, My Morning Jacket, Smog, Tame Impala, Johnny Cash, Mac DeMarco, The War on Drugs, Kurt Vile, The Beatles, Miles Davis, Tom Waits, Otis Redding, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, Frank Zappa, Phoenix, The Rolling Stones, The Non-Commissioned Officers, Ween, Sigur Ros, Spoon, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Beirut, Sam Cooke, Muddy Waters, Jeff Buckley, Camper Van Beethoven, Elliott Smith, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, Wilco, Ennio Morricone, John Coltrane, Modest Mouse, The Strokes, Immortal Technique, Maurice Ravel, Leos Janecek, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, GRUM, Animal Collective, and many more.

Books:
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lolita, The Master and Margarita, Speak Memory, Letters to a Young Poet, Last Evenings on Earth, Duino Elegies, The Forging of a Rebel, The Great Fires, Robert Walser's Selected Short Stories, Czeslaw Milosv Selected Poems, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Trial, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Slaughterhouse-Five, Switch Bitch, Lotr, Falling Up, Player Piano, Homage to Catalonia, The End of Poverty, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, The Mountains of California, Refusing Heaven, and more.

Movies:
The Life Aquatic, The Big Lebowski, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rushmore, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Children of Men, Manufactured Landscapes, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Kicking and Screaming, Once Upon a Time in the West, Amelie, Enter the Dragon, Miller's Crossing, Science of Sleep, Lost in Translation, Army of Darkness, Big Trouble in Little China, and more.

TV:
The Wire, Breaking Bad, Arrested Development, True Detective, The Returned, Terriers, House of Cards, West Wing, Party Down, Freaks and Geeks, Archer, The Venture Bros, Ren and Stimpy, and more.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One time I had to mace a black bear in the face. It worked.

Teach, Learn, Share

“You Learn”

After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,

And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning
And company doesn’t mean security.

And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
And presents aren’t promises,

And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,

And you learn to build all your roads on today
Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans
And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.

After a while you learn…
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.

So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

And you learn that you really can endure…

That you really are strong

And you really do have worth…

And you learn and learn…

With every good-bye you learn.” -Borges

What I Can Share with Hosts

Beer.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, United States

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