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Overview

  • 13 references 9 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Haitian, Haitian Creole; learning French
  • 40, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Thinker
  • MIT (Theoretical Math)
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

staying one step ahead of the man

ABOUT ME

i like pockets.

PHILOSOPHY

live and let live.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

like a ray of sunshine. warm, black, sunshine.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

seasoned veteran.

Interests

music: soul, rock, blues, jazz, hip hop, post-rock, funk, noise (with melody), electronic (with melody), etc, etc, etc, etc, etc
photography
urban exploration
cooking
encyclopedia articles
funny stories
lots and lots of pockets
grasshoppers

  • photography
  • dancing
  • dining
  • cooking
  • chess
  • music
  • jazz
  • blues
  • urban exploration

Music, Movies, and Books

anything that's good, especially if i haven't seen it before.

tunes: bettye swann, mogwai, billie holiday, do make say think, tortoise, beatles, a tribe called quest, charles mingus, lightnin hopkins, pink floyd, jackie-o motherfucker, curtis mayfield, others and others and others and others.

flicks: scarface, big lebowski, usual suspects, goodfellas, dr strangelove, the graduate

words: things fall apart, godel escher bach, good anthologies of short stories.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

jumped off of a moving bus on a busy street in senegal, ate some serious asphalt and got bloodied up before playing a live version of frogger on my way to the sidewalk. i did not die.

Teach, Learn, Share

teach: cook, roll blunts, hacky sack, speed chess, life.

learn: how to take better photos, how to cook good food from your part of the world, how to speak your language,

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Haiti, Japan, Laos, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Senegal, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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