CURRENT MISSION

To kindle the fires of life and imagination.

ABOUT ME

I am a travelling violinist in pursuit of music. I love spontaneous music which brings people out of the mundane and into a excited and creative space. I also enjoy learning about other people's passions and cultures and interests. So I hope to see you out there!

PHILOSOPHY

The time is now.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am a surfer for now, and as such, I strive to be a respectful guest!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couch Surfing is awesome, and I love how people are open to learning about others.

Interests

Music
Conversation
Nature
Travel

Rhyming
Free styling
Back flips
Busking
Laughing
writing
learning languages
history
practicing
meditation
trees
good food

• culture
• writing
• folklore
• dining
• meditation
• traveling
• music
• classical music
• surfing
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, The Mars Volta, FRANK ZAPPA, Pink Floyd, Ravi Shankar, Shpongle, Melt Banana, Ustad Vilayat Khan, Bismella Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Ali Amjad Khan, Zakir Hussain, Shahid Parvez, Nikhil Banerjee, Flogging Molly, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, A Silver Mt. Zion, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Bela Fleck, Paganinni, Infected Mushroom, Porcupine Tree, Gipsy Kings, Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, God of Shamesien, Sigur Ros, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Estradasphere, Tub Ring, Vasen, Jimi Hendrix, Tenacious D, Iron & Wine, Do Make Say Think, Coheed and Cambria, Muse, Dick Dale, Deathcab for Cutie, Animal Collective, The Polyphonic Spree, Clogs, Slint, Talk Talk, Oceansize, Tortoise, Fly Pan Am, M83, Liquid Tension Experiment, L. Shankar, John McLaughlin, Shakti, Portishead, the Flaming Lips, Fred Frith, Henry Cow, My Morning Jacket, Toubab Krewe, Ananda Shankar, Mahavishnu rchestra, John Luc Ponty, and many more.

Movies:
2001: A Space Odyssey, Gandhi, The Shinning, City of God, WAKING LIFE, Spinal Tap, GATTACA, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, Spaceballs, Monty Python Search for the Holy Grail, Eddie Izzard: Dressed to Kill, Back to the Future, Star Wars, the Matrix, Dr. Strangelove, Total Recall, A Better Tomorrow 2, Into the Wild, Yes Man, and many more.

Books:
A Brief History of Everything, A Short History Of Nearly Everything, Guns Germs And Steel, Neuromancer, Zen Questions, The Foundation Trilogy, 1984, God's Debris, A Walk in the Woods, The Alchemist, Understanding Media, The Archaic Revival, Lame Deer

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I lived in Kolkata, India for 4 months with the purpose of learning Indian classical music from a sitar guru. During that time, I learned a deep musical tradition and made such deep friends and experienced such a vast culture that it inspired me to to core. I hope to spread some of that to everyone I meet.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm bound for town
To make my sounds
Which dispel all frowns
When I get down

If you want to hear me
Gettin' down in the town
Makin' a pretty sound
Then gather 'round

I was lost but am found
Walkin' around the funny loud clowns
Makin' funny loud sounds
Wearin' funny loud gowns

If you want to see me
Gettin' down with the clowns
Makin' loud sounds like hounds
Then find me on the town's mound

Stairs are wound around the town's mound
At the top are where the clowns are found
And me gettin' down at the top of the town
Makin' funny loud sounds with the funny loud clowns

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Thailand, United States