CURRENT MISSION

Do good things.

ABOUT ME

Present. Ask me and I'll let you know.

PHILOSOPHY

Freely relating contributory diversity.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Been here awhile now.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

More prolific couch surfer in my younger days.

Interests

Aikido, guitar, Buddha dharma, Interdependent Relations, Situationalism (not situationist, but not non-situationist), Physically, Spiritually, and Mentally Healthy Communities, Mahayana and Vajrayana teachings and practice, Animist Beliefs, Communication, Co-Creation, Interconnection, Seeking and Creating Vitality, Wilderness Experience, Cultural Exchange, Good Food...

• dining
• guitar
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Ida, Lungfish, the Pupils, Fela Kuti, Bjork, the Hated, Rites of Spring, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Huun-Huur-Tu, Jigme Drukpa, Jen Wood, Nina Simone, Ravi Shankar, Cindy Kallet, Rain Like the Sound of Trains, Woody Guthrie, Prince, Sevara Nazarkhan, Three Shades of Dirty, Bally Sagoo, Nick Drake, Hedningarna, Dave Brubeck, Toots and the Maytals, Bollywood, Algerian Rai, Anything Yogoman spins, music I relate to on the dance floor, Anything with substance presence and vitality, Definately situational...

Movies: Volver, In The Mood For Love, Children Of Men, Babel, The Science of Sleep, Water, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Dancer In The Dark, Red Beard, Travellers and Magicians, Words of My Perfect Teacher, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Atanarjuat, Amelie, City of Lost Children, Delicatessan, Hero, The Emperor and the Assassin, Gandhi, Brazil, The Meaning of Life, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Dancer Upstairs, The Fog of War, Being John Malcovich, Lost In Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Harold and Maude, The Last Temptation of Christ, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Princess Bride, Office Space, The Cup, All four Indiana Jones, the Matrix Trilogy, All six Star Wars, Time Bandits, I Heart Huckabees, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Lawrence of Arabia, Requiem For A Dream, Monty Python's The Holy Grail, The Life of Brian, Apocalypse Now, Ran, Jacob's Ladder, Blade Runner, Shaolin Soccer, Pi, Himalaya, The Last Emperor, Serenity, Slumdog Millionaire, The Dark Knight, Blindness

Books: Tibetan Book of Living and Dieing, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy and the rest of the "trilogy", Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, Off The Map, A language Older than Words, A River Sutra, The God of Small Things, Skinny Legs and All, Aikido and the Harmony of Nature, Dune, Children of Dune, Dune Messiah, The Alchemist, The Sirens of Titan, Siddhartha, Steppenwolfe, The Tao of Pooh, The Te of Piglet, Wendell Berry, Rumi, Mary Oliver, Gary Snyder, Neruda, Dharma Bums, Holy the Firm, Refuge, The Tao of Politics, Woman and Nature, A Book of Five Rings, Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion, Hello My Name is Chellis &; I'm In Recovery From Western Civilization...

TV: Hard to justify. OK Alright (but don't tell anyone): Firefly, Battlestar Galactica (the new one), Arrested Development, CBC's the National, The Daily Show, Colbert Report.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived for 5.5 months in Bhutan. Lived and worked in various National Parks and Wilderness Areas in the US. Visited Lumbini, Sarnath, and Bodhgaya.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bhutan, Canada, India, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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