CURRENT MISSION

"Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves."

ABOUT ME

Young professional with a serious traveling habit and occasional artistic tendencies.

PHILOSOPHY

"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience" - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I used couch surfing a long time ago when traveling around Europe and now that I have my own place, I hope to return the favor and continue to use it when I travel.

Interests

Reading, writing, music, really all art, politics, economics, international affairs, philosophy, meeting new people, seeing new places, and having a good time.

• arts
• writing
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• music
• surfing
• economics

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Books:
The Importance of Being Earnest, The Plague, Ulysses, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Lolita, Waiting for Godot, The Garden of Forking Paths, Guns Germs and Steel, The Stranger, Beyond Good and Evil, Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom Absalom!, East of Eden, Hamlet, Brave New World, King Lear, Macbeth, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Catcher in the Rye, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Sandman, The Invisibles, From Hell, graphic novels from Moore, Morison and Gaiman

Favorite Music:
Andrew Bird, Cat Power, Max Richter, Explosions in the Sky, Okkervil River, Doves, The Decemberists, The Black Keys, Blind Faith, Cake, Beck, Tool, Tribe Called Quest, John Lee Hooker, Blackalicious, Widespread Panic, Toadies, , The Who, The White Stripes, Johnny Cash, The Dead, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Micheal Jackson, Bob Schnieder, Nine Inch Nails, Third Eye Blind, Talking Heads, Daft Punk

Favorite TV Shows:
Mad Men, Lost, Family Guy, Planet Earth, South Park

Favorite Movies:
There Will Be Blood, 8 1/2, Chinatown, Rashomon, No Country for Old Men, The Fountain, Children of Men, LA Confidential, Waking Life, Crash, Traffic, The Prestige, Syriana, Schindler's List, Dazed and Confused, Space Odyssey 2001, Animal House, Terminator 2, Fight Club, Matrix, Zoolander, Anchorman

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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