CURRENT MISSION

escape and expand

ABOUT ME

currently on a gap year

curly hair and quite a few scars. enjoys writing and reading and thinking and laughing and talking and drinking and so on and so forth. chronic day dreamer with itchy feet and grandiose intentions. soo-to-be philosophy & literature student. currently trying to escape the small town mentality and see as much of the world as i can. everyday i wish i could grow a beard.

PHILOSOPHY

i don't believe in isms, i believe in myself. i'm pretty interested in zen buddhism though

Interests

small garden birds, typewriters, nostalgia for a time before i was born, books, words, paper, art, cameras, learning, records, ukulele, hypothetical politics, philosophy, talking, thinking

• birds
• arts
• writing
• books
• literature
• drinking
• gardening
• politics
• reading
• buddhist

Music, Movies, and Books

cinema: withnail & i, science of sleep, bandé a part, fear & loathing, annie hall

music: islands, dj format, james brown, sugar hill gang, will smith, defiance ohio, velvet underground, funkadelic, animal collective, bob dylan, beirut, the shins, grandmaster flash, rick james

books: hemingway, joyce, kerouac, ginsberg, dylan thomas, perec, gabriel garcia marquez, milan kundera, d h lawrence, thomas hardy, kafka, camus, satre, ts eliot, blake, ted hughes

Teach, Learn, Share

i can teach people how to roll cigarettes and about books and generally useless but interesting things and about zines and maybe how to write but also maybe not and about obscure words that have fallen out of use as well as how to make pancakes

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom