CURRENT MISSION

Bicycle from Minneapolis, MN to Austin TX before midnight Halloween 2008.

ABOUT ME

I'm a non-smoking 24 year old adventurous red-headed male with a single tattoo, markers in my pocket, and a metal pole in my left leg but you wont notice that.

PHILOSOPHY

Nature is the strongest conveyance of beauty but I do alright.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'll wash the dishes, cook, clean up after myself, leave you a drawing, write you sporadic heartfelt postcards, reaffirm your sense of self-esteem, pull you into conversations, keep you from getting kicked out of the club, trade a book, compliment you on your bedroom posters, charm your parents, boost you over a fence, and tell you that grizzly and polar bears have begun to mate and produce a new species of bear- did you know that?

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I usually sleep on the floor.

Interests

Cycling, stretching, reading, dancing, climbing trees, sleeping under the stars and under bridges, walking through tunnels, breathing steam, swimming, history, exploring, dreaming, bombing, trains, nutrition, affection, breakfast tacos, libraries, coffee, melodies, cartoons, thunderstorms, birthday parties, dawn, waterfalls, yoga, racking gifts for friends, fireworks, girls, rollercoasters, fonts, food dumpsters, creek beds, temperate forests, cats, rooftops, alleys, headphones, and sentance structure.

• cats
• books
• beauty
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• breakfast
• coffee
• yoga
• walking
• partying
• clubbing
• cartoons
• reading
• drawing
• cycling
• rock climbing
• swimming
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Denis Johnson, Bret Easton Ellis, Raymond Carver, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino, Nabokov, Camus, A.R.E. weapons, beck, tom waits, daft punk, mindless self indulgence, AWOL one, fire fight, DMX krew, depeche mode, adult., diplomats, misfits, lost sounds, leonard cohen, queens of the stone age, t-rex, NOFX, high cost of living, iron maiden, MF doom, kool keith, suicide, joy division, cradle of filth, tenacious D, ministry, air, scissor sisters, dexy's midnight runners, beastie boys, sloppy seconds, gary numan, roky erickson, fuckemos, deftones, tv on the radio, dj shadow, wolfgang amadeus mozart, fucking champs, dead kennedys, dust brothers, pixies, U.N.K.L.E., cake, top ramen, guns n roses, nitzer ebb, orchestral movements in the dark, electric light orchestra, ramones, tones on tail, butthole surfers, disco vandals, kid606, sonic youth, flaming lips, johnny cash, talking heads, sisters of mercy, uranium savages, blonde redhead, big black, violent femmes, sebastion tellier, kavinsky, justice, scott walker,A clockwork orange, fight club, brazil, wizards, pet cemetary, the meaning of life, suspiria, old boy, dark city, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, robocop, a nightmare on elm street, the lion king, repo man, evil dead 2, dr.strangelove, the shining, jesus' son, american psycho, the fly, the royal tenenbaums, fantastic planet, the return of the living dead, clue, who framed roger rabbit?, willow, style wars, aliens, edward scissorhands, nightmare before christmas, top secret, the naked gun, metropolis(animated), akira, my neighbor totorro, the fifth element, scrooge, little shop of horrors, leon the professional, requiem for a dream, blade runner, the graduate, city of god, dawn of the dead (not that shitty remake)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

You know that mountain road the Torrence family is driving through during the opening credits of "The Shining"? The "Going To The Sun" road. I've bicycled down that under a full moon, that was pretty good... oh, and i've seen both a dragon and a unicorn, for real.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can handle some minor carpentry, fix a leaky faucet or a meal, and i've painted roughly the surface area of any small town.