CURRENT MISSION

love my friends and live peacefully in every step

ABOUT ME

Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio; sed fieri sentio et excucior. (Catullus 85) People are always getting ready for tomorrow. I don't believe in that. Tomorrow isn't getting ready for them. It doesn't even know they are there.

PHILOSOPHY

Om Mani Padme Hum.

I live for Peace, Love, and Happiness.

Life is Good.

"Take care, be happy, and do what's right"
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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

my place is ALWAYS open for traveling friends, well not always, but mostly. i like to have fun and laugh.

be good to yourself. and one another.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

CoachSurfing is going to change the world. I believe that.

Interests

triathlons (red hills), half marathons, swimming, running, cycling, canoing, live performances: concerts, plays, symphonies, etc., reading, learning new things, cooking, traveling (anywhere), feel good music, people watching, big cities: san francisco, new york, & tokyo are my favorites, words, boats, fixed gear bicycles, skydiving
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• concerts
• cooking
• marathon
• running
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• skydiving
• swimming
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies and Shows: chaplin: (modern times)-(the kid)-(the rink), Im Juli, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain / Amelie, Le Battement D'Aile du Papillon / The Beating of the Butterfly's Wings, the postman, chocolat, singin' in the rain, chicago, amadeus, wedding crashers, van wilder, anchorman, garden state, american splender, Trois Couleurs: Bleu, fight club, À la Folie... Pas du Tout / He loves me He loves me Not, cruel intentions, amistad, great expectations, fiddler on the roof, love story, life is beautiful, american beauty, Dieu Est Grand Je Suis Toute Petite / God is Great and I'm Not, annie hall, benny & joon, a beautiful mind, Ladri di biciclette / Bicycle Thieves, la dolce vita / The Sweet Life, the gold rush (charlie chaplin), i heart huckabees, i am sam, the boondock saints, city of angels, Cidade de Deus / City of God, crouching tiger hidden dragon, Diarios de motocicleta / The Motorcycle Diaries, DE-LOVELY, dirty pretty things, happy endings, house of the flying daggers, JUNEBUG, Jeux D'Enfants / Love Me if You Dare, napoleon dynamite, a passage to india, RENT, better off dead, broken english --------------------------------------------------
Music: mason jennings, ben harper, bob dylan, jack johnson, bright eyes, bob marley, the sarah mac band, the be good tanyas, jolie holland, sufjan stevens, ray lamontagne, jason mraz, pixies, rilo kiley, hot hot heat, yeah yeah yeahs, brett dennen, the cure, donavon frankenreiter, built to spill, broken spindels, g love, ryan adams, amos lee, the beautiful girls, taj mahal, pete yorn, franz ferdinand, the fray, john legend, jay-z, taking back sunday, elliott smith, ben folds, damien rice ---------------------------------------------------
Books: A Walk in the Woods (Bryson), I'm a Stranger Here Myself (Bryson), Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 1984 (Orwell), Lolita (Nabokov), Pale Fire (Nabokov), Atlas Shrugged (Rand), The Bible (dozen dudes), Leaves of Grass (Whitman), A Short History of Time (Hawkings), The World is Flat (Friedman), poetry from Millay, Whitman, Plath, Neruda

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i used to be a mechanic in the united states air force and worked on some of the largest jets in the world; right now, i'm training for a marathon; i bought a guitar. i can't play anything on it, but maybe one day.

Teach, Learn, Share

"I am a part of everyone I have met"

(Lord Alfred Tennyson)

Countries I’ve Visited

Italy, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, United States

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