CURRENT MISSION

treating all serious things trivially, and all trivial things seriously

ABOUT ME

i love poetry. t.s. eliot is the god i pray to. epic music is fantastic, as well as books and good humans. people are endlessly fascinating, and wonderful, and i like all the little things we do that are so important to us, like how everyone fills the streets when it's warm, or drinks warm drinks when it's cold. i would like to meet everyone i can, learn everything that has been learned, and see as many things as possible. oh, and tattoos, i have some, and want some more.

i study philosophy and politics, and hope to remain an eternal student, at least in my head. i ride a bike, because they're incredible.

i would like a pig one day, a small one, whom i would walk around a park in a big city and who i could perhaps teach cards to and play with him. and a penguin who maybe i could teach a little French to or something.

PHILOSOPHY

anytime i try to set any philosophy down, i correct it immediately. i tend to be a cynic and a skeptic (i don't believe in god, politics, language, or completion of anything) but only in striving is anything gained, only in the constant search and movement can the whole be imagined and understood (more like felt, or seen). i believe very strongly in the progress (cyclical) of art and music, and their possibility for approaching that which is universal. because art sets down an image (not a pictoral one, necessarily, but a crystallization of many things into one transcendent...ness, like those fleeting memories on a fall day, of events that may never have happened but are locked in a mix of scent and desire), it has the ability to be reinterpreted and understood by the viewer, which increases the dynamism in humans generally. It is necessary to laugh: at oneself, at the world, at failures and successes. what is all the struggle and toil for if one can't look back without laughter rising up in their throat?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

as i am currently rooted, i currently try to host as many people as possible, and cook for them and show them around when i can. i plan on staying on some couches too when i get around to movement again.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted a few surfers, and get more each month!

Interests

poetry, music, discussions, coffee, smoking tobacco, going new places, japanese tattoos, mountains, valleys, being alone, LAUGHTER, bass, Running, Thinking about Gladiators and the middle ages and samurai's and all the things i'll only experience in books and art, and in my head.

• arts
• books
• poetry
• tattoos
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• coffee
• running
• drinking
• politics
• music
• cycling
• hitchhiking
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

four quartets, ee cummings, anything wallace stevens, italo calvino, nietzsche, marx, CAMUS, sartre, baudelaire, homer, ezra pound, omar khayyan, faulkner, DOSTEYEVSKY, yeats, Hesse, Melville, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Charles Altieri, john ashbery, auden, dylan thomas lots, kafka, Borges, William Blake, Pier Paolo Pasolini, zappfe, zizek, poe, baudlaire, rimbaud, mallarme, h.d.

music: gyspy, led zeppelin, dubstep, any of those brainfeeder kids (flying lotus, gaslamp killer, daedelus, etc), anything with lots of bass.

as far as movies go, tarkovsky does it best, and the cartoon alice in wonderland, samurai movies too.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

almost getting struck by lightening,hitchhiking in umbriabeing destroyed by waves in oaxaca.

Teach, Learn, Share

i can teach y'all about: philosophy, poetry, cooking, french, englishi'd like to learn:the accordian, more about everything, especially literary and linguistic. I like to share conversation wine ideas and food. As a hostee I'll always come with wine in tow, and hopefully you'd let me cook some french wine stew, or old world italian pastas, or curries for you.

Countries I’ve Visited

Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bulgaria, France, Germany, Turkey, United States