CURRENT MISSION

Self-actualization, travel, experience. . .

ABOUT ME

I would describe myself as a student of the world. I enjoy lengthy discussions about anything and everything. I also love to explore and meet new people. I'd like to better know myself and others. I think the better we understand ouselves, the more equipped we will be to try and understand our world and how we can make it better.

PHILOSOPHY

To love, to laugh, to live. . . .to cherish but never hold on too tight.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Just getting started. . .surf's up!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have surfed many a couch.

Interests

I enjoy reading, writing, having a good time and I like to be around interesting, passionate people.

• writing
• reading
• traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

I enjoy reading the works of Jack Kerouac, Thomas Wolfe, Jack London, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Aldous Huxley, Herbert Marcuse, Kurt Vonnegut, Abraham Maslow, Mark Twain, Chuck Palahniuk, William Blake, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Edgar Allen Poe and many others. I don't like to read anything that I can't learn from.

Some of my favorite films are "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", "Children of Men", "The Big Lebowski" and "Waking Life".

Some of my favorite musicians are John Lennon,
Bob Marley, Radiohead, Devendra Banhart, The Mars Volta, Gogol Bordello, Pink Floyd, Modest Mouse, Bob Dylan, Megapuss, Jack Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, Connor Oberst/Bright Eyes, The Felice Brothers, Tom Waits, Stevie Wonder, Adam Green, Little Joy, Tom Petty, Beachwood Sparks, Miles Davis, The Beach Boys, The Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, Sean Lennon, The Doors, Tool and Sam Cooke.

I also have to mention my favorite comedian/philosophers, Bill Hicks and George Carlin.

Teach, Learn, Share

I believe that through clarity, communication, understanding and reconciliation there are no differences among humans that cannot be overcome peacefully.

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