CURRENT MISSION

live, love, eat, drink, revolt, create

ABOUT ME

long hair (1), beard (1), 5 foot 10.5 inches (2)

PHILOSOPHY

That love and mutual aid replace alienation and domination as the basis for society's relationships. We'll get there through a combination of direct action, compassion, education, and lots of tea and baking around kitchen tables.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

nothing yet, but give us time, we're new here!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So many couches, too little time

Interests

travel, hitchiking, bikes, green tea, turkish coffee, letterpress, blacksmithing, music, beer, whiskey, wine, reading, braids, pizza, peanut butter, sushi, hats, anarchy, anarchists, anarchism, libraries, librarians, books, writing, weird fiction, slipstream, kung fu, qigong, xingyiquan, taijiquan

• writing
• books
• education
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• baking
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• music
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: China Mieville, Jeff Vandermeer, Eco, Calvino, Kundera, Borges, Atwood, Kingsolver, Rexroth, Steinbeck, Hermann Hesse - Good Sci-fi/Fantasy, weird fiction, slipstream, speculative, fantastic, or whatever the hell else they're calling it... Nofiction: History (revolts, revolutions, movement towards liberation), anarchism, cookbooks on soups, current events, media, travel....

Movies: Love Song for Bobby Long, Bladerunner, Ghost World, Party Girl, Spirited Away, Before the Rain, Shawshank Redemption

Music: Royal Finger Bowl, Morning 40 Federation, Grayson Capps, The Eyesores, Coltrane, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rollins, Parker, Monk, and all those jazz cats, Townes Van Zant, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Jay Farrar, Cowboy Junkies, Murder by Death, Tarantula A.D., Boredoms, Can, Tom Waits, Greg Brown, Joe Henry, Gomez, Cat Power, Mia Doi Todd, Spearhead, Blackalicious, The Coup, Dead Prez, J-Live, Mos Def, Zion-I, and all kinds of other folk, jazz, hip-hop, rock, etc....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Many, but riding on freight trains has got to be up there.

Teach, Learn, Share

information wants to be free, so whatever we got is yours!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Chile, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Ireland, Mexico, Russian Federation

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States