CURRENT MISSION

travel to canadian cities

ABOUT ME

just another mangy human, really...

I am passionate about music, chilling out, fixing bikes, sharp knives, re-building antique chairs, tree houses, trapeze, puppets, growing things, stretching, orange squash and fresh greens, swimming, all of my wonderful friends.

PHILOSOPHY

keep it simple, keep laughing, loving kindness

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

i have taken in some cs ers. i travel. i stay open. i have this profile here...once i organized a meeting detroit. that was interesting.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

This website is sooo awesome, it blows me away every time, so I am happy to have discovered it. i have couch surfed all over the world, and have lived it as a lifestyle for over 10 years, so I have lots of travelling tales.

Interests

Music is salvation. I am interested in human rights and the ways we can reduce our footprint on the planet.

• human rights
• traveling
• music
• whitewater rafting
• racquetball
• swimming
• tourism
• squash

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: boards of canada, beck, daniel lanois, do make say think, aphex twin, julie dorion, the hidden cameras, music from madagascar, mogwai, modest mouse, sigur ros, rokysopp, slipknot, magnetic fields, stars(electronica), chinese stars (metal), Jordi Rosen, xiu xiu, tom waits, emily haines, metric, zoe keeting, joni mitchell, neil young, john leloup, black sabath, clap your hands say yah, sufjan stevens, bright eyes, janis joplin, eddie veder, unicorns, buttless chaps, snailhouse, korn, slayer, sun ra, stevie wonder, ray charles, the byrds

books: frankenstein, geek love

movies/anamation: the colours of paradise, edward scissor hands, salad fingers, y tu mama también, home movies by brendan small, a time for drunken horses, waking life, wings of desire, the dreamlife of angels, surfing the waste, go to hell, Yum Me ha ha ha

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i almost drowned in the red river while training as a whitewater rafting guide.
it was wild--

Teach, Learn, Share

making crepes, and eating them with real maple syrup

Countries I’ve Visited

China, France, Ireland, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, China, New Zealand, United States

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