CURRENT MISSION

Follow the footsteps of Tom Rakewell in William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress, without the syphillis.

ABOUT ME

i'm a historian/beautician/fashion consultant/chemical enthusiast/classically trained pianist/bartender/pirate/"in the movie biz"/token asian kid/football hooligan/eurotrash/writer/hippie/almost-a-canadian/raconteur/disillusioned student.

and goon. LLJK

i speak fluent mandarin and some suzhou hua as i grew up there for part of my life, but really i'm an californian in vermont.

i have a lot of crazy, random, impulsive adventures.

i have a lot of stories. a lot.

ask me a question about anything and you'll get an answer. i swear to god.

PHILOSOPHY

You see that guy next to you, he's a person too, just like you, sorta.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

If you're in China, I'll show you how the upper crust lives. If you're in the US, I'll show you the nooks and crannies.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i spent spring break 2k6 with no money but a car and nowhere to stay and drove around new england. i also regularly couch-crashed in fullerton, ca and montreal, qc.

Hosted Aries416 March 2007 and was awesome :)
Surfed with Faye and Nicolas in Montreal March 2007, totally wicked ^__^

Interests

music, partying, movies, fashion, dutch/british colonial history, germanic history 1200 - 1800, all sorts of fabulousness, surprises

• writing
• fashion
• partying
• movies
• music
• piano
• soccer
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

music: interpol, stars, the libertines, babyshambles, dirty pretty things, david bowie, joy division, along those lines. i'm also an improv pianist and enjoy that sort of thing. i'm also an ex-raver.

movies:
trainspotting, american psycho, pulp fiction, velvet goldmine, girl on the bridge, maelstrom, capote, p.t. anderson, wes anderson, goddard, jeunet, almodovar, stuff like that

books: bret easton ellis, and i really like obscure history books, and i write wikipedia entries.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I used ration tickets and bought milk with punch cards. I've indirectly influenced the final cuts of major Hollywood films. I've taken the train across the country. I've palmed a waiter a 20 to not card a 16 year old at O-Bar in West Hollywood. I freeze my dry jeans. I drove across the country in 48 hours twice (LA - Santa Fe - Chicago - Pittsburgh - Vermont/Vermont - Hartford - Grove City, PA - Tulsa - Santa Fe - LA)

Teach, Learn, Share

European royalty 1200 - 1800, British Far East colonialism 1733 - 1945, The Great Game, living in Communist China in a privileged position, psychopharmacology, Improv Baroque Piano, I know a lot of random stuff.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Japan, Myanmar, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, United States

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