CURRENT MISSION

The American experiment

ABOUT ME

Grew up in Austin, Texas.

PHILOSOPHY

"But, perhaps, to be true philosophers, we mortals should not be conscious of so living or so striving. So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have 'broken his digester.' "

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

"It may also have been that I wanted to taste of this world, to feel it, suffer it, know it, to love it, to make a valuable contribution to it, and to have that sublime mood of eternity in me as I live the life to come."

Interests

Literature, motorcycles, machines, variety, chess, very good movies, very bad movies, russia

Music, Movies, and Books

Ludmila's Broken English - Pierre, The Famished Road - Okri, Moby Dick - Melville, No Country for Old men - McCarthy, Brazil - Gilliam, Blade Runner - Scott, Demian - Hesse, On The Road - Kerouac. The Tsar of Love and Techno - Marra, Three Moments of an Explosion - Mieville, Midnights Children - Rushdie, Pale Blue Dot - Sagan, The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky, Heart of Darkness - Conrad, Take it Back - Gray Matter, Discovery - Daft Punk, Guitars and Cadillacs - Jennings, And Then You Shoot Your Cousin - The Roots, Aman Iman - Tinariwen, The Monitor - Titus Androndicus. Made in the Dark - Hot Chip,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

What is amazing in the information age?

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you to ride my motorcycle. You wont be the first to crash it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, France, French Polynesia, Gambia, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Peru, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Thailand, Togo, United Kingdom, Vanuatu, Viet Nam, Zambia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, New Zealand, Russian Federation, Senegal, South Africa, United States