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Overview

  • 49 references 28 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, Spanish
  • 47, Male
  • Member since 2007
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Meet as many people as possible! See as many places as possible!

ABOUT ME

I'm getting back into Couchsurfing. I was a pretty active member about 4 years ago, but now I have the ability to host again.

PHILOSOPHY

Live life to the fullest.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted around 40 people so far. And I have been hosted probably around 7 or 8 times.

Interests

Music, Travelling, Making New Friends, Scaring the Elderly, Concerts/Shows/Parties, Billiards, Johnny Walker or Jameson on the rocks, Snowboarding, Skydiving, Surfing, Going to the Gym, Bartending, Whitewater Rafting in the Grand Canyon, Loungin, Photography, The Beach (OBX and Jersey), Sports (Red Sox, Phillies, Eagles, The Flyers, and Duke. USA Soccer, and International games are a good time too.) Being a Childish Asshole, DJ'ing, Techno, House, Trance, Drum n Bass, Punk, Reggae, Tackling Refridgerators, Record Shopping, Cigars, Reading, Red Meat (Medium Rare), Bungee Jumping, Golf, Used CD Shopping, Art, Bulldogs or Rotweilers, Computers, Chess.

  • arts
  • photography
  • concerts
  • partying
  • shopping
  • chess
  • reading
  • traveling
  • billiards
  • music
  • whitewater rafting
  • surfing
  • bungee jumping
  • skydiving
  • snowboarding
  • sports
  • soccer
  • golf
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Punk - (Social Distortion/Mike Ness, Bouncing Souls, Face to Face, Bad Religion, Pennywise, Dead Kennedys, NOFX, Rancid, Fugazi, Decendents, Suicide Machines, Down by Law, Bosstones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Reverend Horton Heat, Casualties, Tiger Army, Dropkick Murphys, The Used, Sick of it All, Atreyu, Quicksand, Hot Water Music, Taking Back Sunday, Nekromantix, Yellowcard, Goldfinger, The Transplants, 7 Seconds, Minor Threat, Guttermouth, No Use for a Name, Lagwagon, Hawthorne Heights, Goober Patrol, H2O, Vandals, Rise Against, The Explosion, Madball, Boy Sets Fire, Screeching Weasel, Good Riddance, Bad Brains, Offspring, Propaghandi, Op Ivy, Circle Jerks, Pitchshifter, Sunny Day Real Estate, Rocket from the Crypt, Orange 9mm, Strung Out, Mustard Plug, Mephiskapheles)

Techno - (Liberators, DAVE the Drummer, Marco Bailey, Richie Hawtin, Josh Wink, Oliver Ho, Dylan Drazen, Marco Carola, Rowland the Bastard, Cari Lekebusch, Adam Beyer, Luke Slater, Redhead, Juan Atkins, Lars Klein, Mike Humphries, Ken Ishii, The Punisher)

DnB - (Deiselboy, Ed Rush, Optical, LTJ Bukem, Wildchild, Royce, Concord Dawn, Pendulum, Ian Face, Aphrodite, Freaky Flow and Flipside, Kosheen, Goldie, Jamie Myerson, Reflect, Myster Mason, Roni Size)

House - Because lately ive been really feeling alot of the stuff thats been coming off of the Naked Music label lately like: Blue Six, Miguel Migs, Aquanote, and all the different compilations theyve been puttin out. Also been diggin on the Om label as well, Mark Farina and Kaskade.

Industrial, Trip-Hop, Loungy-Dub stuff, Oldies, Indie, Emo-punk, Blues/Bluegrass/Country, Trance, Funky-Ass Florida Breaks, Reggae, Rockabilly/Psychobilly, Garage, Speed Garage, 80's New Wave and Rock, 70's, Classic Rock, Experimental, Downtempo Hip-Hop, et al.

Movies:
Star Wars, Sin City, Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Farenheit 9/11, Office Space, Dogma, Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, One Crazy Summer, Tommy Boy, Breakfast Club, Goonies, Memphis Belle, Saving Private Ryan, Old School, Better off Dead, Trainspotting, Karate Kid, Half Baked, Ferris Bueller, Swingers, Don't be a Menace to South Central While Drinkin Your Juice in the Hood, Better Living Through Circuitry, Platoon, Red Dawn, Jaws, Caddyshack, PCU, Grosse Point Blank, Spaceballs, Human Traffic, Dumb and Dumber, Porn, Pump Up The Volume, Man on the Moon, E.T., James Bond, and Disney Movies.

Books:
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
Curious George - Margret Rey
Everybody Poops - Taro Gomi
Most Dr. Seuss Books - Dr. Seuss
Heather Has Two Mommies - Lesléa Newman
On The Road, Big Sur, Dharma Bums - Kerouac
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
In Search of Captain Zero, Cosmic Banditos - Weisbecker
Songs of the Doomed, The Rum Diary, Hell's Angels, Kingdom of Fear, Better Than Sex, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Generation of Swine - Hunter Thompson
Women, Factotum - Bukowski
Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Timequake, Hocus Pocus , Galapagos - Vonnegut
Filth, Glue, Porno, Acid House - Irving Welsh
Glamorama, American Psycho, Less Than Zero, The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis
Caught Inside - Daniel Duane
Life of Pi - Martel
Naked Lunch - Burroughs
Tropic of Cancer - Miller
1984 - Orwell
The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage - Coelho
Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
Naked, Holidays on Ice - Sedaris
Invisible Monsters, Lullaby, Choke, Diary, Haunted, Survivor, Stranger Then Fiction - Palahniuk
The Motorcycles Diaries - Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
The Stranger - Camus
Big Wave - Willis
Brave New World - Huxley
The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons - Brown
Currently Reading: - Into The Wild - Krakauer

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I cant begin to list the things Ive seen and done. But Im always up for a new experience!

Teach, Learn, Share

Anything worthwhile is difficult to achieve.

If someone asks you "whats new" and you have nothing new to share, then its time to find something new to do with yourself.

Treat other as you would like to be treated.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Croatia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Puerto Rico, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, United States

Old School Badges

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