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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Melville's NEW EP ''ERSTWHILE" www.myspace.com/melvilletheband
ABOUT ME
just moved to portland after 7 or so years in europe (berlin, paris, lyon, n.ireland, etc). hoping to make something of myself in the music industry with well-written songs and quality live performances. more on that later....
PHILOSOPHY
la fin determine les moyens- Albert Camus
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools" - Hemingway
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
i'm a complete greenhorn.
Interests
stuff. languages, french lit, music, and recently, LOTS of tv watched via the internet (the daily show,entourage, californication, etc, etc)
- tv
- music
- languages
Music, Movies, and Books
the life aquatic w/steve zissous is my favorite movie, along w/high fidelity, spinal tap and other christopher guest films, le grand detournement, will ferrell makes me laugh in just about everything and lots of others.
books: here's where for some it may get pretentious... mainly french literature, i'll just give names, Proust, Houellebecq, Beigbeder, Gide, Maupassant, Camus, Sartre, though also, joyce, melville, philosophy etc, etc
Music: lots. ryan adams, radiohead, interpol, neil young, elliot smith, fleet foxes, nick drake, tim buckley, jeff buckley, pavement (including all things stephen malkmus), the avett brothers, the black keys, weezer's first two albums, beck, arcade fire, bob dylan, andrew bird, owen, pedro the lion, sigur ros, spoon, stevie wonder, wilco, whiskeytown, sufjan stevens,band of horses,counting crows, cat stevens,hank williams, the dodos, john denver, rufus wainwright, queen, john vanderslice, do you REALLY want to know more?? i doubt it
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
nothing specific is coming.... maybe the birth of my son...oh wait... i don't have a son, so that's out... yeah, i don't know. i've traveled a lot and lived abroad quite a bit... that's been good.
Teach, Learn, Share
indeed
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Vatican City State
Countries I’ve Lived In
France, Germany, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States