CURRENT MISSION

Travel. What else?

ABOUT ME

I'm pretty laid back and treasure good conversation and traveler's stories. I like to discuss politics, society, music, (some) sports, and language. I enjoy hosting people who are new to my city and showing them all the cool stuff there is to do here.

PHILOSOPHY

Those who live in the present but harbor no doubts about the structure of authority, those whose anger does not drive them to to delve into the essentials, and those whose approach to their art raises no questions, all these must renounce their status as artists.
-Masayuki Takayangi

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative
-Oscar Wilde

When a true genius appears you will know him by this sign: That all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
-Jonathan Swift

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for men of good conscience to remain silent.
-Thomas Jefferson

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
For certain engineering purposes, it is desirable to have as silent a situation as possible. Such a room is called an anechoic chamber [...] a room without echoes. I entered one at Harvard University several years ago and heard two sounds, one high and one low. When i described them to the engineer in charge, he informed me that the high one was my nervous system in operation, the low one my blood in circulation. Until i die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death.
-John Cage

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting/Traveling

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

No complaints whatsoever! I've met plenty of kind and generous people who have let me into their homes. Best way to see a city!

Interests

non-fiction literature, journalism, history, food and cooking, spirits, wine, beer, big cities, small towns and the forests around them.

Academic interests include bilingualism, language and cognition, language contact, pidgins and creoles, code switching, spatial language and cognition, and heritage language systems

• arts
• literature
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• politics
• traveling
• coding
• music
• sports
• engineering
• history
• journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
"Inherit the Wind"
"The Battle for Algiers"
"Slacker"
"State and Main"
Any film made by Werner Herzog, David Lynch, Woody Allen, Almodóvar, Coppola, Kubrick, or Buñuel. Those 30 for 30 docs are pretty tight. Also, there's nothing like a well-made documentary.

Music:
Sonic Youth
Pavement
Joe Henderson
Yo la Tengo
Big Youth
King Tubby
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Sun Ra
Anthony Braxton
John Zorn
Spring Heel Jack
Fela Anipulako Kuti
Pedestrian Deposit
Matmos
Bastard Noise
Man is the Bastard
Pete Seeger
Woody Guthrie
Alvin Lucier
Pauline Oliveros
Christian Marclay
Pere Ubu
PIL
Phil Niblock
Minutemen
Husker Du
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Atahualpa Yupanqui
Violeta Parra
Victor Jarra
Los Corraleros de Majagual
Los Utrera
Chavela Vargas
cumbia, son jarocho, y toda música folklórica y tradicional de américa latina

Books:
"A Peoples History of the United States" - Zinn
"Homage to Catalonia" - Orwell
"Confederacy of Dunces" - Toole
"Blood of Brothers" - Kinzer
"The Language Instinct" - Pinker
"The Atoms of Language" - Baker

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Ometepe, Nicaragua.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Portugal, Puerto Rico, San Marino, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, Nicaragua, Spain, United States

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