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Overview

  • 33 references 28 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, Spanish
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Music//Clown//Horticulture//Education
  • Experiential
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Homeostasis

ABOUT ME

Life became so much more interesting, challenging and intriguing when I realized it really exists outside of the 9-5 working (wo)man's world.

I adore solitude as much as I love to socialize.... Silence is as golden as my favourite albums.

I am continuously learning and reinventing my understandings of the world and its workings on a daily basis. The attainment of real knowledge and truth are good things, so I love exchanging thoughts and ideas with others and having intense conversations..

I like music

I grew up in the wilderness so nature is my savior and solace. With that said, I have a deep respect for the world and every form of life inhabiting it. I am an animal trying to live in coexistence with every other animal in his habitat of choice.

As much as I admire a good plan, I can't predict the future so I try not to. The greatest adventures are often impulsive. We are all born free.

I'm a papa so you'll have to be ok with kids if you want to crash chez nous.

PHILOSOPHY

I believe in and try to act upon trust, openness, honesty and empathy in every form of interaction. I try to inspire enliven these things those I meet. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Life is a performance and art is therapy :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host surfers when I have space available or I will redirect surfers to my friend's houses when I'm unable to host :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

-Traveling through BC, setting up my hammock, in backyards, sleeping in until the sun shines bright enough to sweat me out of sleep.
-Surfing in Europe, birthday bagpipe parties in the mountains. Brutal mornings. European moonshine is killer. Stay away.

I've been hosting travelers in my loft/room/home with nothing but positive experiences.

Interests

Alternative lifestyles, cultures, history.

Group art projects, improv/contact dance, games, jams.

Camp-fire music. Live music. Electronic music. Music

Meeting people for the first time who I feel like I've known my whole life.

Playing/running/frollicking/climbing/biking/swimming/sleeping.
Outside stuff.
Adventures,
Potlucks, feasts, tasty fooooood.
Good drink

All of it.

Music, Movies, and Books

Minilogue, Tosca, Trentemoller, Bluetech, James Blake, Dub/house/glitch/techno/electronica.
Grizzly Bear, Beirut, Thom Yorke, Bjork, Timber Timbre, Devendra Banhart, Iron & Wine, Thomas Koppel, Yann Tiersen, Kyrie Kristmanson, Madeleine Peyroux, Possessed by Paul James, Manu Delago,Djivan Gasparyan, Django, Jeff Buckley.... Blues, Jazz, Classical, folk, Alt, Bluegrass, RnB.

a lot of awesome underground/local music of course...

Movies:
Kynodontas, Dogville, Eternal Sunshine, Amelie, Les triplettes de Belleville, Spike Jonez, Coen Brothers, Ghibli films. I like most of the foreign films I've seen..
Absurd, dark, cynical, whimsical films...

It's been a while since I've read any good fiction so I'm open to suggestions.. Non fiction is awesome these days. Liberation through information!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My heart is still alive and open!

Teach, Learn, Share

Practice Vipassana, bring an extra pair of shoelaces.

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. " -K. Gibran

Compassion is the greatest teacher.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Germany, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada

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