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ABOUT ME

Anywhere I go I slouch a little, imperceptibly, like most civilians do. I think people who hold themselves completely upright are enlisted in a military or otherwise ready to kill.

I keep writing content for this profile that I think makes me look like a weirdo because I really can't fathom what it means to be "open-minded" or to "love to travel".

Traveling performs an important function, it re-centers the world for you. In an extreme form, it can be a vain process of disappearing from one place and re-appearing some other place where you are totally unknown, or partially unknowable. You might seem arrogant, stupid, or cool despite yourself and your best, most humble intentions. The type of travel that is motivated by vanity is known as tourism.

I don't love vainglorious tourism, or irresponsible eco-tourism, or monopoly time-share complexes that siphon visitors away from nearby villages and bring poverty to local workers and business owners. And that is part of traveling sometimes, for some folks. So I might only love to travel given certain conditions. And that might make me a little close-minded. I don't know.

I would like for you to disagree with some or all of these statements. Correct me. Correct me gently, or correct me harshly. Just do it comically. Maybe neither of us is ready for enlightenment, but we're sure as hell aching for a decent joke once in a while.

PHILOSOPHY

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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My level of participation is limited. I have been hosted and been host. I generally do not use this site's other social utilities.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My couch surfing experiences have all been positive.

That is one hazard of internal review systems, generally speaking. Your feedback is bound to be overwhelmingly positive. Think about it. Some folks who have had negative experiences with CouchSurfing would probably opt out of the service without public comment.

Oppositely, those who have positive experiences amplify them because by having positive experiences, they themselves become more desirable. Maybe those with neutral experiences tend to rate them as more positive, not only to seem more desirable, but also because they sense that CouchSurfing requires a self-esteem surplus from each user in order to function.

I mean, any hospitality exchange service must generate a collective surplus of self-esteem to fund the community's good-faith exchanges. It would fail otherwise.

But seriously, everyone whom I've met that has even heard of this site has been super cool.

Interests

The word 'interest' comes from two latin root words - 'inter', meaning 'between', and 'essentia', meaning an 'essence'. Getting between essences.\

• writing
• perfumes
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• surfing
• animation
• business
• history
• physics
• tourism
• ecotourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Open 3 links in new tabs. Choose the line of best fit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7gX2J6ghe8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA_xz5is2wU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nWn7rEy5co
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms2klX-puUU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDBq4c9ffF0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHik_HVLiFM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j8nuzCEm1M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZAOOGfRtOA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHMdSXnBkyM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_2C9ziumbc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9M3znlOA90
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RVVFc8TXNI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66wxY8H4Mu0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvuDvhePdHk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr-OgG1A74c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qSION3MWDM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u52Oz-54VYw
http://ebookcollective.tumblr.com/
http://thenewinquiry.com/

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've seen kittens, puppies, and rainbows. Once I saw a sign that said Pegasus Parking Only, and it wasn't a joke. I've known wonderful people who have made adorable baby people. I once watched a hot metal spark fall into my own eyeball. It rusted there over a holiday weekend. I have seen accidental deaths. I have not seen a person kill another person on purpose. What impresses me most is not the delicate, not the cute, the quirky, the rare or the charming. And certainly not a will to violence or to exploit -- but the will to suffer for the sake of a particular, simple change in social norms, business methods, or political relations.

Having stated that, the most amazing things I can think of are things I have only heard of. For example, Victor Jara, 1974; died for his love of democracy in Chile. Kate Richards O'Hare, imprisoned throughout the 1920s in the United States for her beliefs in non-violence and sexual equality. The list continues. It is an ambivalent list, including Malcolm X, N. Mandela, MLK Jr. and so on etc.

Teach, Learn, Share

If you are from the United States, or attend college there, I know some things about the Free Applicaiton for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) process. If you are interested in cross cultural comparisons in terms of intellectual trends and the material conditions in which they evolved, that's cool, we can talk a while about that. I am concerned with labor history, physical to affective. I have amateur interest in ethology, the cuckoo bird is creature that scares me most. It is ruthless.

I have lots of working class experience, some practical knowledge. A pale blue collar. Hours and gigabytes of more-or-less trivial stuff available for random access. Drawing and animation techniques and cartoon physics are all of interest to me. I understand major and minor scales in music as spatial issues; striking a diminished chord is like knocking on someone's front door jamb instead of their front door. I understand certain concepts in physics as basic life metaphors: escape velocity, the coriolis effect, helioseismology. Look it up.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, United States