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Overview

  • 30 references 23 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Japanese; learning Mongolian
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • English teacher, musician, writer
  • BA in Creative Writing
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To fill empty space

ABOUT ME

I live in the Twilight Zone.

I have a lot of chest hair.

I have a lot of shoulder hair too.

On my toes as well. Sorry.

(My chest hair sheds).

PHILOSOPHY

Happy hard determinist.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Filling empty space

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Never mediocre, often transcendent

Interests

Human connections
Old Japanese pop songs
Osaka art and culture
Ambitious artistic styles
Determinism and free will
Altruism
Pikachu

  • arts
  • culture

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: There Will Be Blood, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Synecdoche New York, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Hausu, Pride and Prejudice (2005), Audition (1999)

Music: Deerhoof, Edan, Lightning Bolt, Boredoms

Books: Joseph Heller, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Peace Corps in Mongolia

Teach, Learn, Share

I can chop wood and start fires.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, South Korea

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Mongolia

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