CURRENT MISSION

To better myself and my art through life experience

ABOUT ME

Hi! My name is Houston, and I'm a poet. No, seriously. It's what I do for a living! ...well, what I'm trying to do for a living, anyway. I travel around competing in Poetry Slams and doing features and workshops. I also play music; I've been playing drums for ten years now, and I'm working on learning guitar (just like everyone else, right?).

I travel often to poetry events across the country; most of the time that's what I use this site for. I also love to put on house shows, so if you're interested, we can make some art happen in your own home. :)

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

Mostly to help travel to new places and spread art!

兴趣

Music, poetry, slam poetry, astronomy, philosophy, religion, atheism, debates, discussion, cooking, meat eating, free love, bdsm, anime, science fiction

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• performing arts
• cooking
• anime
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• drums
• astronomy
• religion
• science

音乐、电影和书籍

Music: Metallica, Tool, Devin Townsend, System of a Down, Flobots, Massive Attack, Chevelle, A Perfect Circle, Blue Man Group, Bowling for Soup, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, The Frail Division, anything by John Williams or Yoko Kanno

Movies: Star Wars, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, This is Spinal Tap, Dr Strangelove, But I'm a Cheerleader!, Saved!, Ghost in the Shell, A Clockwork Orange, Rent, The Producers, Bowling for Columbine, Akira, UHF, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Clerks 2, Back to the Future, Corpse Bride, V for Vendetta, Fight Club, The Punisher

Books: Star Wars series, A Clockwork Orange, The Stranger, Siddhartha, America: The Book, Nothing's Sacred, everything by Isaac Asimov, The Kama Sutra, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Poisonwood Bible, Dante's "Inferno", most of the books that my favorite movies were based off of

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

I reached finals stage at the 2010 Individual World Poetry Slam, and am now ranked as one of the top 12 performance poets in the world.

教，学，和分享

I always love to share my poetry, and I've done a number of poetry and writing workshops, so I'm qualified to help people in that way.