Love to meet people, share stories, and connect. Also helps with traveling on a budget!

Books: Ulysses, As I Lay Dying, The Road, Siddartha, Knockemstiff, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, anything by Nabokov, post-colonial literature Movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Road, Biutiful, Dead Man, Coen Brothers Movies, The Darjeeling Limited, I Heart Huckabees, Shortbus, Amelie, Persepolis, Mammoth, Run Lola Run, Angels in Fast Motion, Trainspotting. Mumblecore movies, gritty movies. Music: WMBR (especially The Intercontinental and The Show Show with MaGoGo), WERS, WZBC The Black Keys, Neutral Milk Hotel, Arcade Fire, Interpol, Santigold, MIA, Gorrillaz, Menomena, Band of Skulls, Beck, Tom Waitts, Emiliana Torrini, Beruit, Manu Chao, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, John Scofield, MMW, Miles Davis, Grant Green, Charlie Hunter, Yeah Yeah Yeahs (esp newest album), Fleet Foxes, Kings of Leon, Kings of Convenience, The Kinks, Velvet Underground, Florence and the Machine, Color and Talea, Grizzly Bear, Dead Western, Radiohead, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Galactic, Broken Bells, The National, The Doves, Do Make Say Think.