HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Travel around like it was my job and make sure that fellow travelers don't lose their nerve. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I get around a bit. I surfed around parts of the US, hosted a fair amount, though less than I'd like and traveled from ireland to Romania and back using the network. Traveled to Pakistan with one of my favorite people from CS to attempt some wild ish. People are amazing.

Douglas Adams, Terry Tempest Williams, Mark Twight, Henry Rollins, Edward Abbey, Margret Atwood, Sebastian Junger, John Krakauer, Raoul Vaneigem. "I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? ...we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. "- Franz Kafka Movies: O Brother Where Art Thou?, Children of Men (welcome to the future my friends), American Beauty, Men Who Stare at Goats, Naussica of The Vally of the Wind, Gasland, Fight Club, Dead Alive, Evil Dead 1&2, Army of Darkness, Night/Dawn/Day of the Dead, Return of the living dead... see a pattern going on near the end there? Music: Post-Rock (e.g. Godspeed You! Black Emperor), punk rock, hip hop, alt-country