HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Spread the good word, more about the people than the "free lodging thing." Live travel and learn from others. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE In Romania, Bulgaria and London, and with friends who were or since have become couch surfers.

Music: Leningrad, Even Kolvoord, North Mississippi Allstars ~Hill Country Revue~, Ada Milea, The Dolly Ranchers, The Dixie Hustlers, Rilo Kiley, Elliott Smith, Badly Drawn Boy, Built To Spill, 5'Nizza, Death Cab For Cutie(pre Transatlanticism), The Postal Service(for the natalga of it now), All Time Quarterback, IEquiring Minds, G. Love & Special Sauce, The Stay Lows, Janis Joplin, Julie Ruin, Julie Holland, Cat Power, Le Tigre, Ani DiFranco, Metric, Palomar, Blue Oyster Cult (no I'm not ashamed of it), Molotov Cocktails Inc, Bela Fleck, Yann Tiersen, Cake (the early albums), Mountain, Erin McKeown, Magnetic Fields, Broken Social Scene, The Slip, The Velcro Stars, Enon, The Hiptones, Superchunk, Super Furry Animals, The Unicorns, Robert Johnson (and the blues of ol'), And of coures Nina Simone. Oh there are so many others... Movies: Wes Anderson Movies, Quentin Terentino Movies (Jackie Brown), Coen Brother Movies (The Big Labowski!) Lonesome Dove, Lost In Translation, Sur le Trace d'Igor Rezi, Buffalo '66... Books: Kert Vonagut, Ernest Hemingway, Hunter S. Thompson, 'Motherless Brooklyn', 'Lonesome Dove', 'Catch 22', 'Confederacy of Dunces'...