HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING i'm back in NY, currently looking not to host but to meetup, show some cool locations... etc, etc. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE always wonderful

Movies: Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire, The Royal Tenenbaums, Bildnis Einer Trinkerin, Venus, Matador, a bunch of others... Music: Bon Iver, Phosphorescent, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, the White Stripes, Jeff Buckley, Nick Cave, Kings of Leon, Bjork, Fleet Foxes, NERD, Bon Iver, Sam Cooke, Portishead, Cat Power, Otis Redding, Voxtrot, the National, Johnny Cash, Raconteurs, Elliot Smith, JT, the Smiths, the Clash, VHS or Beta, Sunset Rubdown, Vampire Weekend, Wolf Parade, Violens, Ida Maria, all those cool Brooklyn bands also, classical and opera to make life more dramatic Books: FLANNERY O'CONNOR. Middlesex, the Virgin Suicides, White Teeth, On Beauty, all F.Scott Fitzgerald, Lolita, travel books, Alice in Wonderland, ALL Tennessee Williams, Oscar Wilde, Garicia Lorca, Kurt Vonnegut, the beats, poetry and E.B. White essays