HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING After years of traveling, being shown the most amazing hospitality and kindness at every turn, I am now all set to host in my new, awesome house and give some love back. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Good people, good times, good Karma. Oh, I also hung out with the Couchsurfing team at their house in Berkeley, California. Great people. They throw a kickass sock puppet party.

Partial lists, obviously. Authors - Jorge Luis Borges, Khalil Gibran, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Albert Camus, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Oliver Sacks, Franz Kafka, Hanoch Levin, Wisława Szymborska, Hafiz, Rumi, Carlos Castaneda, Rudolf Steiner, Michael Newton, Eckhart Tolle. Filmmakers - Andrei Tarkovsky, Luis Buñuel, David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Wes Anderson, PT Anderson, Coen Brothers, Darren Aronofsky, Robert Altman, Chan Wook Park, Jan Švankmajer, Stanley Kubrick, Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, Terry Gilliam, Martin Scorsese, Hayao Miyazaki, Jean-Luc Godard, Charlie Kauffman, Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Music - My taste in music has sprawled beyond any attempt of representation. Anything that makes me feel, makes me think, makes me dance or, even better, all three at once.