COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Mostly dinners, drinks and some sightseeing with couchsurfers while I was living in Cambodia. All lovely encounters. Just moved back to Austin semi-permanently and would love to share my hometown with travelers coming through.

Music: Mumford and Sons, Nickelcreek, Libby Kirkpatrick, Toni Price, Nick Drake, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Flaming Lips, New Pornographers, Iron and Wine, Xavier Rudd, Ruthie Foster, Greencards, and anything new and local that has soul. Fiction: Jitterbug Perfume (anything by Tom Robbins really), Sailing alone around the room, anything by Murakami, Unbearable Lightness of Being, all Mary Oliver, Bel Canto, anything by Julia Alverez. I tend to get obsessed with authors and read everything they write. I don't recommend this, but I can't seem to break the habit. NonFiction: Three Cups of Tea. Mountains Beyond Mountains. The Spirit Catches you and you fall down, Barbara Jordan's Autobiography, Loung Ung's Memoirs of Cambodia, Dogs and Demons. White Man's Burden. Movies: I've haven't been keeping up in the past years, but old favorites are Life is Beautiful, Amelie, Spellbound, Lost in Translation.