COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE *2008* 20/sep - cs photography meeting! [madrid, spain] 25/sep - cs exploration outing! [sintra, portugal] 01/oct - hosted at shoji's [kyoto, japan] 24/apr - hosted at franco's [mexico city, mexico] *2009* ##/### - cs ape caves outing! [seattle, wa, usa] ##/### - hosted at katlyn's [washington, dc, usa] ##/### - hosted at darryl's [new orleans, la, usa] *2010* finally in a position to host, and we've been hosting a bunch. no time to update. *2011* cross-country road-trip surfing. *2012* haven't traveled or hosted this year unfortunately. blah blah, sorry, stopped updating.

MUSIC: my musical and in-person loves, GARDENS & VILLA and SWAHILI -- then old-school r&b and soul -- then everyone else that is ever-changing... beach house, neon blonde, la dispute, duchess says, brand new, sechskies, hail social, nurses, the beatles, royal canoe... these are only the constants because they have lasting emotional and nostalgic pull, but i'm kind of all over the place considering i probably listen to 10,000 songs a week via the magazine. regardless -- there's nothing better to me than live electronic music (drum n' bass and funky house especially), and cleverly-written and innovative pop music. MOVIES: eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the fountain, magnolia, tree of life, the fall, the edukators, den brysomme mannen (the bothersome man), tout es parfait (everything is fine), delicatessen, a single man, fight club, 12 monkeys, diving belle... primarily stuff with great visuals (in the trippy sense), black comedies, and foreign films. BOOKS: aldous huxley, vladimir nabokov, hermann hesse, haruki murakami, george orwell, henry miller, sociology textbooks, metaphysical and occultist literature.