HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Right now I'm not really hosting, but I have hosted some awesome people and would certainly do it again in the future. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE So Far: • Smoked a hookah with 5 other couchsurfers [Montreal, QC] • Playing Bomberman for hours [Montreal, QC] • Passing out on the rocks of the breakwater watching a lightening storm at 3am. [Nanaimo, BC] • Roadtrip to nowhere and a drive-in restaurant [Vancouver Island, BC] • Random meeting of couchsurfers at a music festival. Hung out and checked out bands. [Malmö, Sweden] • Drinking Buckfast and beer and seeking out the best falafel available at 3am [Malmö, Sweden]

What are my favourite movies, music, and books? That's almost too broad a question. Here is this best response I could muster. ((( Music ))) Jazz - Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Dave Holland, Wes Montgomery, Duke Ellingon, Bill Evans, Pat Metheny, Hiromi Uehara Rock & Pop - Zeppelin, The Tragically Hip, Rush, Sam Roberts,Buffalo Springfield, Pink Floyd, The Guess Who, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, The Beautiful Girls, Slightly Stoopid, Bedouin Soundclash, John Mayer, Alt / Indie - Radiohead, The Shins, The Cat Empire, The Sea & Cake, Broken Social Scene, Fleet Foxes, Mother Mother, Trevor Davies, Yukon Blonde Hip Hop - K-OS, Jurassic 5, Buck 65, Nas, Jay Z, The Fugies, The Roots, Tribe Called Quest, Q-Tip ((( Movies ))) I like cleverly written and original movies. I can dig blockbusters, but not all the time. I like most everything written, directed, or produced by... • Hiyao Miyazaki (Spirited Away), • Guy Richie (Snatch), • Wes Anderson (The Darjeeling Limited), • Steven Soderberg (Oceans 11), • Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation), • The Coen Brothers (Fargo) • Jim Jarmush (Coffee & Cigarettes), • Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight) ((( Books ))) Non-fiction, travel, 19th/20th century classics. I'd recommend the following if you haven't already read them... • Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig) • The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa (Neil Peart) • Hitching Rides With Buddha (Will Ferguson) • Shantaram (Gregory David Roberts) Magazines: The New Yorker, The Walrus, The Economist, Harpers, Utne Reader, Smithsonian Magazine, Esquire, Monocle