HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Spreading the good news of CS. I also finally have a place suitable for hosting, so I'm looking forward to paying back into the community. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Rode bikes through downtown LA with Alex, hiked around waterfalls with some great friends in Portland, and experienced probably the greatest weather of my life in Seattle.

Movies: Rushmore, City of Lost Children, Amelie, Rosemary's Baby, My Life as A Dog, City of God, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, American Beauty -- Bergman, Kubrick, Fellini, Coen Brothers, P.T. Anderson, ya know, all those poly-math story-tellers. Music: Dilute, Sigur Ros, Crooked Fingers, Don Caballero, Modest Mouse, Broken Social Scene, Built to Spill, Radar Brothers, Explosions in The Sky, Mogwai, Andrew Bird, Sufjan Stevens, Sonny Rollins, Ella Fitzgerald. Authors: Alan Watts, Robert Bly, James Joyce, Joseph Campbell, Richard Dawkins, g[o]d, Plato, Rousseau, Bacon, Sarte, Nabokov -- But, really...