Couchsurfing is simply the best thing ever happening to me. Also, my personal travel goal is traveling like a local and distinguishing myself from tourists -- and CS has proven to be the best way to get to know people and cities they live in.

Movies: Quentin Tarantino is the king. I have also recently developed an interest in documentaries. TV shows: How I Met Your Mother, Futurama, Simpsons, South Park, Lie To Me, My Name Is Earl and many, many others. I am hooked on TV shows! Music: Rock, folk, 8bit, pop, classic, jazz, pop-punk, occasionally hip hop. Gogol Bordello, Arctic Monkeys, Bondage Fairies, Norah Jones, Katy Perry (my guilty pleasure), Zdob Si Zdub, blink182, Green Day, Freak Fandango Orchestra -- just to name a few. Books: Ray Bradbury, Jonathan Safran Foyer, Russian classics -- Chekhov, Gogol, Mayakovski, Zoschenko. Harry Potter. Somehow I fell in love with the Hunger Games.