HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I relied on the kindness of other couch surfers while during my drive cross country to move out here, CSed all around Iceland, and am finally hosting people when I can! COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I once saw a guy surf a door. Never saw someone surf a couch, but I'd say it'd be a sight.

Books: Per Petterson, Everything is Illuminated, The Poor Mouth, Salinger, Hemingway, Lewis Carroll, Walden, On the Road/Big Sur, The Essential Rumi, Bobby Frost, Vincent Van Gogh's Letters to Theo, everything by Halldor Laxness. Music: Arcade Fire, Bob Dylan, Clancy Brothers, Deer Tick, Elliot Smith, FM Belfast, Grateful Dead, Handel, Iron and Wine, Jimmy Buffett, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Mum, Nick Drake, OX, Pink Floyd, Queen, Ray Lamontagne, Sigur Ros, Toots and the Maytals, U2 (not really), Van Morrison, The Wolfe Tones, Yusuf Islam, The Zombies Movies: Endless Summer, Sprout, Big Lebowski, I <3 Huckabees, Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Casablanca, Rear Window, Heima, Maiden Trip