HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Mi Coucha Su Coucha COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Kamel Boughaleb the Chilled French Morrocan Hitchiker Antoine Casteignau the Driven French Mountaineer Jill Niemann the Loving Hustler from the States Saskia Borremans the Brave and Crazy Belgian Josiah Hart the Enterprising Bombaywalla Komal V (entry deleted upon privacy request) Edwin and Scott the Young All-Asian Duo from All Over Pamela and Chiara the Italiano Vegan Street Performers The Cyclowns Keir Schone, the Saskatonian Playboy Surfer Andrew Kibert, the American Jewish Wonderboy Tony Walia, the Polish Sikh Traveller Extraordinaire

Favorite Books: Freedom at Midnight (Collins & Lapierre), Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell), A Suitable Boy (Seth), To Kill A Mockingbird (Lee), Roots (Haley), all of Oscar Wilde, Mr Nice (Marks), Junk (Burgess), A Wounded Civilization (Naipaul), The Prophet (Gibran) Favorite Movies: anything by Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrik, Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie, Pedro Almodovar or David Lynch, Crash, City of God, Irreversible, I Stand Alone, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Graduate, The Price of Milk, the Matrix series, Lord of the Rings series, Star Wars series, Lethal Weapon series, X-men series, Scent of a Woman, The Shawshank Redemption, Ali G, P Ramlee movies, The Black Adder series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BBC Mini Series), A Fish Called Wanda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Schindler's List, The Message, Any Given Sunday, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather series, The Bandit Queen, Gangs of New York, The Last of the Mohicans, Forrest Gump, Bowling for Columbine, the Fog of War, JFK, American History X, Trainspotting, Caligula, Blow, True Romance, Mirch Masala, Kinsey, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amores Peros Favorite Music: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Bob Marley, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Bhai Naranjan Singh, U2, Manic Street Preachers, Buddha Bar series, The Prodigy, Josh Wink, Takkyu Ishino, Deep Dish, John Digweed, Gurdas Mann, AR Rahman, The Beatles, Carcass, Pharrell Williams, Bob Dylan, Cypress Hill, The Gypsy Kings, Judge Jules, Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Oakenfold, Eminem, 50 Cent, Public Enemy, early Metallica, Punjabi MC, Search, M Nasir, Goa Trance, Electro-Clash, Placebo, Chemical Brothers, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Dave Mathews Band, Lauryn Hill, Sex Pistols, Massive Attack, Josh Wink, Faiz Ali Faiz, Bjork, Ray Charles, The Mars Volta, and oh, did I say Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan?