HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING It's tough to always rely on chance to meet interesting people in a new place, so I like using CS to find like-minded people to spend time with. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE The best ever? After taking a disastrous job as caretakers of a Bed and Breakfast in Maui, my wife (at the time) and I were forced to flee. We ended up living in the laundry room of the estate of some reclusive NY millionaire. We stayed at the invitation of the property's caretaker: a nudist, Chris Farley look-alike who enjoyed boogie-boarding, smoking weed, and his work as a massage therapist. I don't think I've ever met anyone else so close to Nirvana. I have met some wonderful people through this website, both as a host and as a guest, and I have even had the chance to visit a few people I have hosted while passing through their home countries (and it was wonderful to go to new places and know I already had a friend there)!

Anything by David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson, Tim Burton, John Waters, the Coen Brothers, Christopher Nolan, Danny Boyle, and Pixar... Music? Too much to list. I'm still a downloader instead of a streamer. I enjoy Dave Eggers, David Sedaris, Neil Gaiman, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Robbins, and a lot of the stuff published by McSweeney's.