HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Looking for cool locals wherever in the world I may be. Of course, if you ever come to LA, you can consider yourself taken care of. I love showing visiting friends all the hidden gems of my city.

Life Is Beautiful, Ikiru, I <3 Huckabees, The Apartment, The 400 Blows, The Girl on The Bridge, Wild Strawberries, Machuca, Pulp Fiction, Barry Lyndon, Rockers, Winchester /73, The Life Aquatic, Bullets Over Broadway. Generally: Jazz, Library, Latin (salsa), African, Turkish (psych), Reggae, Boogie, Hip Hop, Funk, Soul. Stevie Wonder, Azymuth, Barrington Levy, Steely Dan, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Funkadelic, Prince, Stereolab, Bill Evans, Homeboy Sandman, Madlib, A Tribe Called Quest. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver, 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, On The Road by Jack Kerouac, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago, The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James.