couchsurfing has been pretty amazing in my experience, when used as a tool for connecting and not as a tool for free lodging.

i'm really into a lot of different music - especially chill hop and soundtrack music, and then a mix of shoegaze/rock/dreampop/jazz i suppose. just depends on the group. some: american football, animal crossing OST, bilinda butchers, chinese football, the elder scrolls OST, elephant gym, elijah who, good morning, ghibli, haruka nakamura, her, iron & wine, jeremy soule, jinsang, kinoko teikoku, lamp, lost in translation, maps & atlases, mitsume, never young beach, nujabes, oliver wilde, phum viphurit, the pillows, plastic girl in closet, the radio dept., sales, the smashing pumpkins, the strokes, supercar, tallest man on earth, tokyo jihen, tomppabeats, world of warcraft OST, (500) days of summer movies - interstellar, star wars, lord of the rings, arrival, patterson, planet earth, lost in translation, all of ghibli books, not so well read maybe. i read/listen to the same thing a lot. the same thing mostly being harry potter. the little prince, lord of the rings, siddhartha, calvin and hobbes.