I've hosted several dozen CouchSurfers. I'm on good terms with those who've survived. I tend to take long breaks from hosting, but I'm back in the game now. Oh, I've only surfed five times myself. CS is fun. It's also a never-ending experiment that just keeps on providing me with interesting life lessons.

I really like the Coen brothers, Gaspar Noe, and Paul Thomas Anderson. Movies that have impressed me the most in the last few years include "Enter the Void", "2001: A Space Odyssey", "There Will Be Blood", "Adaptation", and "Fargo." I enjoy eye-candy long-form cinematography (i.e., Ron Fricke and Godfrey Reggio for the win.) Here's what I listen to — http://www.last.fm/user/DylanCashWaits I mostly read non-fiction. I'm a fan of Steven Pinker, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Barbara Ehrenreich, David Sedaris, and David Foster Wallace (to name a few.) I like to think of myself as a stand-up kind of guy (bad pun intended) — I like Ricky Gervais, Jimmy Carr, Louis CK, Anthony Jeselnik, Flight of the Conchords, Myq Kaplan, Daniel Tosh, Amy Schumer, and Reggie Watts. Does Karl Pilkington count as a comedian? Huge podcast fan, btw. OK, now get schwifty.