HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I'm up for meeting and hanging out with anyone I can reach. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Spent the summer of 08 couchsurfing in and around Belgium, met a lot of wonderful people from across the planet. Hosted passersthrough in Washington DC. Two years living and working in Austria, and couchsurfing through Europe whenever time allowed.

Movies: anything Mel Brooks, anything Monty Python, anything by Fatih Akin, the Prestige, Southland Tales, Abbott and Costello, Big Fish, Joyeux Noel, The Fall, Shoot Em Up, Little Miss Sunshine, Das Leben der Anderen, The Good the Bad the Weird Music: A lot of ska, a bit of electro, some hip hop, and some others mixed in for flavor. Books: The War Prayer, American Gods, The Count of Monte Cristo, Nothing Sacred, Slaughterhouse Five, The Years of Rice and Salt, Yiddish Policeman's Union, Peshawar Lancers, 1984, the Last and First Men, Narcissus and Goldmund, the Wheel of Time, A Song of Ice and Fire, Pastwatch, Dune, Guns Germs and Steel, Lies my Teacher Told Me, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Cosmos, 2312, Die Abenteuer des Simplicius Simplicissimus, Hyperion