HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I can provide a couch from time to time, but mostly I travel. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I have stayed with wonderful people in Switzerland, Spain, and Italy, and I've never had anything but a great experience.

Amelie, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Fall, Pixar, Fallen, Gilda, Beauty and the Beast Momus, Beta Band, Yann Tiersen, Tom Waits, Lead Belly. The book is always better than the movie. Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages, Earthly Powers, A Confederacy of Dunces, Chuck Palahniuk, David and Amy Sedaris, Nigella Lawson, Haruki Murakami