HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I give tours, cook for people and just in general show foreigners to awesome places their tour buses don't stop. If you wanna see "America" go to LA, take a tour bus. If you wanna see real America, contact me! I can also, on a case-by-case basis, provide lodging.

Music: COIL, Bjork, Current 93, Throbbing Gristle, Laibach, Einstürzende Neubauten, Aphex Twin, HEALTH, Pictureplane, Capsule, Perfume, too many to list. I like rough edged electronic stuff but I also like pop and folksy, earthy stuff. A lot of stuff makes me yawn too. Movies: Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Pierre-Jeunette, Hayao Miyazaki, I'm not as into movies as I used to be and I never was into it enough to see all the classics. I'm slowly working through them though. Books: Probably 2/3rds of what I read is non-fiction stuff like science, history, philosophy, economics, language learning and stuff relevant to work (programming, management, etc.) Then for novels, I really like hard sci-fi but also "soft" sci-fi and fantasy and just some novels. The Sorrows of Young Werther is probably my favorite book of all time. It really messed with me.