HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I've hosted in Minneapolis, USA; Paris, France; and Madurai, India and surfed in Iceland, France, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I have hosted, surfed, and found many lifelong friends through couchsurfing.

film: jim jarmusch, wes anderson, hayao miyazaki music: rootsy americana, indie folk, dream pop, post-rock, hip hop, classical indian, various contemporary "world" music. for instance: sundown songs, charlie parr, buffy sainte-marie, tom waits, cat power, fleet foxes, joanna newsom, ballake sissoko & vincent segal, bjork, patti smith, amadou and mariam, rhye, chet faker, etc etc etc) recent books read: the four desires, soulcraft, the book of flying, east west, autobiography of a yogi, shantaram, wild fermentation, 1Q84, kafka on the shore, the situationist city, just kids, cannery row