HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I have hosted a little and surfed a little, also done a fair bit of hitchhiking round Europe and sleeping on pretty awkward surfaces - or lack thereof.

Some films I love: City of God, The Royal Tenenbaums, Into the Wild, Harold and Maude, Casablanca, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation, Magnolia... too many! Books: anything by Ram Dass, David Foster Wallace, Jon Ronson... some books I like: The Ascent of Humanity, White Teeth, Brave New World, Infinite Jest, Master and Margherita, A Confederacy of Dunces, Crime and Punishment.