HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I'm finally in a position where I can host people and I'm excited about it! I also try to connect people however I can and let people know about this great community. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE In the summer of 2010, I stayed near Shibuya with a CS member named Hana. I stayed at the beginning of the summer in May and then again at the end in early August. I guess in total I was with him for about 2.x weeks? I had a fantastic experience. Everyone I've connected with from the CS community has impacted my life in a positive way.

Authors: Steven Pinker, Alan Watts, Douglas Hofstadter, Sam Harris, Hermann Hesse, Bertrand Russell, Ayn Rand, David Hume, Dostoevsky, Emerson, Aldous Huxely, Gandhi, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, Eckart Tolle, Lao Tse Movies: Life in a Day, I <3 Huckabees, Lost in Translation, The Fountain, Waking Life, all Ghibli and Miyazaki Hayao films Music: -Contemporary/Pop --Air, Yes, The Beatles, Fleet Foxes, Beach Boys, Vampire Weekend, Band of Horses, The Strokes, Ratatat, Animal Collective, Fake Brad... Stuff like that... -Classical --Debussy, Chopin, Schumann, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Satie, Yann Tiersen, Uematsu Nobuo, Hisaishi Joe.