COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE crashed with a couple of american ex-pats in siracusa (syracuse), sicily, when i was passing through town there in march. i'd done a certain amount of couchsurfing with friends before that, but that was my first experience with people i just met (didn't meet them through here - just somewhere downtown). it was really great.

movies: the graduate; the royal tannenbaums; fight club; reality bites; anything by cameron crowe or wes anderson; adaptation; easy rider; many others... music: neutral milk hotel; christian keifer; wilco; elliott smith; radiohead; red house painters; beatles; dan bern; ani difranco; leonard cohen; brenda weiler; pete yorn; modest mouse; tom waits... books: unbearable lightness of being (kundera); on the road (kerouac); howl and other poems (ginsberg); it is if i speak & letters to wendy's (wenderoth); ishmael & the story of b (quinn); tell me (addonizio); the bell jar (plath); fear and loathing in las vegas (thompson); the powerbook (winterson); etc.