COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE spent a semester on a couch in college, spent three months on a couch in a house with 9 people in Berkeley, now traveling europe via couchsurf and hospitalityclub, been on couches in munchen, hannover, hamburg and berlin...

"hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world" - marukami; anything by Tom Franklin or Barry Hannah; The Sea and Cake, O'Donel Levy, The Detroit Experiment, The Kills and The Zutons; "All The Real Girls" and "Mean Creek" and a thousand and one others....