HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I've mostly been a host, surfed once in Paris with the awesome Iv. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I hosted dozens of people from all corners of the year, a few I now count as friends, others I've never seen since. Always a great time.

Movies: Harold and Maude, Hudsucker Proxy, Cinema Paradiso, Citizen Kane, Flirting With Disaster, High Fidelity, Crash, Sunrise, The Graduate, the Ice Storm, I Heart Huckabees, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Music: They Might Be Giants, Ani Difranco, Dar Williams, Matthew Sweet, Violent Femmes, Bjork, Komeda, TV on the Radio, Barenaked Ladies, Gift of Gab, Kinky, Mike Doughty, Soul Coughing, The Starlings, Pelusa, White Stripes, M.I.A., MoZo, Antibalas, North Strand Kontra Band Books: Struggling with "Ulysses" right now; have read "Covenant with Black America," "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, "McTeague" by Frank Norris, "On The Road," "Alexander and his Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day," "Too Close To Call" by Jeffrey Toobin, and "Bush's Brain."