2021 Edition

Love music, love travel, love food, writing, reading, dancing, laughing, singing, exploring, coffee, film, and everything in between.

Now in Berlin, formerly San Francisco, formerly western Massachusetts

@clauderainsofficial

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Life is short and full of mystery

Interests

• books
• music festivals
• cooking
• coffee
• chess
• juggling
• music
• road trips
• mountains
• travel
• film photography
• performance art
• plants
• vinyl
• tarot
• vans

Music, Movies, and Books

Recently listening to Amen Dunes, Porches, Juana Molina, Thee Oh Sees, Neil Young, Guided by Voices, MBV, Harry Nilsson, Sun Kil Moon, Big Star, Wings, Mingus, Duster, William Basinski, The War on Drugs, Donovan, Tears for Fears, Soft Machine, Kate Bush, Stone Roses, Emitt Rhodes, Stereolab, Sean Nicholas Savage, some nostalgic 90s music video hits (all you sixpence none the richer heads out there) generally: a potpourri of whatever, I love music

Recent Films: Can't Get You Out of My Head, Dune, Mank, Der Rausch, Kamikaze 1989, generally: Tartovsky, Resnais, Kaufman, crummy dated action movies a la Road House, Eyes Wide Shut, literally any history documentary

Currently or still reading: Infinite Jest until I lose my next copy again, The Glass Bead Game, Tropic of Cancer, this history book on Tamerlane, Clarice Lispector, pulp sci-fi, my own mediocre poetry as I write it, the New Yorker, meme subreddits, podcasts in lieu of actual reading

Teach, Learn, Share

I play all kinds of instruments and do tarot. Also, can help with questionable tax advice, historical reenactments, decent copyediting, political debates, onsite thesaurus needs, juggling, cooking, making or having drinks, gambling advice, playing chess, wandering around, driving aimlessly around the world or to the airport, dream interpretations, and positive reinforcement

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, Germany, United States