CURRENT MISSION

To always be an active participant in my own life; to experience, create, write and travel

ABOUT ME

Very friendly; inveterate lefty; mellow;

PHILOSOPHY

Be the change in the world you wish to see -- Gandhi

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Offering a couch, a friend to show the city, a friendly smile and welcome

Interests

• traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Joan Didion, Ian McEwan, Emma Goldman, Leonard Cohen, Pablo Neruda, Thomas Mann, James Joyce, Kerouac, ee cummings; Anne Sexton, Milan Kundera, Tolstoy

Music: classic punk (Clash/Joy Division etc) to indie music (Feist/BSS/El Perro del Mar) to John Coltrane to synthpop

Movies: The Party (Peter Sellers); The Killing Fields; Blue; Annie Hall

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watching the sun set high up in a temple in Angkor Wat.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada