CURRENT MISSION

Spread the love.

ABOUT ME

We are Amanda Pantz and Jonathan Apgar. We are married. Jonathan paints paintings. Amanda is a student. We are vegetarians. We make things, music, drawings, dinner, clay animals. We love animals. We like to ride bikes and walk around. We love to eat with people. We like to take photos. Amanda is 5'4", Jonathan has a beard. We both want to live our lives with other people around.

PHILOSOPHY

Love God and each other and others.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

First time! but we love it. ok.

Interests

peace and peacemaking, art, human rights, Jesus, social justice, animals, re-imagining the christian church, food (indian, middle eastern), weather, black holes, architecture, Jewish masculinity, feminist peace activism, the Bible, language, communal living, finding the bitterest beer, jalepeno and pineapple pizza, hasidism, christian mysticism, scotch, the environment and how to be master composters, boots, most things second-hand.

• animals
• arts
• architecture
• environment
• human rights
• dining
• beer
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Arvo Part; Boris; Sun O))); 60s garage; Philip Glass; Iron & Wine; Iron Maiden; The Kills; Tijuana Panthers; Wounded Lion; Lightning Bolt; Gillian Welch; Black Ox Orkestar; Muslimgauze; Psalters; Sebadoh; The Palace Brothers; Sleep; Mulatu Astatke; Liars; Swan Lake; CAN.

Books: Authors Chaim Potok, Murakami; Irresistible Revolution; The Kingdom of God is Within You; The Handmaid's Tale (and other Margaret Atwood); Anathem (Neil Stevenson); Till We Have Faces (and other CS Lewis); Most writings Paul Auster; (Amanda can only remember books recently read: The Wandering Star); Kazuo Ishiguro; Thomas Merton; speculative fiction about dystopic future worlds.

Movies: Anything Jane Austen made BBC or otherwise; a good 'heist' movie; Meduzot; Valz im Bashir; El Orfanato; Dr. Strangelove; The works of Pedro Almodovar; Night Watch, Day Watch; The Road; Tina Fey; Kris Kristofferson; 2001 Space Odyssey; The Gospel of John; The Mighty Boosh; Arrested Development.

Teach, Learn, Share

Amanda has a wonderful recipe for dahl. Both Jonathan and Amanda want to learn to whittle/carve something out of wood. We want to learn how to make plants grow and not die (they always die!).

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Yemen

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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