CURRENT MISSION

Give international people my version of the South! Meet new friends who want to discover the Southern U.S. culture, art, and music!

ABOUT ME

I love life and meeting individuals from all walks of life who can tell me about their culture, life experiences, and views. I work as a financial analyst, but I can talk literature, poetry, art, music with the best of them. I am just starting my travel journey in Europe, but I plan to explore the world.

PHILOSOPHY

be happy. know yourself. be open to new experiences. love and be loved.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I want to take international visitors on trips around the Southern U.S. - mainly weekend trips to places like Nashville, Memphis, distilleries like George Dickel, Jack Daniels.

Interests

I love having dinner with friends. Conversation is my main interest. I enjoy live music, literature, art galleries, travel, etc. etc.

• arts
• culture
• literature
• poetry
• traveling
• music
• live music

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Like Water for Chocolate, 13 Reasons, The Piano Teacher, A Room With A View, Letters to a Young Poet, Persuasion, Perfume, Pride and Prejudice, North and South, The Thirteenth Tale, Naked, The World According to Garp, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, The Sun Also Rises, The Moviegoer, Jitterbug Perfume

(Poets: Ferlinghetti, Keats, Neruda, Artaud, Donne, Blake, Dickinson, Li-Young Lee)

Movies: La belle et la bête, Les diaboliques, Delicatessen, Amelie, My Man Godfrey, Bukowski: Born into This, Cleo from 5 to 7, Drive, Midnight in Paris, Hanna, Dark Days, Genghis Blues, Gilda, Grand Hotel, Happiness, Night on Earth, Welcome to the Dollhouse, the Shop Around the Corner, Grey Gardens, Eyes Without a Face, Les Biches, Old Boy, Ichi the Killer, Night and Fog, The Hangover, Bridesmaids

Music: Etta James, Robert Johnson, The Stones, The Beatles, Billy Idol, Ryan Adams, Neko Case, Nick Drake, Cat Power, The Knife, The Black Keys, Gordon Voidwell, Lady GaGa, Southern Culture on the Skids, Howlin Wolf, Ray LaMontagne, Otis Redding, Say Hi to Your Mom, Tom Waits, M. Ward, Roy Orbison, Screamin J, Camera Obscura, Holly Golightly

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

helicopter ride around the south bend of the grand canyon, driving around the scottish highlands, italy is a good drug (Venice, Florence, Rome, yum yum yum)

Teach, Learn, Share

tell me about your life, culture, opinions, world view, favorite writers, turning points in your life