CURRENT MISSION

To be as honest as I can while making music. To eat. Everything.

ABOUT ME

I write music: for musical theater, for records, for dance (which is a bit like scoring a film, except it's real, and you can smell the people) I live in Brooklyn New York.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've only just joined, and stayed in Vienna with the most lovely couple imaginable; charming, warm, generous, young artists who cooked up a storm and showed us around the city. Then when the younger sister of one of our hosts came to New York, I hung out with her. Then my host himself came for a week. I'm excited to continue on this path of good folks...

Interests

Music, food, art, dance, dancing, conversations, word-games like taboo, wit, jokes, theater, love, sillyness, guitars, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Guys and Dolls, Nine Inch Nails, Eminem, Rufus Waiwright, Van Halen, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Brooklyn, Italy, warm weather, fireplaces when it's cold,

• arts
• theater
• dancing
• dining
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

Grapes of Wrath. "Max Perkins, Editor of Genius." Perkins was Hemingway's editor, Fitzgerald's editor. Fascinating guy.
Tobias Wolff's "This Boy's Life" and "Old School" are two recent favorites.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-fed wild hyenas raw camel meet in Ethiopia.
-hiked through China when I was 19 with 5 pals.
-climbed the biggest mountain in Panama starting at midnight; also in Panama, rubbed the belly of a baby two-toed sloth called 'Tember' (he was born in September) and fed banana to a Kinkaju.
-with 3 three hungry pals, ordered every single item on the menu at my favorite chef's (Mario Batali) favorite restaurant in Modena, Italy.

Teach, Learn, Share

-Critics are to art what pigeons are to statues.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Cambodia, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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