CURRENT MISSION

Get to Charleston

ABOUT ME

My home away from home is working in professional kitchens. It took awhile to figure that out. And quite a bit of money spent on a degree in a field I no longer pursue.

PHILOSOPHY

books recently: california dish, jeremiah tower; the tummy trilogy, calvin trillin; the quiet american, graham greene;

book currently reading: all quiet on the western front

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am new to this community and have just begun a trip that will take me thru the southeastern part of the States.

Interests

on iPod that iLost! : antony and the johnsons, the band, benny carter, bob seger, will oldham et al, tom petty,the byrds, cat power, cocorosie, david bowie, dr john, ella fitzgerald, elvis costello, stephen jay foster, gram parsons, harry nilsson, jonathan richman, joni mitchell, karen dalton, kate bush, faure, leonard cohen, loudon wainwright, mahalia jackson, randy newman, rufus wainwright, ryan adams, stan getz, sonny rollins, sufjan stevens, weezer, wilco, lester young

• cats
• books
• reading

Music, Movies, and Books

"Children of the World"

"Our Daily Bread"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hung artwork in the offices of the World Trade Center in the the late 90s and often went to the top floor whereupon I saw amazing views of Manhattan and experienced first hand the sway of the towers in the wind. Then, not long afterward, seeing them come down on television.

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