Back in 2005 my pal Graham (https://goo.gl/L9A6sJ) and I dreamed up a Couch Surfing style site. I sold my car and moved to Chicago to kick it off. Imagine our despair when CS launched soon after! Luckily our motto was "if ya can't beat 'em, join 'em." We quickly became some of the first CS hosts and had over 100 visitors from all over the world stay with us!

After years I'm back on CS to rekindle my spirit of adventure and connection with the world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I enjoy stamping my passport in unexpected moments.

Interests

Talking about the future, living in the present

Music, Movies, and Books

In general: Movies are a great way to spend the afternoon when the weather's bad, books are an absolute necessity if you take public transportation or enjoy using your mind.

Since I have somewhat through and diverse tastes, I'll have to tackle these categories one at a time.

MUSIC I LIKED IN 2005:

[House: chicago, deep, disco] examples are not limited to: Ben Watt, Danny Tenaglia, Greenskeepers, Miles Maeda, OM, Naked Music, Colette, Andy Caldwell, Jay-J, Chris Lum, Pepe Deluxe, Kenny Dope, Scoreless After Two, Jazzanova, Mark Farina - kind of; DJ Heather, Miguel Migs, Fred Everything

[Music with Guitars] Rilo Kiley / Ms. Jen Lewis, Coldwar Kids, The Decemberists, The Flaming Lips, The White Stripes / Raconteurs; TV on the Radio, Young Marble Giants, Loretta Lynn's Van Lear Rose; Dark Star Orchestra, Cat Power, I'm from Barcelona, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Super Furry Animals, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Rapture

[Electro, Minimalist, Mashup, other] Chromeo, Flosstradamus, Miss Kitten, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Soulwax / 2 Many DJs; Anton Silber, Girl Talk, DJ Z-Trip & DJ P, Justice, Basement Jaxx, DJ Aristocrat, The Faint, Sneaker Pimps, Radiohead, Thievery Corporation, Zero 7, Morcheeba but not Massive Attack; The Knife, Lee Burridge, Felix da Housecat, Ascii, Coldcut, CSS, Daft Punk, Shadow, Jamiroquai, Junior Boys, LCD Soundsystem, Les Rythmes Digitales, St. Germain, Teddybears,

[Old School Hip Hop] Ice Cube throughB sides & Bootlegs; Public Enemy until Apoc 91... allowing for "He's Got Game"; EPMD, Tone Loc, Young MC, Hammer's first album; Snoop's Doggystyle, Doggfather & Tha Dogg Pound's Dogg Food; The Fugees, Roger & Zapp, Whodini, DJ Rectangle, Beastie Boys, Digital Underground, Warren G

[Intelligent Hip Hop] Deltron 3030 / Del, Handsome Boy Modeling School, some J5, Dilated Peoples, One Self, Outkast, Fanta 4 & Fettes Brot for the memories & translation; Die Firma for the politics; Dre beats, Kanye West, MF Doom, Nappy Roots, Sir Mix Alot's SWASS, the Roots,

[My Classic Rock] GnR, all Metallica until Black Album, Def Leopard's Hysteria, Motley Crue, I bought Megadeth but the cover art was always better than the music, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Stone Temple Pilots

[Guilty Pleasures from the past] Deep Dish, Madonna's Music, DMX Crew, Afroman, Master P's Ghetto D, The Streets, Eminem, Kaskade, Transiberian Orchestra's Live show; Faithless' Insomnia, E-40, Junior Sanchez, Lords of Acid, Mike Jones, Mika, Sophie Ellis Bextor,

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, Germany, United States

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