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Overview

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  • Fluent in English, Thai; learning Spanish
  • 37, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • Inventing useless machines and writing revolutionary trea...
  • BA Political Philosophy
  • From Ashland
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Dance through the streets of Lyon with rad new friends and recite poems over the rooftops. Or just sleep, quietly, in strangers' houses and make as little a disturbance as possible.

ABOUT ME

I'd like to be able to breathe underwater, but alas. I have tried to play the paino, accordian, harmonica, violin, recorder, guitar, etc. but I hate practicing so instead I just sing for my supper. I don't know how to answer this question. I often feel frustrated by modernity's discontents and so spend a lot of time reading Rousseau and Nietzsche and others and romantacizing a lost era I never knew. Still, the 21st century is bizarre and wildly fascinating, so I can't complain. I love poets who refuse to call themselves poets and people who praise the absurd. My middle name is Carpenter but I wish it were Cordelia.

PHILOSOPHY

Epiphanies, again and again.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm off to France for the summer so will be couchsurfing for a while. But I'd be happy to host folks travelling through Oregon or Colorado when I return.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

No official experience--I'm new to this whole thing. Although I've stayed at random strangers houses in India, Poland, England, Thailand and Texas. Strange and fabulous times indeed.

Interests

Old bathtubs. Opening my eyes underwater. Reading on rooftops. Feeling superfluous. typewriters. hand-written letters. The Polis. Rousseau. Street art. Silent parties. Making up sounds. Eating apples from top to bottom (instead of around the side)including the core. Talking to crazies.

  • arts
  • poetry
  • singing
  • street art
  • dancing
  • partying
  • reading
  • traveling
  • guitar
  • violin

Music, Movies, and Books

Steinbeck, Neruda, Yeats, Eliot, The Little Prince, Animal Collective, Cat Power, Beirut, The Books, Gillian Welch, Joanna Newsome, M Ward, Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly, Nina Simone, Ella and Louis, Vince Guaraldi, Tin Hat Trio MOVIES:Lives of Others, Polanski's Macbeth, Blow Up,anything by Almodovar, all Wes Anderson films, Goodbye Lennon, Taxi Driver, Black Orphius, Manhattan, ETC....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once I lost my passport in Rajasthan, India and (one hour later) found it underneath a white cow. it's really true.

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