**hey guys! I get tons of requests for people wanting to stay because they're looking to be near NYC. That's awesome, but I don't live close enough to the city to make that doable for travelers. I also don't have the time to respond to each message personally. If something is bringing you to Bayonne or Jersey City for a few days, this might be a good fit. Other than that you will have better luck with people a bit closer to the city itself. My apologies! Happy travels!**

PHILOSOPHY

Walk softly and carry a big notebook.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I would like to host and be hosted!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet!

Interests

Creative writing, music, coding, hacking, free and open source software, digital rights, forests.

• writing
• cooking
• coding
• music
• piano
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Harold and Maude, The Holy Mountain, Before Sunrise, Anything by Jean Cocteau, Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, Bruce Conner, Werner Herzog...I love movies but am pretty picky about them, music...Stereolab, Kraftwerk, Cocteau Twins, Devendra Banhart, Cocorosie, Nick Cave, Mike Patton, Ravi Shankar, Four Tet, Kate Bush, The Incredible String Band, Johnny Cash, The Misfits, Sleater-Kinney, Digable Planets, books..Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Friedrich Nietzsche, Roland Barthes, Goethe, Maurice Blanchot, Jeanette Winterson, Phillip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Robert Coover, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

walked on hot coals :)

Teach, Learn, Share

HTML, CSS, web administration, piano playing, nonprofit management, hacking, philosophy...

I can teach you to recite the first few verses of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Middle English if that's your thing.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Happy to cook, happy to help out in any way I can!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, England, Greece, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Scotland

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States