I'm an easygoing person who likes hosting and having people over. I've done my share of sleeping on other people's couches/floors/chairs as a touring musician, and I'm finally getting around to paying it forward. EDIT: having moved to NYC, I don't have a couch anymore, but I'm working on getting my own place with a couch! I recently made a career change to software engineering, and I love it so far.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Hoping to meet travelers from all over the world and help them get where they're going!

Interests

Music in all forms, books (especially old ones), history (especially US history), hiking, basketball

• books
• music
• hiking
• basketball
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: all sorts of things but mostly rock, extremely specifically 90s post-hardcore, but anything with loud guitars and dissonance will grab my attention. Jawbox, Chavez, Dismemberment Plan are perennial faves. On the less dissonant end I love love love Joni Mitchell, Joanna Newsom, and Stevie Wonder. I'm a big fan of everyone on or formerly on Exploding in Sound (Speedy Ortiz, Stove, Palehound, Ovlov, etc!) Other recent loves include Hop Along, Pinegrove, Ravel, and Albeniz.

Movies: PT Anderson, Steve McQueen, Pegg/Frost, Coen Brothers, David Lynch.

Books: Recently enjoying Shirley Jackson, Dorothy Sayers, Virginia Woolf, Ta-Nehisi Coates. All timers: Gogol, Byatt, Tolkien, Doestoevsky.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Had an unforgettable though brief trip to Heimaey in Iceland in 2014.

What I Can Share with Hosts

If you have a guitar I can play a song or listen attentively while you play a song!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States