CURRENT MISSION

To have a blast on my three week trip to Europe to see MUSE!

ABOUT ME

Hi!

I'm Jen.

I work for a fantastic bar management company in downtown Chicago, and I do all the in-bar graphic design and marketing for the company.

I love music, and I've spent the last 10+ years of my life working off and on for various local and national bands. Marketing, promotions, merch slinger, gear loader, you name it I've done it and loved every minute of it.

I play more video games that 99% of the girls I know. I'm a VERY proud owner of a Playstation3, and it's hard for me to even acknowledge that my roommate has an Xbox360. I play a lot of Half-Life, Resident Evil 5 and Fallout 3, but my favorite game is Bioshock (and yes, I'm stupidly excited for the second one to come out in February). There's a picture in my profile of my Little Sister tattoo, if that's any indication!

I run a Rock Band night at one of the bars in our company too! We have a ridiculous amount of songs in our database (and the sweet $300 custom drum kit, which I usually take my frustrations out on), and while it can be a very tiring job trying to show drunk people how to play, it's also my favorite night of the week. I mean come on, I get paid to sit in a bar and play video games :)

One of my goals in life is to see a concert in every US state, at least 5 major cities in Canada, the UK, 5 other countries in Europe, Australia and Japan. I'm about to go see Muse in Hamburg, Glasgow and London, so that will take care of a few of them.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm pretty new to the whole couch surfing thing (I've only had 2 surfers at my apartment so far), but I'm looking to experience my first overseas CS'ing soon!

Interests

• design
• graphic design
• concerts
• festivals
• cooking
• running
• video games
• traveling
• music
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC

Muse, Brand New, Our Lady Peace, Blue October, Matthew Good, Every Time I Die, Dropkick Murphys, 30 Seconds To Mars, Panic At The Disco, Straylight Run, Bayside, Does It Offend You Yeah?, Reverend Horton Heat, Taking Back Sunday, Jeff Buckley, Billy Talent, Fall Out Boy, Finch, Funeral For A Friend, Glassjaw, Deftones, Alkaline Trio, Oasis

BOOKS

Harry Potter, The Dark Tower, anything by Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Easton Ellis, Stephen Fry or Neil Gaiman. I'm also a huge comic book nerd. Marvel 'Verse, Wolverine in particular. also Gaiman's Sandman series, and both Frank Miller and Alan Moore's work :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Went to Woodstock '99 (I was 16 at the time)
- Spent the week after Woodstock following the fellas from Econoline Crush on tour through Tennessee and Texas
- Drove 15 straight hours from Chicago to New Jersey for the Skate And Surf Festival in 2004
- Spent 5 solid years of my life traveling around the Midwest working for some fantastic bands

Teach, Learn, Share

I absolutely love to cook.

Whether I'm couch surfing somewhere or someone is couch surfing with me, I'd absolutely love to learn/share some culinary skills.