CURRENT MISSION

Figuring out my mission

ABOUT ME

I'm 22 and I want to (temporarily) commandeer your couch! In the not-too-distant future I'm going to embark on an epic, cross country road trip with my friends Nic and Andy.

Nic is 23. He majored in music. He enjoys life's simple pleasures. Simple pleasures like David Foster Wallace and live music. He's very laid-back and completely house broken.

Andy is 22. He double majored in Government and French. He's a very funny dude, and he once won a college stand-up competition. He's also a talented writer/dramatist, and he

PHILOSOPHY

Consumer culture is uncool.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Uh, by mooching off the kindness of other couch surfers?

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None...yet!

Interests

Art of all kinds; I really like modern and contemporary art and kinda hope that I'll be able to display my own work in a gallery someday. I also enjoy acting, reading, writing, and developing short-term, obsessive hobbies (like refurbishing furniture or decorating cakes)

• arts
• culture
• writing
• contemporary art
• acting
• reading
• music
• live music

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: The National, Sleigh Bells, Passion Pit, MGMT, The Arcade Fire, of Montreal, Patti Smith, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Built to Spill, David Bowie, Neil Young, Wolf Parade, Lady Gaga (seriously, I find her fascinating)

Movies: Dr. Strangelove, Midnight Cowboy, Bad Education, Harold and Maude, All About Eve, Sunset Boulevard, The Maltese Falcon, Pulp Fiction, A Clockwork Orange, China Town, Blade Runner, Memento, Withnail and I, Harold and Kumar Go To Whitecastle, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (just saw it!)

Books: Ham on Rye, Lolita, 100 Years of Solitude, The Razor's Edge, Catch-22, The Master and Margarita, Siddhartha, The Big Sleep, The Devil of Nanking, The Wapshot Chronicle, The Sound and The Fury, White Teeth, The Harry Potter series (obviously), The Stieg Larson Trilogy, anything Anton Chekov ever wrote

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once starred in a (really bad) low-budget horror flick called Thankskilling. It was about a demonic turkey who ran around terrorizing a group of college kids.