CURRENT MISSION
to formally declare my mind an independent nation state, then petition the U.S. government for asylum from it.

ABOUT ME
Visual artist and subterranean-writery-creature obsessed with cultural history and how people and societies create/cope with/ and make sense of their realities.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I signed up on couchsurfing back in 2011 but had to take a long hiatus due to assisting with family medical issues. Things have calmed down a bit, and while I regret at this time that I cannot host, I would be more than happy to show people around the museums in the D.C. area, give information on some of the things to do here, or meet for coffee and talk. If any artists want to work awhile for a few hours in a shared space, or writers want to have an exchange/critique session... that would be really fantastic!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Interests

• animals
• arts
• books
• poetry
• folklore
• movies
• traveling
• opera
• animation
• cultural studies
• philosophy
• surrealism
• semiotics
• visual art
• pastoral horror
• eremitism

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies
. The Three Crowns of the Sailor
. Neco z Alenky
. My Own Private Idaho
. Faust (Svankmajer version)
. Suspiria
. Viy
. Penda's Fen
. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
. The Tenant
. 2001 Space Odyssey
. Tideland
. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
. Return to Oz
. Hausu
. The Saddest Music in The World
. In the Realms of the Unreal
. The Amazing Mr. Blunden
. The Tales of Hoffman
. Menilmontant
. The Dark Crystal

Books:
A History of Beauty
A History of Ugliness
The Memory Palace: a Book of Lost Interiors
The picture of Dorian Gray
A House of Pomegranates
The Happy Prince and other Tales
The Collected Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anderson
We Have Always lived in the Castle
Le Petite Prince
The Confusions of Young Torless
The Affected Provincial's Companion
Alice in Wonderland
The Hunting of the Snark
The Spiritualists
Behind the Attic Wall
The Affected Provincial's Companion
Isis and Beyond: The Biography of Cecil E. Nixon

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Um...at age six I induced an existential crisis in myself using my dental phobia to understand the impermanence of everything I cared for or could care for in the future? (sorry folks)

Teach, Learn, Share

I have a lot of stories about interesting things that happened in history. I can help with travelers' questions on the D.C./Maryland/Virginia area.