I love creativity, conversation, and playing outside. And the unexpected. That's probably my favorite.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To hang with interesting people.

Interests

• bouldering
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• reading and writing

Music, Movies, and Books

Beach House, anything Spencer Krug, Talking Heads, Christian Scott, James Blake, Kendrick Lamar, anything Q-Tip, Mos Def, Dilated Peoples, De La Soul, The Books, Animal Collective, classic jazz, The Bad Plus, Avashai Cohen Trio, Renaud Garcia Fonz, Daptone stuff esp. Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley, The Budos Band, Dr. Dog, classical especially the Russians and especially at the symphony, punk, especially at a dive bar, Beatles are better than the Stones, Edith Piaf is cool, so is Solange.

Movies I'm big into Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Alejandro Inarritu, Charlie Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman, Hayao Miyazaki, Sergei Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky, The Cohen Brothers, and Paul Thomas Anderson.

Favorite novelist is Kurt Vonnegut, but I love the Russians: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov. Obsessed with Tom Robbins back in the day. I'd probably still dig his writing. Sherman Alexie is great. Have a soft spot for classic sci-fi. Favorite poets are Aime Cesaire and Mary Oliver. Big into non-fiction . . . history, anthropology, philosophy, ecology/alternative food systems. Some favorites are James Scott, David Graeber, Michel Foucault , William Cronan, and Michael Pollan.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Eaten twenty slices of pizza when I was fifteen. I almost died.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Cooking skills. Nonsense. Booze.

Countries I’ve Visited

England, France, Morocco, Myanmar, Spain, Thailand