CURRENT MISSION

My current mission is to live.

ABOUT ME

I hate filling these things out. Talking about myself is definitely my weak suit. I hate phrases like "fun-loving" or "easygoing" because, in reality, everyone likes to think they are fun-loving and easygoing.
In short, I am a musician, a writer, a filmmaker, a thinker, a lover, a DJ, a dancer, a sleeper, a critic, and a pretty good cook. I like reading, listening, eating, laughing, creating, and destroying occasionally (only in controlled settings). I enjoy bike riding and hiking, but most would describe me as lethargic. I love to travel, I love to meet people. I don't have a high tolerance for those who refuse to question. I appreciate the high life but I take the low road. I like to sleep on the floor.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am excited to meet humans.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have never formally participated in the project, though I am excited to be an active n00b. I have, however, hosted strangers in my homes both in New Jersey and in Ohio, where I have put up incoming freshmen and traveling musicians. I have participated in home-stay programs before and I am a very respectful inhabitant of other people's spaces. I am relatively neat, and I don't smell.

Interests

• writing
• dancing
• cooking
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• cycling
• hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

IN NO ORDER:
The Thin Red Line - Malick, Barton Fink - Brothers Coen, The Shining - Kubrick, Do The Right Thing - Lee, Magnolia - Anderson, Blow Up - Antonioni, The Conversation - Coppola, Taxi Driver - Scorcese, Rashoman - Kurosawa...etc. etc. etc.

Led Zeppelin I - Zeppelin, Meddle - Floyd, Sgt. Pepper's - Beatles, Bringing It All Back Home - Dylan, Bump City - Tower of Power, Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys, Funeral - Arcade Fire, Movements - Booka Shade, Tago Mago - Can, Ah Um - Charles Mingus, She's In Control - Chromeo, Point - Cornelius (!!!!), Homework - Daft Punk, Wokka - David Bowie, The Chronic - Dr. Dre, Masters of the Universe - Binary Star, Los Angeles - Flying Lotus, The Warning - Hot Chip, Donuts - J Dilla, In The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson, Self-Titled - LCD Soundsystem, Lost Horizons - Lemon Jelly, Kind of Blue - Miles Davis, Life After Death - Biggie, Dummy- Portishead, Self-Titled - Rage Against the Machine, One Hot Minute - Red Hot Chili Peppers, Melody A.M. - Royksopp, Attack Sustain Decay Release - Simian Mobile Disco, YoYoYoYoYo - Spank Rock, Dark Days/Light Years - Super Furry Animals, Fear of Music - Talking Heads, Speaking in Tongues - Talking Heads, Criss-Cross - Thelonious Monk, Loaded - Velvet Underground, The Blue Album - Weezer, Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes, 36 Chambers- Wu Tang Clan, xx - The xx, The Sounds of the Sounds of Science - Yo La Tengo;
Anything that Thom York or Johnny Greenwood puts their hands on.

Ulysses - James Joyce, The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka, Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth, 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare, The Underground Man - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Stranger - Albert Camus, Walden - Henry David Thoreau.....etc. etc. etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I climbed Ometepe, an inactive volcano in the center of Lake Nicaragua. Inside was one of the most glorious sights I've ever seen in my life.