ABOUT ME

Ahoy! I've been living in New York City for two years now. I play many instruments, write and listen to lots of music, and enjoy eating great food and having drinks with friends, old and new. I went WWOOFing and HELPX-ing in Italy and Spain in 2009 by working on farms and swung through Denmark, Germany, and France in 2011. I enjoy going to clubs, dive bars, and house parties, hearing people's stories, playing music with people, telling stories, making new stories, you get the gist! Looking for a great time in Spain 2013!

PHILOSOPHY

Find the humor in things!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'd like to host people when I can and show them around New York I last hosted Joachim in D.C. when I was living there, who's traveling around the U.S. of A. We had a righteous time. Update: hosted Pierre in New York and had a great time!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Stayed with Pierre in Paris for a week. Awesome time!

Interests

Nature documentaries like Planet Earth, writing and keeping a journal, meeting bizarre people, discovering and falling in love with all the latest indie music and then subsequently hating it when everyone else likes it, playing and writing songs, drinking fine beers, drinking shitty beers, organic agriculture, farm animals, museums, history, cheese making, karaoke, twister, dominos, backpacking, foreign customs,

• animals
• farm animals
• writing
• documentaries
• dining
• cheese
• beer
• partying
• drinking
• clubbing
• house parties
• traveling
• music
• karaoke
• backpacking
• agriculture
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Tunes:

A.A. Bondy, Albert Hammond Jr., Amy Winehouse, The Apples In Stereo, The Arcade Fire, Architecture In Helsinki, Band of Horses, Beirut, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Kweller, Best Coast, Billy Bragg & Wilco, Boy Least Likely To, Broken Social Scene, Built To Spill, Camera Obscura, Caribou, The Changes, The Decemberists, Code Pie, Deerhoof, Delegate, Dinosaur Jr., Dr. Dog, Easy Star All-Stars, The Elected, Elliott Smith, The Extraordinaires, Farrah, The Flaming Lips, Fruit Bats, Ghostface Killah, Gipsy Kings, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Guster, Hem, Hot Chip, Iron & Wine, Islands, Jeff Tweedy, Jens Lekman, John Vanderslice, Loose Fur, The Magnetic Fields, Manu Chao, Margot & The Nuclear So & So's, Maritime, MGMT, M. Ward, Neutral Milk Hotel, The New Pornographers, Oasis, Of Montreal, The Olivia Tremor Control, Ozma, Peter Bjorn And John, Radiohead, Rilo Kiley, Rogue Wave, The Shins, Shout Out Louds, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Stars, The Strokes, Sufjan Stevens, Tapes 'n Tapes, The Thrills, TV on the Radio, The Unicorns, Vampire Weekend, Violent Femmes, The Walkmen, Weezer, The Whitest Boy Alive, Wilco, The Wonders, The Wrens, Wu-Tang Clan, Yo La Tengo

Tube:
Anthony Bourdain, Mad Men, The West Wing, Planet Earth, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Colbert Report, Daily Show, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Barefoot Contessa, Everyday Italian, Top Chef, Two Fat Ladies, History Channel

Flicks:
Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, Hayao Miyazaki, Martin Scorsese, Barr Potter, David Attenborough, Nature Docs

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was struck by lightning once. May or may not have super powers!