CURRENT MISSION

Sing with me!

ABOUT ME

I'm from New York City. I like to play guitar and piano, and sing as well. I've spent all my most recent summers in Nepal, and I plan to keep going back when I can. I'm completing my undergraduate degree studying International Policy and History in Portland, Oregon, but right now I'm studying in Madrid. I'm a vegetarian and I love to cook. I like to learn new instruments and new recipes. I want my life to eventually become traveling and jamming with folk musicians from around the world.

Pues ahora estudio el castellano, y siempre busco gente con la que pueda practicar!

PHILOSOPHY

Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. -Kurt Vonnegut

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I just signed up! I can offer couches in Portland and occasionally in New York (Catskill Mountains!), and I intend to do some traveling through this website when I can!

Interests

Artichokes, garlic and avocados. Alpacas. Mountains. Skiing. Biking. Cooking. The Blues, gospel, and early rock. Jazz. The ocean. Comic books: the Invisibles, Preacher, Lone Wolf and Cub, the Watchmen, the Sandman. Anime (I've got gaps). Movies: Hitchcock, kung fu, samurai, among others.

• books
• singing
• cooking
• recipes
• vegetarian
• anime
• movies
• traveling
• folk music
• jazz
• guitar
• piano
• blues
• cycling
• bungee jumping
• skiing
• racquetball
• history
• mountains
• squash

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES:

Harold and Maude, Delicatessen, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, The Boondock Saints, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Rear Window, Everything Is Illuminated, El Espiritu de la Colmena, American Psycho, The Fountain.

MUSIC:

Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, Fatlip, The Pharcyde, Chet Baker, the Punch Brothers, Fela Kuti, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Led Zeppelin, Joni Mitchell, the Dandy Warhols, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Yann Tiersen, Balkan Beat Box, the Band, Beirut, Bela Fleck, Benny Goodman, the Black Keys, Built to Spill, Jimi Hendrix, God is an Astronaut, Medeski Martin and Wood, Manu Chao, Modest Mouse, Mulatu Astatke, Nirvana, Radiohead, Patti Smith, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, MORE

I sometimes do this:
http://www.myspace.com/blackguitarwithbluestrings
https://soundcloud.com/audri

I used to do this:
http://www.myspace.com/mustachecontortion

BOOKS:

Hyperion, The Golden Compass, All the King's Men, Ender's Game, Neuromancer, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Lolita, On the Road, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse 5, Song of Solomon, Leaves of Grass, Welcome to the Monkey House, The Sandman, The Invisibles

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Bungee jumping off a bridge in Tatopaani, on the Nepal-Tibet border. Most indescribable 4 seconds of my life.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'll teach you to make butternut squash soup, and I'll teach you any Joni Mitchell song on guitar.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain, United States

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