CURRENT MISSION

To narrow down my ever-changing 'missions' to be able to write one big definitive awe-inspiring statement in this spot.

ABOUT ME

I'm up for a change of routine any day, any time, and have generally experienced that such things fall into your lap when you least expect them.

PHILOSOPHY

"Mistakes are the portals to discovery." - Diggers (great movie)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I had a hot little apartment in the center of a pretty city that I loved to offer up, but am now in between cities myself, so I'm on hiatus from hosting....

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Haven't needed a couch, but have hosted a bunch that have.

Interests

accents, backcountry, backstage, Bali, biking in skirts, bonfires, boutiquey businesses, my brother, burlap, BYOs, calluses, canoeing, cars that make me a hypocrite, children (!!), costumes, cowboy boots, Craigslist, designing and re-designing interiors, exaggeration, farming, feng shui, film, fishermen, flea markets, food as art, frizbee tournaments, fuzz.com, gettin' fancy, goat cheese, a good bass line, handwriting, hanging baskets in place of drawers, hardwood, hospitality, houseplants, Hundertwasser buildings, indulgent bouts of writing, internet airfares, jotting notes, knitting, Korean spas, Latin America, long drives, Maine, making strangers feel right at home, manchego, Montenegro, montepulciano, my gramophone, narrow streets of stone, naturopathy, New Mexico, orange harvest moons, people-staring (extreme people-watching), planning crazy trips then ditching the agenda, playing with time zones, poignant one-liners, prosciutto, Starr restaurants, reunions, rivers, runway stylists, salsa, samba, sandblasting glass, sarcasm, scarves, shoes, showering outdoors, singing, singing, (more singing), sleeping on boats, smokey vocal chords, snapping photos, snow and everything it brings about, someone's personal smell, the South, specialty magazines, stick-shift, sushi, tango, The Yukon, unexpected expertises of others, vespas, VHS, vintage/artisan/gourmet, vitamin D, writing lyrics/poems/plots and other goodies and pretending I'll ever do anything with them...

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• singing
• spas
• tango
• dining
• cheese
• cars
• knitting
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• canoeing
• skiing
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms6BtRYMtpw
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDxMQaMqsig
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_series
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Fix, Be Kind Rewind, Young @ Heart, The Adventures of Power, Heima (Sigur Ros), Life/Times of Guy Terrifico, Into the Wild, The Up Series, Bella, Across the Universe, Diggers, Talk to Me, Two Days in Paris, Once, Baraka, Superbad/KnockedUp/Juno, Surf's Up, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Secret of Roan Inish, Empire Records, Orpheo Negro, Top Gun, Angels in America, Dante's Inferno (the paper puppet version), Off the Map, Tap, Amelie, Oceans trilogy, Kinky Boots, Wet Hot American Summer, Sullivan's Travels, Waking Life, Dot the i, Garden State, Ballad of Jack and Rose, anything Christopher Guest, Stomp the Yard, Grand Canyon, Big Lebowski, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Happenstance, Little Miss Sunshine, Breakin' I & II, Office Space, Marie Antoinette, Cool Runnings, Imaginary Heroes, The Family Stone, Boondock Saints/Lockstock, Le Auberge Espagnole/Russian Dolls, Big Fish, anything Miyasaki, White Diamond (gotta love the rooster), Fried Green Tomatoes, Tideland, Old School (anything Vince Vaughn-ish), Monsoon Wedding (for the music), The Tango Lesson, The World's Fastest Indian, Newsies, The Notebook, Legends of the Fall, Almost Famous (for Mom), Thunderheart, The Mission, those pretty kung fu movies they show at Mantra in Philly...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Mmm, wow. Let's save the thousand stories for nights on the couch, eh?

Teach, Learn, Share

See "Interests"...I'll share 'em all.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Ecuador, Peru, United Kingdom, United States

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