CURRENT MISSION

To meet new people in Los Angeles and explore Southern California!

ABOUT ME

I'm interested in traveling the world and meeting exciting, interesting people and having adventures! I live in Los Angeles and am hoping to see more of this part of the country.

PHILOSOPHY

"When the child was a child, it was the time for these questions: Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here and not there? When did time begin, and where does space end? Is life under the sun not just a dream? Is what I see and hear and smell not just an illusion of a world before the world? Given the facts of evil and people, does evil really exist? How can it be that I, who I am, didn't exist before I came to be, and that, someday, I, who I am, will no longer be who I am?" - Rainer Maria Rilke, Lied Vom Kindsein (Song of Childhood)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've hosted dozens of people from all over the world and have stayed on couches across the country.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've couchsurfed in Boston, New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Buffalo, Burlington, Austin, San Francisco and San Diego, and met up with surfers in Birmingham, Montreal and Paris. I hope this list will grow longer soon!

Interests

reporting, reading, cooking, dancing, adventuring, photographing, farming, living communally, bike riding!

• dancing
• cooking
• reading
• traveling
• guitar
• cycling
• rock climbing
• journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Books: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, How To Be Alone, Disgrace, Wrestling With Zion, Tropic of Cancer, Everything is Illuminated, The Yellow Wind, A Confederacy of Dunces, Still Life With Woodpecker, Hot Water Music, A Fan's Notes, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, The Way We Talk NowFavorite Movies: Trust, Z, Billy Liar, L'Atalante, Melvin Goes To Dinner, The Barbarian Invasions, Don't Look Back, Before Sunrise, Missing, Goodbye Lenin!, Annie Hall, Harold and Maude, Monsieur Ibrahim, L'Auberge Espagnole, Brazil, Closely Watched Trains, Legend of Billie Jean, Morvern Callar, Stranger Than Paradise, Rear Window, Cool Hand Luke, My Life As A Dog, The Dreamlife of Angels, Cinema Paradiso, Slacker, Lovers of the Arctic Circle, BreathlessFavorite Music: Brian Eno, Scott Walker, The Kinks, John Cale, Tom Waits, Nina Simone, Kurt Vile, Okkervil River, Destroyer, Woods, Television Personalities, Julie Doiron, Electrelane, Portastatic, Thee Oh Sees, Broken Social Scene, Explosions in the Sky, Scout Niblett, Atlas Sound, Mahjongg, Baths, Warpaint, Yuck, No Age

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once I was 15 and a bunch of us were up all night on a kibbutz in Israel just watching the sun rise, and it came up from the other side of the tree-covered hill we were sitting on and created this silver halo of light and we just began climbing toward the peak without saying anything.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you the basics of print or broadcast journalism, some guitar chords, how to bake bread, and a handful of key phrases in French or Hebrew.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Ghana, Israel, United States

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