CURRENT MISSION

hootenanny and shinanigans!

ABOUT ME

I live in Historic Parkridge now with my husband and dog. We are close to bowling, tacos, the food coop, bus line, an awesome park, the old city and downtown where you will find good bars, coffee shops, music and even better people.

PHILOSOPHY

please and thank you

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

do it to it

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted 50+ people, and it has been amazing.

Interests

art, records, movies, books, bicycles, thrift stores, knitting, jukeboxes, cooking, smelly arm pits, whiskey, and so on

• dogs
• arts
• books
• dining
• cooking
• coffee
• thrifting
• movies
• knitting
• music
• cycling
• bowling

Music, Movies, and Books

Just to name a few...
Music: Girl Groups, Ramones, The Stooges, Captain Beefheart, Monks, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Os Mutantes, Little Richard (met this guy), Dickies, Shocking Blue, Gories, Crime, Saints, Replacements, Gun Club, Canned Heat, Television, Zombies, the Who, Of Montreal, the Books, Albert Ayler, Hubble Bubble, Music Machine, the Seeds, Marvellettes, Ronnettes, The Troggs, MC5, Shadows of Knight, Thin Lizzy, Justin Timberlake, Misfits, Tubeway Army, Blackalicious, Outkast, Chrome, Hank Williams, X-Ray Spex, B-52's, Michael Jackson (Jackson 5), Bad Brains, Love, Mars, Homosexuals, The Coasters, Big Black, Swell Maps, The Nerves, Quintron, Castaway's, The Damned, Sonic Youth, the Contours, the Kinks, John Cage, Link Wray, Dick Dale, Jesus and Mary Chain, Klaus Nomi, Roxy Music, Screamers, Eric Satie, Sun Ra, Beethoven, Sonics, the Germs, Peaches, Otis Redding, Velvet Underground, Wire, Melvins, Coltrane, Ike and Tina Turner, Slayer, Standells, Syd Barrett, Can, Vibrators, Crime, Outkast, Sweet, Gun Club, Joy Division, Buzzcocks, 5678's, Guitar Wolf, Shangri-La's, Dirtbombs, Public Enemy, Wanda Jackson, Iron Maiden, Detroit Cobra's, M.I.A, WuTang Clan, Beach Boys, New York Dolls, Blondie, Gang Of Four, Sam the Sham and the Pharoh's, The Fall, Kraftwerk, Electric Prunes, X, Black Sabbath, Velvet Underground, Buck Owens, Real Kids, Midnighters, Birthday Party, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, James Brown, Television, Squeeze, Dead Boys, Tribe Called Quest, SHE, 13th Floor Elevator, Geza X, Stones, Bikini Kill, Elvis, Pere Ubu, McLusky, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Nina Hagen, Solomon Burke, Booker T, Chuck Berry, Pandorah, Vaseline's, Memphis sound, a bunch of one hit wonders, ETC......

Movies: A Clockwork Orange, Fear and Loathing, Repo Man, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Dr. Strangelove, The Warriors, Big Lebowski, Night of the Hunter, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, F for Fake, Marx Bros., Taxi Driver, Annie Hall, Rockers, Rock N' Roll High School, Suburbia, Faust, Ryan's Daughter, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Slither, Knife in the Water, Mystery Train, American Movie, the Tenant, Blowup, Taxi Driver, The Good, Bad and the Ugly, ALL the Alfred Hitchcock movies, Raising Arizona, This Is Spinal Tap, Royal Tennenbaums, The Shining, Blue Velvet, Erasurehead, Wild at Heart, The Jerk, Polyester, Pink Flamingos, 8 1/2, Dracula, (Lugosi), Kids are Alright, Cry Baby, Slither, Ichi the Killer, Stardust Memories, Rockers, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill Kill, Cinderella,

Books: Stoker's Dracula, Shelley's Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Phsychotic Reaction by Lester Bangs, Please Kill Me, A People's History of the United States, Vice Magazine, Vladamir Nobakov, Robert Crumb, Allan Ginsberg, David Sedaris, William S. Burroughs, Agatha Christie, Kurt Vonnegut, Kafka, Oscar Wilde, Alduous Huxley, Carson McCullers, J.D. Salinger, Stephen King(is so under rated, hah

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

yer mom.

Teach, Learn, Share

cooking, biking, knitting, art critique/making, building stuff....i can do and share alot. i wanna learn as much as i can. yep.

Countries I’ve Visited

France

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, United States

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