I've got a pretty sarcastic sense of humor, I love spontaneity, I'm super easy to get along with and I love to cook. I'm really into old jazz, ragtime, soul/blues, and classical, and my idea of a good mellow time is putting on some good music and cooking a good meal, maybe watching an old movie or some good TV or something. Anything goes though with me, really. I love ballet, comedy and film history, so if you're into any of those things we'll definitely get along well! My life goal is to study film and television here in CA and move out to NY after I get my degree.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm on couchsurfing to meet awesome people that share similar interests and hopefully make a few friends! My life's dream is to work in television in New York, so it would be super rad to meet people involved in the industry who can teach me more about it. I want to explore as many interesting and historical neighborhoods in NY as I can, but quality is definitely more important than quantity, so if you have any significant areas of interest you'd like to take me to or direct me towards that would be awesome!

Interests

I'm trying to do some writing lately but planning this trip has been a little distracting, so I guess maybe writing doesn't count. I studied ballet off and on for several years (as an adult, so I'm not like, GOOD or anything, but I do love it) and I'm planning on seeing Misty Copeland perform Daphnis et Chloe during my visit. I like a lot of underground comics, I'm a big fan of R. Crumb and Daniel Clowes among others.

• writing
• ballet dancing
• cooking
• comics
• reading
• jazz
• mathematics
• film
• television
• museums

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Tom Jones, Duke Ellington, Django Reinhardt, Camel, George Gershwin, The Supremes, Loretta Lynn, Santo and Johnny, Debussy, Motorhead, Fats Waller, Blondie, Yves Montand, Jacques Brel

Movies & TV: Fantastic Planet, Bellflower, a buncha Woody Allen stuff, Ghost World, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, 30 Rock, Rick and Morty, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek (original series!!), Venture Bros, Strangers with Candy, the list goes on

Books: Cat's Cradle (really any Vonnegut), Sexus by Henry Miller, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, both Groucho and Harpo Marx's autobiographies, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Education of Hyman Caplan, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once choreographed Karina Smirnoff in a TV promo for Dancing with the Stars.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can try to teach you some basic ballet or tap dance, and I'd love to learn better French or more cooking skills. Or maybe I don't know what I want to learn yet, but I'll take whatever you've got!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can make a pretty mean meatloaf, and I'm a great audience.