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  • 107 references 47 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Welsh
  • 39, Female
  • Member since 2007
  • Musician and Artist
  • Endless Fascination
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About Me

Jamaican-American, artist, musician, wanderer.... That pretty much sums it up :)

I love exploring cultures and meeting people. Traveling has provided some of the coolest experiences and stories that I am sure will continue to enrich my life. Now, I'm living in Valencia, Spain and wandering the world playing blues festivals.

I am a vegan, but don't worry about feeding me - I'm pretty good about looking up restaurants that I want to try or feeding myself.

PHILOSOPHY

Let love be your only debt. If you love others, you have done all that the Law demands.

CURRENT LIFE HAPPENINGS

Lately I've been focusing on playing these blues festivals, and finding other small local gigs and busking as I wander.
Fixing up DanDann.me and my livestream at Twitch.tv/DanDannLive are a couple other current projects

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I pretty much tell every cool person I meet about Couchsurfing. Since I joined (way back in the way back), I've inducted friends, family, co-workers and strangers. CS just makes traveling... better.

FACT OF (my) LIFE:

You PROBABLY met or are meeting me through some haphazard last minute post/request or I just showed up somewhere. I am admitting it - HERE - I AM ADMITTING IT! 80% (aka 99%) of the things I do are last minute. If I find out that there's a super cool shop in your town or something, you'll probably get an email from me tonight asking if we can hang out tomorrow. It's a fact. Or you'll meet me at a potluck in Zimbabwe or something - note that I probably found out about the potluck the night before and CS requested someone, or slept in the airport cause my 'last minute surfing' is TOO last minute for most normal people.

On the other hand, I've had several super cool people drop me a line saying that they were already IN town - some of the coolest people I've hosted - maybe because we have so much in common....

SOMEtimes I plen things
- see there, I cant even spell it right... p-l-a-n. maybe if i start using it in sentences i'll figure out how to do it.
I suppose I dont really mind - it keeps my life interesting... and SUPER kudos to you if you don't mind either! Maybe I'll come visit you...

So um.. is 3 hours enough lead time?

Interests

I love to love things.

I heart Capoeira, Attachment Parenting, backpacking, singing, fruit, traveling, getting overly excited about things, playing with Doug Graham, new cultures, wiping out produce stands, doing handstands, photography, caimito, watching my brother's films, cuddling, talking about ANYTHING with my dad, large families, daikon radish, ROAD TRIPS, mamey, nude beaches, making food with Mike, being in my brother's films, last minute travels, learning languages, fruit hunting, singing, canistel, playing monopoly over the phone for 3 months, Kendalltime, jackfruit, tiny houses, 811 raw foodism, finding fun things to do for free, digging, ecstatic worship, duolingo, painting, muay thai, durian, AthensOhio, adoption, LanguageTransfer, theater, 80/10/10, kakuro, babies, thrift shopping, mangoes, peanut butter...

Oh and writing music :D

My mission for this year is to cut more albums and finish finishing my website, DanDann.me

  • arts
  • culture
  • writing
  • singing
  • theater
  • photography
  • dancing
  • capoeira
  • dining
  • potluck
  • raw food
  • vegetarian
  • vegan
  • shopping
  • thrifting
  • movies
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • painting
  • sudoku
  • music
  • jazz
  • guitar
  • blues
  • backpacking
  • hunting
  • surfing
  • boxing
  • languages
  • road trips
  • beaches
  • last minute travel
  • videogames
  • busking
  • korean
  • japanese
  • jazz music
  • fusion
  • welsh

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES

La Belle Verte, Birth as We Know It, The Joneses, Across the Universe, Whip It (cause Poo made it), Earthlings, Fido, most things by Almodovar, Finding Neverland, Bella, Children of Men, The Darjeeling Limited, *The Fall*, Chicago, Big Fish, Amelie, The Royal Tenenbaums, Chocolate (the Thai one), I Heart Huckabees, Edward Scissorhands, My family and other animals, L'auberge Espagnole (Casa de Locos), Snatch, City of Lost Children, Amelie, Delicatessen, Girl on the Bridge, El Labrinto del Fauno, Little Miss Sunshine, The Jungle Book, What the Deaf Man Heard, Thirteen, ***La Belle Verte***, Evita, Dirty Rotten Schoundrels, Opening the Door West (cause Poo's in it), Chocolate Wars, Read My Lips, Say Anything, Dead Poets Society, The Road Virus Heads North (cause Poo made it), The Incredibles, *Josie and the Pussycats*, Frathouse Massacre (cause Poo's in it and made it), Girlfight, Two Brothers, **Forks Over Knives**-any and everything by Darell Day

MUSIC

Cocorosie, Anja Garbarek, Natalie Cole, Sad Kermit, Gabby LaLa, Mirah, Miles Davis, Thievery Corporation, Norah Jones, Audrey Assad, *MACACO*, Jeremy Riddle, *India.Arie*, Portishead, Bob Schneider, Misty Edwards, *Ella Fitzgerald*, Les Luthiers, Brian & Jenn Johnson, DanDann (she's pretty cool), **Takenobu**, Postal Service, Lamb of God (bet you didnt expect that between PS and Bjork...), Bjork, Outkast, The Phantods, Nichole Nordeman, Frank Sinatra, Julie Meyer, Lamb, Llorca, The Beetles, the Muppets, The Carpenters, Chris Tomlin, Showtunes, Lauryn Hill (unplugged n all), Opera Babes, Mute Math, **David Crowder**, Gotan Project, Cafe Tacuba, Balkan Beat Box (.com), James Blake

BOOKS

Bridge to Terebithia, *****The Continuum Concept*****, Raw in Ten Minutes, Lifestyle Evangelism by Joseph C. Alrich, Fast Food Nation, **Attachment Parenting by Katie Allison Granju**, ***If Caterpillars Can Fly So Can I by Alvin Day***, **Learning All the Time by John Holt**, **The Ecstasy of Loving God by John Crowder**, The Vital Touch, **Touching: the Human Significance of the Skin by Ashley Montagu**, Blue Like Jazz, Touch by Tiffany Fields, Christian Unschooling, anything by Lucy Lennox, Infant Massage, Borrowing Blue by Lucy Lennox, SELAH, The Healing Gifts of the Spirit, 80/10/10 by Dr. Graham, The Complete Tightwad Gazette, **The Shack**, The Ultimate Treasure Hunt by Kevin Dedmon, Going Commando by Kyleen Neuhold, **Mothering Magazine**, The Happy Intercessor by Beni Johnson, The Compleat Mother-any and everything by John Holt, Dr. Douglas Graham, Ashly Montagu, Dr. Sears and Alvin Day

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

• Attended an Unassisted Home Birth in 2015
• Did a one handed handstand in a one strap dress....
• Worked with Dr. Doug Graham
• Joined in the artistic revelry that is mealtime with other 811rvs
• Wiped out mango stands in Costa Rica
• Experienced 5 person massage piles in the woods

Teach, Learn, Share

I can help with Spanish or English, travel ideas (or any ideas really. I am an idea generator), and uh... stuff.

Old Soapboxes:
Bits about Natural Birthing, Breastfeeding, Attachment Parenting, Unschooling, Raw Foods, Natural Hygiene - aka Everything that has to do with living more closely with this earth that was entrusted to us; the way things were supposed to work.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Music. I can share lots of music. And I'm good with platonic cuddles n such.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Costa Rica, England, France, Ireland, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain, Thailand, United States

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