CURRENT MISSION

TBA

ABOUT ME

thoughtfully impulsive when it comes to travel. Will eat anything, but i'm overly fond of cartilage, rubbery bits and raw items.

PHILOSOPHY

live like you mean it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My partner and I have met so many amazing people while traveling who have shown us kindness and shared their lives and homes with us. We would like to do a little bit of the same with other travelers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

most of it has been staying at friends' of friends' couches.

Interests

The back alleys and less-well-known paths around a city; local delicacies; trains; bicycles; sidewalks.

In addition to travel stuff, I also like hiking, camping, the outdoors and driving nonstop (I want to be a trucker when I get old(-er)). Art, museums, architecture, photography and design all rank high on my list. I enjoy good coffee, talking about current events, cultural relativity and literature. I adore sustainability, modernity and education. Less geeky interests include movie screenings, picnics, concerts and music of all kinds, laughing at pop culture, sarcasm, black humor and hyperbole, running my bicycle into inanimate objects, riding my moped through my neighborhood, and watching the kinds of movies 14-year-old boys who love muscle cars and police chases also enjoy.

• arts
• culture
• literature
• architecture
• design
• photography
• concerts
• education
• coffee
• running
• movies
• traveling
• cars
• music
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• camping
• teaching
• emergency services
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The "Golden Age" of Mexican cinema; black humor; French and Spanish film. Music: Mexican trios; anything post-punk; bossa nova; '80s new wave and industrial.

If you have time to read, then here's a more compete list.
Movies:
igby goes down, american beauty, all about my mother, all about eve, talk to her, amores perros, volver, la hija del canibal, memento, everybody's famous, tsotsi, le grand voyage, ma vie en rose, breakfast on pluto, mysterious skin, brick, baxter, city of lost children, grindhouse (yes: grindhouse), the life aquatic of steve zissou, the royal tenenbaums, cecil b. demented, pi, l'enfant, dancer in the dark, run lola run, girl with the dragon tattoo, the million dollar hotel, my neighbors the yamadas, empire records, reality bites, lost in translation, amelie, delicatessen, la mala educación, no man's land, SLC punk!, (500) days of summer, the lookout, paradise now, grave of the fireflies, thin red line, L' Auberge espagnole, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the machinist, piedras, my own private idaho, dare mo shiranai, rashomon, yojimbo, ladri di biciclette, national velvet, anything that has maria felix, cantinflas or pedro infante in it.

Music:
Things that are or intersect Joy Division, The Cure, Love and Rockets, Nine Inch Nails, The Creatures, PJ Harvey, The Cranes, Múm, LCD Soundsystem, The Faint, Interpol, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Placebo, Explosions in the Sky, Suicide, The Jam, Holly Golightly, Tool, Los Panchos, Cafe Tacuba, Aterciopelados, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, The Doors, Astrud Gilberto, Yo-Yo Ma, Dvorak, Mulatu Astatke

Books:
Neuromancer; Catch-22; Longitude; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Infinite Jest; A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; We So Seldom Look on Love; On Beauty and Being Just; Pablo Neruda's memoirs; La Portentosa Vida de la Muerte (1792 ed.), Stranger in a Strange Land; 2001; The Fountainhead; Skinny Legs and All; A Hundred Years of Solitude; Wyndham Lewis' Blast 1; The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution; Body in Pain; On Beauty and Being Just; Kiss of the Spider Woman; Beyond Culture; The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age; Multicultural Manners; The Book and the Body; General Theory of Love; Symposium; Confucius' First Ten Books; the "Werkbund Exhibition Paris 1930: Living in a High-Rise" booklet; Berlin: New Architecture; The New Architecture and the Bauhaus; Architecture, Mysticism and Myth; Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto (1909); Lord of the Flies; Genealogy of Morals; Thinking Architecture; Nikola Tesla's biography.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Can't decide on just one, so — hike up mountains and volcanoes. Drive 10,000 miles in 12 days and see 10 U.S. states. I sew all my Halloween costumes.

Teach, Learn, Share

Uhm, let's see: Ziplock bags and a Swiss Army knife can never be understimated.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Belize, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Mexico, United States

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