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Overview

  • Theater producer in training, writer, fishmonger
  • West Ottawa Highschool
  • From Geneva, IL, USA
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About Me

I don't currently go to school, though I do a lot of work with local theater, primarily on the writing and production side, though performing is fun too sometimes. I also play guitar, bass, and violin, though I prefer to focus on the first two. I'm a big fan of surrealist/avant-garde art and interstitial literature (especially with a sci-fi twist to them). I really love the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and I also enjoy birds a lot.
Now I'm just gonna list more things I enjoy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I really like exploring, but I usually lack the financial capability. I haven't really been that far, so I have a pretty strong itch to go out and just be in unfamiliar places. I'm hoping to find someone who can give me good suggestions for places I would find of interest, but also to just make a friend, since ultimately, for me, that's the whole point of exploring.

Interests

  • dogs
  • birds
  • insects
  • arts
  • literature
  • theater
  • avant-garde art
  • photography
  • music
  • science
  • linguistics
  • film
  • sci-fi
  • space
  • surrealism
  • electric guitar
  • video editing
  • punk rock
  • space exploration
  • noise music
  • critical theory

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite bands: Sonic Youth, Protomartyr, Hum, Eels, Failure, Sparklehorse, Elliott Smith, Sleater Kinney, The Fall, Simon Joyner, and Fugazi.

Favorite books: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Valis by Philip K Dick, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Oblivion by David Foster Wallace, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, The Doors Of Perception by Aldous Huxley, and I'm currently reading Burning Chrome by William Gibson.

Favorite Movies: Brick, Blade Runner, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Solaris, Annihilation,
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Le Jetee, Mulholland Drive, really anything by David Lynch.

TV Shows: Cowboy Bebop, True Detective, Twin Peaks, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Handmaids Tale

Podcasts: Welcome To Night-vale, My Brother My Brother And Me, and Limetown.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

This past February I was able to get some things I wrote put up on a stage for the first time, which I also helped produce and write with a person who I consider to be my art soulmate.

What I Can Share with Hosts

If you play music, I'm always down to jam! I can help out with chores as well and I'm a good listener too.

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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