CURRENT MISSION

Heading to Portugal and Croatia in July 2011!

ABOUT ME

I'm a science journalist by day, a musician by night. I'm laid back, friendly, adventurous, and comfortable in lots of different situations.

PHILOSOPHY

You only live once, so get it while you can.

Interests

Indie Radio, music, science, armchair philosophy, climbing rocks, cooking you dinner, fresh herbs, wondering the collective fate of all living things. I also fly airplanes and save kittens.

• cooking
• flying
• music
• hiking
• rock climbing
• journalism
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Drag City Records, Little Dragon, Stereolab, Stereo Total, Chairlift, Sufjan Stevens, Daft Punk, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Mum, Sigur Ros, Jim O'Rourke,The Magnetic Zeros, Fleet Foxes, Tom Waits, Iron and Wine, Of Montreal, Kings of Convenience, Bobby Conn, Nintendo, Belle and Sebastian, Elliott Smith, The Sea and Cake, Ryoji Ikeda, Smithsonian Folkways, Scnheider TM, American Analog Set.

Books: The Essentials of Cooking, Einstein's Dreams, Still Life, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, 100 Years of Solitude, The Way Things Work, Harry Potter (all of them)...

Movies: Tron (the original AND the sequel), Donnie Darko, City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Underground (Emir Kusturica), Dr. Strangelove, Being John Malkovich, Purple Rain, Amelie, The Royal Tenenbaums, North By Northwest, The Thomas Crown Affair, Lost in Translation, Blade Runner, Goonies, anything by the Cohen Brothers, Jim Jarmusch, or Michel Gondry.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Seeing the earth from 5000 feet while flying a small plane. Hiking in Patagonia. Parading in New Orleans. Interviewing Nobel Prize-winning physicists. Seeing the places that inspired the Icelandic Sagas. Hearing every mosque in Fez, Morocco start their call to prayer at 4 am. Also - Staying in your town!

Teach, Learn, Share

I will cook you an amazing dinner. Or teach you how to build a synthesizer. Or maybe how to play the banjo.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Canada, Croatia, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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