Hi, I’m brand new to this couchsurfing. I guess I’m an aging punk with boatloads of openmindedness and a tinge of bitter, saltiness (but that comes out in humor, right?). I live with 2 lovely cats and am always itching to travel. I work booking live music at a smaller venue in Madison and also run live sound and bartend.
I mostly book punk, metal and experimental stuff but also run the gamut of almost anything.
I’m a late night person, hence the job(s) but am also respectful and quiet and adaptable, especially when traveling.
I’m interested in the usual cliches: traveling more, seeing the world, tasting new foods, but also meeting genuinely funny people, meeting people who know how to balance the line between having their shit together and letting completely go. I’m needing to let completely let go without falling over a cliff.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I’m very interested in traveling more and this seems like the most cost affordable way to go about doing so, on such a limited budget. I also just moved into a townhouse with a couch bed an extra bathroom and now have the space to take on guests!

Interests

• animals
• dancing
• flowers
• movies
• music
• atheism
• astronomy
• science
• death
• food
• learning languages
• vegetarian food
• learning new things
• museums
• comedy
• equality
• agnosticism
• seeing the world
• diversity
• knowledge sharing
• punkrock
• living in the moment
• funny people
• wit
• death grips
• living on the edge
• dead people

Music, Movies, and Books

this will take a while to fill out, as I don’t have the best memory... but, at the top of my head:
I’m an enormous music and movie nerd yet my mind goes blank!

MUSIC: Brian Eno (pre-ambient); Roxy Music (only w/Brian Eno); The Kinks; MC5; Miles Davis; Butthole Surfers; Scratch Acid; Eric Satie; Igor Stravinsky; Red Army Chorus; Bad Brains; Everly Brothers; Psychic TV; Suppression; Pink Floyd; Harry Nilsson; Buck Owens; US Maple; Dead Rider;Funkadelic/Parliament; Ohio Players; Love; Stooges; Black Sabbath; Ramones; Donovan; Beatles; Beach Boys; Lefty Frizzell; Loretta Lynn; Zombies; Childish Gambino; Richard Swift; Public Enemy; Pere Ubu; Swans; Thelonious Monk; Velvet Underground; 13th Floor Elevators; George Jones; Merle Haggard; Lee Morgan; Sonny Rollins; Jesus Lizard; John Cale; Prince; Otis Redding; The Residents; Can; Andrew Bird; Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guébrau; Bill Callahan; Buzzcocks; Webb Pierce; Marty Robbins; Sonny Sharrock; The Monks... (lemme get back to this one!); ...

MOVIES: Wages of Fear; Dog Day Afternoon; The Conversation; Goodfellas; Mean Streets; Night of the Iguana; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe; Easy Rider; Repoman; Sophie’s Choice; The Shining; The 400 Blows; Paths of Glory; Mikey & Nickey; all Cassavettes! ...

BOOKS: Catch-22; Journey to the End of the Night; Slaughterhouse-Five; Mother Night; Sophie’s Choice; All Quiet on the Western Front, One Hundred Years of Solitude; one Flew over The Cuckoos Nest; Geek Love...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

When I was 20, I signed on to assist a team of eye surgeons in the Philippines who were there to remove cataracts from indiginent people. I had absolutely no experience but after one day of training, I scrubbed in and acted as OR tech for the surgeon, handing him the instruments., irrigating the eyeball....
it was a truly remarkable experience.

Teach, Learn, Share

I’m most interested in experiencing the joy that is sharing the human experience with others, especially strangers. That may sound cliche but I am sincere in this endeavor. Being a bartender for many many years has taught me that not reaching out to strangers limits your world immensely. Anyone who works in the hospitality industry should know this (bartenders, cab drivers, etc). This is a big part of what excites me about traveling, and, really, living. No matter how small, we each can learn a little bit from one another. Ech, that is cliche!! But so true.

What I Can Share with Hosts

This one I may have to re-write as I am new to this. What I can say is that I am very polite, respectful, neat and can roll with what comes at me. I am kind, hopefully funny and would love to share my culture with any host.
Good conversation and a deep interest in learning about you and your culture.

Countries I’ve Visited

Mexico, Philippines, South Africa