CURRENT MISSION

Take the long way home.

ABOUT ME

I live and work in Boston though my wanderlust has been known to take me elsewhere. I studied abroad in Madrid last fall and got to utilize the joys of Couchsurfing, so now that I'm back in the states I'd love to help out CouchSurfers interested in coming to this fair city. CS was awesome in Europe, and although I don't know a ton about the scene in the US, I am eager to help it grow.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I surfed a bunch while in Europe and each time was excellent. I got to experience different sides of the cities I visited than I would have otherwise, and I think it made my short but sweet times all the more memorable. It's obvious that when someone shows you their favorite things in a city, you bond with it more than you would just herding around doing the typical tourist things. Now that I'm in the Boston area, I'd like to reciprocate.

Interests

I am into music, urban landscapes, people, places, and DIY (do it yourself) communities. I'm currently on the road working on a project called Folk to Folk, that my friends and I won a kickstarter for to make a documentary about modern folk music in America. We're embarking august 1 on a cross country roadtrip to visit, record, and interview bands and other folks in the scene.

I spend my time riding bikes to bodies of water.

• documentaries
• diy
• knitting
• music
• folk music

Music, Movies, and Books

Oh the pain of this question. I will inevitably leave out something extremely important.

Movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, High Fidelity, I'm Not There, Garden State, Can't Hardly Wait (yeah, that's right, I said it), Clueless, Almost Famous, American Beauty, The Squid and the Whale, The Last Waltz, Wristcutters: A Love Story, Dazed and Confused, Big Fish, Closer, Coffee and Cigarettes, V for Vendetta, Pulp Fiction, 40 Year Old Virgin, Annie Hall, The Graduate, Y Tu Mama Tambien

Music: Andrew Bird, Arcade Fire, Art Brut, Belle and Sebastian, The Black Keys, Brian Eno, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Air, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, The Cure, De La Soul, Aesop Rock, The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, The White Stripes (anything Jack White ever did), Dirty Projectors, Do Make Say Think, The Doors, Elliott Smith, Fleet Foxes, Gang of Four, Ghostland Observatory, Gogol Bordello, The Hold Steady, Counting Crows, Interpol, Iron and Wine, Janis Joplin, Joy Division, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Jimi Hendrix, King Khan and the Shrines, The Kinks, Langhorne Slim, Le Tigre, Led Zeppelin, Los Campesinos!, Lou Reed, The Low Anthem, Maceo Parker, Man Man, Metric, Matt and Kim, The Modern Lovers, The Mountain Goats, The National, Neutral Milk Hotel, Neko Case, The New Pornographers, New Order, Phoenix, Paper Bird, Pixies, R.E.M., Ra Ra Riot, Radiohead, The Replacements, Rilo Kiley, Regina Spektor, The Shins, The Silver Jews, Simon and Garfunkel, The Band, Sonic Youth, The Smiths, Stereolab, St. Vincent, Nirvana, The Beatles, Sun Kil Moon, Sufjan Stevens, Sunset Rubdown, Talking Heads, Tegan and Sara, The Who, The Thermals, Tom Waits, A Tribe Called Quest, The Velvet Underground, Stars, Warren Zevon, Wilco, Why?, Band of Horses, Wolf Parade, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, World Inferno, Yo La Tengo, Yeasayer

Books: Keep this one short and sweet. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead by Crystal Zevon, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, The Girl on the Fridge by Etgar Keret, Actual Air by David Berman, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, American Pastoral by Phillip Roth, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman, Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney, A People's History by Howard Zinn, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, White Noise by Don DeLillo.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I walked 2 days of the Camino de Santiago in Galicia this spring, and saw some of the most beautiful landscapes ever. Taking a five hour sleepless bus ride and getting off into the frigid night to walk up a mountain before sunrise has never been so rewarding.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you to knit! It's a very practical thing if you live in the Northeast during the winter...

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Israel, Netherlands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain, United States