CURRENT MISSION

To fill in the map, between performances and rrrrreally real lyfe

ABOUT ME

performer/maker/teacher/etc. --- i've done a good deal of hosting and being hosted as a patron and producer of the arts. my skills as a guest and a host are sharp. I am a DIT(ogether) enthusiast and i try to stay resourceful and useful to the world as best i can. i live in a large collective space in Detroit --- and have lived in lots of weird and fantastic places with large numbers of people in the states. i try to stay busy working on creative projects, very willing to help out, and oftentimes effusively respectful of others --- i do my best to make sure i'm an incredibly easy and worthwhile guest ---

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

been offering up my couches for years now to bands, poets, artists, filmmakers and other surfers --- i'd like to continue through this community as much as folks demand (living in Detroit now///lived in Chicago, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, etc. prior) --- otherwise, maybe come and visit ya'll? Trying to get out of America as often as possible.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

again, i've traveled a good deal as a performer and surfed many couches. i've hosted events (readings/bands/films/etc.) in various homes throughout the past ten years or so and put people up innumerable times throughout. having lived in bigger places with more folks, i have had room-mates throughout the years who have maintained an active couchsurfing account and as a house we hosted travelers of all sorts from fun-loving party-people to research chemists, documentary film-makers, etc. who stayed for extended periods of time working on projects in the city (chicago at the time) or near --- sometimes the stay would resembled something of an unofficial 'residency', which was awesome. i would love to meet and talk about it, esp with those who have hosted a lot.... either way, this i believe gives me a foot forward on being an engaging and respectful guest --- having been through a number of weird enough experiences with folks in my own place, that i couldn't bear to do that that unto others. you know what i'm saying?!?!

Interests

everything honestly. sound (currently digging out old industrial and afrobeat records when i get to sifting --- but seriously wide taste). sights (from photo to street art/culture-jamming/collage/illustration), food (local, organic, slow, etc.), words (we host readings at our house currently and perform a good deal in the US), book-making, beer and cider brewing, fermentation, collectivism, zine culture, permaculture, gardening, tiny-house movement, foraging, diy/dit, homesteading, pedagogy, polyamory, paleo-contact theory (ancient astro --- fascinating!), poetics, performance, film, gender studies, political theory, cultural studies, sexuality, spirituality, and on and on.

arts, science (although mostly just in theory), politics, etc. i can have a conversation about anything... i'm a 'yearning for learning' type of person, i guess.

• arts
• culture
• books
• performing arts
• street art
• documentaries
• illustrations
• diy
• dining
• beer
• partying
• gardening
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• homesteading
• cultural studies
• teaching
• gender studies
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

oh just for fun, i know it is sort of hammy to make a list like this --- but i sometimes like to use these to spread the word about rad stuff --- really into womyn killing everything right now...

soundz - light asylum, jenny hval, EMA, grimes, tune-yards, m.i.a., nitty scott, mc. pslam one, jean grae, alas alak alaska, dark dark dark, angel haze, bikini kill, pj harvey, tori amos, fiona apple, kate bush, mazzy star, the raincoats, christeene, peaches --- i dig old edm and industrial stuff like throbbing gristle, test dept., einsturzende neubauten, skinny puppy, ministry, nine inch nails, etc. and techy metal/scramz shit like coalesce, an isle ate her, every time i die, lord snow, walls of jericho, the end, etc. 80's shit like devo and cyndi lauper and gary numan --- 60's and 70's shit like jefferson airplane, joni mitchell, zepplin, credence -- jazz from zorn to coltrane to simone --- motown forever --- THE SUPREMES! old folks and blues. afro-beat... sublime frequencies, electronica like bibio, aphex twin, etc. hip-hop from B.I.G. to back pack shit like aesop rock, etc. RAD BANDS IN CINCINNATI --- smut, leggy, fenrir, divtech, soft peaks, kate wakefield, tweens, jennifer simone, evolve, dreams in hell, boltcutter, swimteam, etc.

words ---- mostly poems now-a-days --- juliana spahr (all year long), chelsea tadeyeske, cynthia spencer, cathy wagner, patricia lockwood, aase berg, brenda coultas, jennifer karmin, laura goldstein, kathleen rooney, joyelle mcsweeney, hannah weiner, sylvia plath, edna st. vincent millay, dorothy parker, mina loy, cathy park hong, djuna barnes, sarah fox, caryl pagel, jennifer karmin and more.

also essay --- bell hooks, naomi klein, laura kipnis, jack halberstam, noam, etc. lots on gender/sexuality, environmental and political journalism, biographies, conspiracy, performance theory, etc.

omg. you've had enough... apologies.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Iceland

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, Scotland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States