CURRENT MISSION

To do what we do every night; try to take over the world!

ABOUT ME

Here's us:

Kriss and I started dating in March of '08 and we've been acting like an old married couple ever since. We like to argue with each other about the following topics: whether or not French authors are overrated, the origins of punk rock, and the proper way to raise children. We've both traveled a fair amount, and are looking to do a lot more in the future.

And now for little more in detail about the both of us.

Alex:
I was born in Manhattan, and grew up in a small suburb just outside of it. Needless to say, I came back as quickly as possible, and I'm living in Brooklyn now. I'm in my second year at Pace University. I had formerly been very interested in acting, however once I got into school I realized I was very passionate about cultural anthropology. I divide my spare time between punk shows, piano bars, and being a recluse watching classic movies on Netflix. My favorite music is a combination of classic punk, a little bit of indie music, standards singers like Judy Garland, and The World/Inferno Friendship Society which is a genre unto itself.

Kriss (as described by Alex):
Kriss is a badass dude with a badass goatee. He grew up in a number of places, namely Mexico, Peru, and several different neighborhoods across the five boroughs of New York (well, actually never in Staten Island...). He's a student at NYU, and though he's very interested in Middle Eastern politics, he also has a fondness for literature of any kind. He would probably list his favorite writers as Dostoevsky, Joyce, Borges, Gertrude Stein, and Milan Kundera. He's a lot more into the punk scene than I am, and has a pretty vast knowledge of bands in that respect. He's also into World/Inferno, which was how we met. Kriss' ideal evening would be skipping across a few state borders to go see one of his favorite bands, drinking the best wine on hand, spending time with a big crowd of his good friends, and coming home after the sun has already come up to fall asleep next to me.

PHILOSOPHY

Kriss:
If everything is in a state of flux, why not try and ride it?

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We're both open to taking in guests, or at the very least showing people around our fair city.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Kriss has some experience with CouchSurfing from the last time he was in Europe, however I am a complete greenhorn. However we are eager to start! Go ahead and drop us a line.

Intereses

Kriss:
Writing
Reading pretty much anything at hand.
Exposure to almost any form of music
A good meal
I like to travel for the sake of traveling.
The collecting of experiences.

• writing
• books
• literature
• acting
• festivals
• wine
• drinking
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• piano
• backpacking
• anthropology
• languages
• tours

Música, películas y libros

Kriss:

-Music:
The Adicts
Against Me!
Bad Brains
Balkan Beat Box
Bessie Smith
The Birthday Party
The Business
The Buzzcocks
Chopin
The Cramps
The Clash
The Death Set
Debout Sur Le Zinc
Django Reinhardt
Fanfare Ciocarlia
Fugazi
Igor Stravinsky
Japanther
Joy Division
Manu Chao
Modest Mouse
Nina Simone
The Pogues
Romanyi Rota
Screaming Females
Sergei Prokofiev
Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers
Ska-P
The Skatalites
The Smiths
Soophie Nun Squad
The Staggers
ThreePenny Opera
The Velvet Underground
Woods
World Inferno Friendship Society

I also have a large interest in Balkan bands, be it brass or strings, a lot of the music from that region in its various forms interest me.

-Movies:
Kurosawa
Michel Gondry
Woody Allen
Zatoichi Films
M
Lost in Translation
Kung Fu Hustle
Infernal Affairs
Run Lola Run
Trainspotting
Shaun of the Dead

-Book:
Dostoevsky - The Brother Karamazov
Chekhov - His Short Stories
James Joyce - Ulysses
Kundera - Pretty much all of his work
Isabel Allende - The Stories of Eva Luna
Gertrude Stein - How To Write
Borges - All of his short stories
John Donne
Sharon Olds
Mahmoud Darwish - Memory for Forgetfulness
Joseph Campbell - Hero of a Thousand Faces
Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightens of Being as well as his other novels.
I'll be updating this as I go along in my reading, this is what interest me overall though.

Alex:
Movies-
La Strada
Sunset Boulevard
The Warriors
Annie Hall
West Side Story
Bande a Part
Bonnie and Clyde

Music-
The Velvet Underground
The World/Inferno Friendship Society
Patti Smith
Jacques Brel
Judy Garland
Yann Tiersen
Edith Piaf
Yula Be'eri (and all associated projects)
Luminescent Orchestrii
Emilyn Brodsky
Against Me!
Mischief Brew
The Screamers
The Au Pairs
X-Ray Spex
Stephen Sondheim
Frederic Chopin
Franz Liszt

Books-
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Master and Margarita
The Secret Garden
The House of the Spirits
Stories of Eva Luna
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Portable Dottie Parker

Algo increíble que he hecho

Kriss:
My first time backpacking through Europe was in the summer of my Junior year in High School when I was 17. My friend backed out near the time for the flight so I went on my own with 1/3 of the provisions I thought I would have on hand.
I also work the annual Balkan festival hosted by Zlatne Ulste here in NYC and travel up and down the east coast regularly.
I also book bands here in NYC and try and organize tours for them along the cost. I've worked with the New York Howl since I was 15 and Nanuchka for the past few years.
I've been really involved in the NYC music scene in all of its levels since I was 14.

Alex:

I find pleasure in too many things to narrow it down to a list.

Enseña, aprende, comparte

Kriss:
I can teach Spanish and English as well as lit in both languages. I read a lot in both and always want to learn twice as much as I know. I'm going to start Arabic in the fall and with any hope after a few will pick it up. I can talk for a while about books and Latin America. I'm also handy around the house.

Alex:
All the skills I have are pretty ridiculous. Unless you want to learn the lyrics to every Stephen Sondheim song, or how to dissect the theories of Max Weber, I'm not all that useful.

Países que he visitado

Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom

Países en los que he vivido

Mexico, Peru, United States