**Accepting Guests AFTER 09-23-2018**

Now: I'm currently visiting friends in Tampere before heading down to Helsinki!

Generally: I'm a musician. That's not a claim to facility, although I've spent many years working towards that: it's an acknowledgment that I'm a highly sensual being and, above all else, I am moved most intensely through music.

I make music, dance, garden, and teach.

I live on the prairie in a little off-grid strawbale cottage with my cat, Freyja (and will be accepting guests again as soon as I'm back state-side).

I believe puns to be the loftiest form of humor.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing helped to restore my faith in humanity. There is a vulnerability and intimacy in opening your home to a stranger which inspire moments of wonder and deep gratitude. I am so thankful for those friends who I've met and with whom broken bread in my adventures.

Interests

• photography
• tattoos
• tango
• piano
• electric guitar
• tango argentino
• circus arts
• cirque
• coffee roasting

Music, Movies, and Books

Novels/Novellas: Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Moby-Dick, Razor's Edge, Tortilla flat, Cannery Row, The Fox, Don Quixote, The Hobbit, The Wind in the Willows

Authors: Steinbeck, D. H. Lawrence, Marquez

Also, I glee over most anything fantasy/fable/fairy tale: Aesop, Grimm, Hans-Christian Anderson, Pullman, & Tolkien. Guilty pleasure: H.P. Lovecraft or Frank Herbert.

Graphic Novels: Bone, Fables, Sandman , From Hell, Y: The Last Man, Maus, Prophet, Locke & Key

Webcomics: PVP, The Abominable, Dinosaur Comics!!

Poets: Whitman, Catullus, Horace, Rilke, Bishop

[I have not yet read any of the Harry Potter heptalogy, though recently I have warmed up to the notion.]

Musical Works (which have inspired me most recently): Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Syrinx , Music for 18 Musicians, "Io Parto", Jeu de Robin et Marion, "Hé, Robin", Rite of Spring, Quartet for the End of Time, Le Merle Noir , The White Album, Airplane Over the Sea , IRM

Composers/Bands/Artists: Takemitsu, Messiaen, Debussy, Reich, Stravinsky, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen, Charlotte Gainsburg, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill, Séamus Ennis, Yo-yo Ma, Bela Fleck, Ian Anderson, Fleet Foxes, Marlon Williams, Bosnian Rainbows

Movies: Up (2009), How to Train Your Dragon (2010), Ratatouille (2007), Scent of Green Papaya (1993), Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring (2003), Metropolis (1927), Steamboat Bill Jr (1928), Kubo (2016)

Anything Buster Keaton, or Charlie Chaplin.

I absolutely love animation of all sorts. Also the surrealists.

Tellie: Futurama, No Reservations, Viceland, Rick & Morty

Directors: Julie Taymor, Arrabal, Jowdorosky, Jeunet, Miyazaki.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I wrote into Harcourt Brace Jovanovich to request the Reunion Scene.

I have a self-done tattoo on my ankle which I tell everyone is a ancient mystic symbol. It's not, it's from Dungeons & Dragons.

Teach, Learn, Share

Music. Dance (tango/swing). Cirque. Latin (lingua).

What I Can Share with Hosts

While I hope to spend almost every waking moment in Berlin dancing tango, I'm also happy to cook, juggle, play music, go adventuring outdoors (hiking, swimming, boarding) or adventuring indoors (museums, restaurants, board-game conventions)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States