Lisa Goese's Photo

Partially Verified

  • Payment verified
  • Phone not verified
  • Government ID not verified

Not Accepting Guests

  • Last login over 11 years ago

Join Couchsurfing to see Lisa’s full profile.

Overview

  • 12 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Spanish, Thai
  • 33, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • artist
  • B.A. in Studio Art, Macalester College
  • From in the suburban abyss right by Chicago, Illinois
  • Profile 100% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

write poems from behind my eyelids

ABOUT ME

I get approached by strangers a lot. I write down my dreams when I wake up. I enjoy finding the magic in the mundane.

PHILOSOPHY

"the only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

constantly seeking ways to subvert racism, classicism, heteropatriarchy, and complacency

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

enthusiastically!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I surfed for a few days in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with two other surfers. and I met up with fellow CSers in San Francisco and Singapore. I have hosted and surfed informally a whole lot--seriously fun times.

Interests

art, puppetry, experimental theatre/performance, dancing, adventures, radical resistance, playing, bodies, bicycles, questioning, books, drag, karaoke, dreams.

  • arts
  • books
  • poetry
  • performing arts
  • dancing
  • dining
  • reading
  • juggling
  • magic
  • music
  • karaoke

Music, Movies, and Books

anything from shoegaze to electronic to Thai pop to freak folk to queer rappers to 80s pop to indie shit.

directors: Alejandro Jodorowsky, John Waters, Hayao Miyazaki, Michel Gondry, David Lynch, Tim Burton. I also love Paprika, Pan's Labryinth, A Clockwork Orange, Amelie, and anything with claymation or stop-motion animation.

recently reading: poetry by Adrienne Rich, short stories by Octavia Butler

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

the aurora borealis, for a brief instant.
an elephant roaming city streets in Thailand.
a dance performed at sunrise under a bridge in Minneapolis.

Teach, Learn, Share

teach: I could do a tarot card reading for you. also I can juggle.

learn: I learn something from everyone I meet.

share: food, art, music, adventures, prophecies, stories, smiles, laughs, good juju.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Costa Rica, Italy, Malaysia, Panama, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Thailand, United States

Old School Badges

  • Pioneer Badge

Join Couchsurfing to see Lisa’s full profile.

My Groups