CURRENT MISSION

Living well.

ABOUT ME
I'm traveling Asia after spending two years teaching English in Busan, South Korea.

I graduated with a degree in film, I'm a feminist/womanist, fond of being outside when it's nice, DIY, interested in almost anything.

I'm a handy artistic/musical intellectual and empath.

I'm good at asking questions of people.

PHILOSOPHY:

Treat everyone you meet like a traveler.

Be truly honest as often as possible, make/do beautiful things, be deeply happy, waste as little as possible (opportunities, food, time). Though I'm trying to also be more flexible with this. Sometimes wasting time is ok.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've surfed.
I've hosted.
I've traveled.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I once surfed two nights in Hilo, Hawai'i with a bunch of pirate vikings who, on the night we arrived, were simultaneously rewiring their house and having a party. They had a gangly puppy and made their own mead. BALLIN'

Interests

Dreams, making earrings, trees, fake mustaches, whiteboard drawings, sending/receiving mail.

Art, building healthy community spaces, practical special effects in film, local food, gender issues, alternative energy sources.

• arts
• theater
• film making
• diy
• dining
• cooking
• baking
• partying
• gardening
• shopping
• hiking
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:

My favorite genre is science fiction. (favorite sci-fi director: Cronenberg.)(favorite of his fillms: The Fly, Dead Ringers)

My other favorite genre is...rom coms. Specifically, girls going undercover and surviving with their wits. (Ever After, Never Been Kissed, Miss Congeniality)

Other than that, I love quirky/twee family dramas.

I also love New Korean Cinema. (Vengeance trilogy, Lee Chang-Dong: Peppermint Candy, Oasis)

I also really love auteurs with a lot of style - Bertolucci, Fellini, Godard, Miyazaki, Wes Anderson

Tampopo, The Piano, Aliens, Where the Wild Things Are, A Woman Under the Influence, The Fifth Element, Colossus: The Forbin Project, The Royal Tenenbaums, OldBoy, Amelie, Amarcord, Harold and Maude, PlayTime, Traffic, Mon Oncle, 28 Days Later, MirrorMask, Il Conformista, Bande à part (Band of Outsiders), Fellini-Satyricon, The Triplets of Belleville, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Matrix, A. I., Goemul/The Host, Fight Club, The Holy Mountain, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, Apocalypse Now, The Big Chill, Howl's Moving Castle, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Buster Keaton, Buster Keaton, BUSTER KEATON!! Time of the Wolf.

I like films.

Music: Old-timey radio, Ella Fitzgerald and other jazz divas, Matt Elliott, Animal Collective, Yo La Tengo, Nouvelle Vague, MIA, Portishead, Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Devendra Banhart, CocoRosie, Beck, Smog, SSLYBY, The Books, Joanna Newsom, Jolie Holland, Burial, Unkle, The Avalanches, Anticon (Subtle, Why?, clouddead, etc), Röyksopp,
LIVE JAZZ/FUNK/DANCE-Y TYPE MUSIC - Rubblebucket! Zzzz, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Books: Ender's Game, Ishmael, Demian, Cat's Cradle, Howards End, Depraved and Insulting English, survival handbooks, The Swiss Family Robinson, Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy Tales, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, picture books -- The Snowman, Tuesday, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, DINOTOPIA, The Joy of Sex.

Imagined worlds.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

On O'ahu, off the Makapu'u lookout, there's this side-hike to a semisecret group of blowholes called the Dragon's Nostrils. It necessitated a 400-foot vertical scramble to the beach, where there was this lava bench with these beautiful little rock pools.....the Dragon's Nostrils were scary, though, especially because I went by myself. It seriously sounded like a large beast underground, breathing and periodically getting angry. The whole mountainside looked like Mordor, too--no vegetation on the windward side. Eerie. Awesome.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know a bit about filmmaking and storytelling. If you'd like to make a movie, I'm your right-hand woman...

I worked three years in a scene shop, building sets for plays in my school's theater department. Thus, I know how to use shop tools - saws, drills, staple guns, along with the basics of welding.

I'd like to learn more about food production and where it comes from and how it's made - cooking, baking, gardening.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Canada, China, Iceland, Japan, Puerto Rico, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Korea, United States

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