CURRENT MISSION

Keep my freedom and use it well.

ABOUT ME

What I am: a Louisiana kid, native to small towns and the woods and creeks, restless, ambitious. A bit self-conscious at first but pretty silly once I get comfortable, and that takes less and less time these days.

What I do: I'm always trying to learn something new. I spend a lot of time in the theatre, acting or directing or writing or producing. All told that means I'm sometimes too busy to be a great tour guide, but every day is different. I love creative relationships, whether it's someone I'm collaborating with on a project or just the kind of friend who likes singing or drawing comics or creating acrobatic formations or telling stories together.

I can listen, cook ridiculously healthy vegetarian food, give a good back massage, learn or teach a language, figure out where words come from, or occasionally put words to things that are hard to describe. I also love singing, though I could be a lot better at it.

Besides the basics, I'm a good tour guide to the pockets of nature in New Orleans, the best trees to climb, the biking routes, the theater scene and to a lesser degree arts in general, and the LGBT scene. I will probably also drag you to karaoke if you're here on a Tuesday.

PHILOSOPHY

Be present, give, get at the truth, laugh, help others laugh, relax, do things that make it hard to relax, confront the unknown. It gets a little introspective sometimes, but just give me a friendly shove and I'll come back to here and now.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Had my first surfing experience recently after hosting for a while-- I've settled again, but soon I'll be traveling for work and hope to get more great experiences that way. And I talk it up wherever possible.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My first big trip alone also happened to be my first time surfing, and I immediately felt at home. I was sad to be stuck in a hotel for the bulk of my stay! As a host, I hope to help people get an insider view of the city, not just its tourist side.

Interests

Theater- doing it and seeing it and talking way too much about it.

Climbing trees, biking, getting out in the sun or the woods, how good water tastes when you're working hard. Exercise, body work and the rules behind them.

Music- people who know more about it than I do, harmony, singing, improvising.

Languages- how they work, how they change, learning them, using them to write and understand the world better.

Theorizing about What's Going On in the World.

LGBT rights.

Being overambitious. I want to build my life around all of these things.

Untying knots.

• arts
• writing
• singing
• theater
• acting
• lgbt rights
• dining
• cooking
• vegetarian
• exercise
• comics
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• karaoke
• cycling
• hunting
• surfing
• rock climbing
• languages
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Loreena McKennitt, Dispatch, Carbon Leaf, Dead Can Dance, Mozart, Coldplay, Final Fantasy soundtracks, vocal harmony, Mago de Oz, Cajun music, Deep Forest, folk music from nearly anywhere, Joe Hisaishi, Rachmaninoff (esp. the Vespers), the cello

Books: The Mahabharata (William Buck's retelling), The Vakhtangov School of Stage Art, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Diane Duane

Plays: Bobrauschenbergamerica, The Tempest, You Can't Take It with You, The Invention of Love, the works of Carlo Gozzi, Arcadia, Hunter Gatherers, the works of Charles Mee

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Nothing gets me like synchronicity. In the middle of a class in high school, a friend and I, sitting side by side but facing away from each other in separate conversations, turned to face one another of a single will, placed our hands palm to palm, and slowly raised them into the air. We're both in the theater now, hunting synchronicity daily.

Amazed every time I sing in harmony.

Teach, Learn, Share

Tarragon is the single best thing to add to eggs (aside from Tony's Creole Seasoning).

Countries I’ve Visited

Japan, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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