Culture junkie living in Seattle, WA. I run my own company doing music promotion, working from home which has a lot of flexibility for travel; I also work at a few performance venues in town and at film + music festivals in the NW and beyond. Super into music and film. Grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland OH, went to college in North Carolina, spent most of my 20s in Brooklyn NY, and had a couple brief stretches living in Melbourne Aus and Nashville TN.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love to travel but my dumb chosen career path puts my income way below the poverty line - so cutting out major expenses for accommodations is the only way I can really make a trip work. Working in entertainment is fun but you don't get into it for the money these days.

I also think it's a much more valuable and enriching experience to spend time with locals, getting to know what life is really like in any given location, rather than turning a travel destination into a tourist playground to throw money at but not really engage with. I love the opportunity to marry a free place to sleep with the experience of getting to know a place on a deeper level through the eyes of those who live in and love it!

I've done a lot of unofficial couch surfing throughout my life - I've got a wide, international network of pals and I've almost never traveled to a place where I didn't have a friend's couch to sleep on. Finally making it official on this site in 2018 to try and hit some destinations that my social circle doesn't quite cover - first stop Maui in July!

Interests

• books
• literature
• music festivals
• film festivals
• music
• live music
• films
• film
• stand up comedy
• comedy

Music, Movies, and Books

bands: the mountain goats, the lucksmiths, why?, jason anderson, pomegranates, neutral milk hotel, pattern is movement, andrew wk, sufjan, casiotone for the painfully alone, ryan adams, john vanderslice, kimya dawson, childish gambino, fred thomas, eskimeaux, father john misty, hop along, phosphorescent.

filmmakers: wes anderson, noah baumbach, rian johnson, lynn shelton, taika waititi, darren aronofsky, richard linklater, joel and ethan coen, edgar wright, terry gilliam, wong kar-wai, danny boyle, pt anderson, michel gondry, christopher guest, mike leigh, hayao miyazaki, mark and jay duplass, quentin tarantino, kelly reichardt, hirokazu kore-eda, billy wilder, spike jonze, david wain, jordan peele. also the princess bride, the fall, the muppets, the graduate, harold and maude, most pixar, and rosencrantz and guildenstern are undead.

tv: home movies, adventure time, freaks & geeks, twin peaks, arrested development, flight of the conchords, the adventures of pete and pete, crazy ex-girlfriend, misfits, battlestar galactica, veronica mars, party down, master of none, detectorists, 30 rock, broad city, parks and rec, last week tonight, everything by ricky gervais, happy endings, louie, bored to death, community, the state, mr show, scrubs, look around you, pushing daisies.

authors: john steinbeck, dave eggers, kurt vonnegut, jonathan ames, michael chabon, john hodgman. also i love hamlet and the once and future king.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The comedian/author/actor/"PC" from the Apple ads/wonderful human John Hodgman once pulled me up onstage (after I'd worked the door for a series of his shows) to lead the crowd in singing a rousing rendition of Auld Lang Syne at me. Another version of this story is: I cried onstage in front of a hundred people at work one day

What I Can Share with Hosts

A friendly, positive, game-for-most-things attitude; new curious eyes through which to see your hometown; recommendations for music/movies/tv you'll probably love.

I like bringing little Seattle-themed gifts like local chocolate or trinkets from the Sub Pop store for hosts, and happy to buy ya dinner/drinks some night!

I'm a great driver, good with kids, a patient English teacher, strong writer, very clean, and able-bodied enough to handle most light-to-medium-strength menial tasks, if any of those skills are helpful to you!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Dominican Republic, New Zealand, Nicaragua

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, United States