CURRENT MISSION

To see it all, and walk unafraid. To interact with others and experience different types of endeavors while being career-focused and artistic!

ABOUT ME

Easy-going, a bit shy at first, but really open to meeting new people and traveling more in the future. School-focused at present, but a musician/neuroscience nerd at heart. I can easily adapt to most surroundings and always enjoy learning about people's lives via storytelling.

PHILOSOPHY

"We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." - Carl Sagan

We are imperfectly, beautifully human, ripe to discover that we are part of the all, the biggest creative consciousness. The universe is within us and all around, and our minds create constellations of thought and interpersonal connection. Or to quote Dustin Hoffman in I Heart Huckabees, just do the blanket thing.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By engaging with others!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet, but eager to accrue some, alongside my best friend

Interests

Music, movies, neuroscience, psychology, food, audio production, podcasts.

• dining
• movies
• traveling
• podcasts
• music
• neuroscience
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

- Books: Master of Space & Time, Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Livability, American Gods, High Fidelity, Tropic of Cancer, Snow Country, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Snow Crash, The End of the Affair, A Simple Plan, The Road, Pride and Prejudice, Lolita, Franny & Zooey, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Of Grief & Reason.

- Movies: Paris, Texas, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Wet Hot American Summer, Before Sunset, The Conversation, After Hours, Lives of Others, Magnolia, Anchorman, Fearless, Broadcast News, The Apartment, Before Sunset, Lost In America, Badlands, In The Mood For Love, The Thing, Synecdoche New York, Manhattan, Blue Velvet, Adaptation, Barton Fink, Me You & Everyone We Know, Meek’s Cutoff, Happiness, A Serious Man, Bringing Up Baby, Mulholland Drive, Rushmore, Amelie, Waitress, Wages of Fear, Out Of Sight, La Strada, Harold & Maude, Take This Waltz, Away From Her, 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, Let the Right One In, Dead Ringers, Wonder Boys, Back To The Future, Georgia (1995), Chungking Express, I Heart Huckabees, The Future, Requiem For A Dream, All The Real Girls, Pump Up The Volume, Phantom of The Paradise, Rosemary's Baby, The Double Life of Veronique, Safe (1995), Beasts of The Southern Wild, pretty much any genre.

- Directors: Paul Thomas Anderson, Michel Gondry, Sam Raimi, Billy Wilder, Kelly Reichardt, Terrence Malick, John Cassavetes, David Gordon Green, The Coen Brothers, David Lynch, David Mamet, David Cronenberg, Todd Haynes, Michael Haneke, Sofia Coppola, Joe Dante, Wong Kar-Wai, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Hal Hartley.

- Shows: The State, In Treatment, Portlandia, Community, Spaced, Twin Peaks, The Wonder Years, Breaking Bad, Louie, Girls, Mad Men, Veronica Mars, Quantum Leap, Kids in The Hall, Gilmore Girls, Six Feet Under, Freaks and Geeks, Wonderfalls, Felicity, most things on PBS.

- Music: The Afghan Whigs, Nina Simone, Harry Nilsson, Tom Waits, Fiona Apple, Radiohead, Leonard Cohen, Sebadoh, Prince, The National, Brian Eno, Sarah Vaughn, Cat Stevens, The Replacements, Jon Brion, LCD Soundsystem, Frank Ocean, Peggy Lee, Why?, Bill Fay, Ani DiFranco, The Frames, Beach House, The Magnetic Fields, Wilco, Sleigh Bells, The Carpenters, Portishead, Rufus Wainwright, The Cars, Neutral Milk Hotel, ELO, Galaxie 500, Jens Lekman, Arcade Fire, Low, Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Andrew Bird, The Zombies, Yo La Tengo, John Coltrane, Peter Gabriel, Bill Fox, This Mortal Coil, Cocteau Twins, Paul Baribeau, The Cure, Talking Heads, My Bloody Valentine, Otis Redding, classical, movie scores.

- Food: Breakfast Skillets, Sandwiches (w/Avocado), Soup, Fruit, Veggies, Veggie Pizza, Mac & Cheese, Burritos, Pumpkin Pie, Pita Bread, Felafel, Banana Bread, Pancakes, Hummus, Potatoes, Peanut Butter, Ginger Ale, Ginger + Whiskey, Apple Cider, Craft Beer. A wise gal once said Garlic and Ginger is all you really need. I mostly eat veggies and fish but I’m more open to just about any cuisine especially the spicy kind, without any major restrictions.

- Podcasts: This American Life, My Brother My Brother and Me, You Made It Weird, Radiolab, NPR, WTF w/Marc Maron, Film Junk, Mental Illness Happy Hour, Jordan Jesse Go, The Tobolowsky Files, TEDTalks, The Pod F. Tompkast, Stuff You Missed In History Class, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me!, and I co-host Director’s Club.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Went on tour for a couple months by myself from here to Canada!