I am a 25 year old bookseller and aspiring filmmaker living in Oakland, California, who will be traveling in Japan for three months this spring. I have been to Japan once before, in 2012, and was stunned by the beauty of the place and the people I met in it. I can't wait to go back and learn more.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

A tight budget, an opportunity to practice a new language, and a desire to meet people and immerse myself more fully in a place.

Interests

Papermaking and bookmaking (printing, binding, etc.), experimental music and cinema, reading, philosophy, Japanese history and culture.

• culture
• beauty
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Filmmakers:

Takeshi Kitano
Koreeda Hirokazu
Kaneto Shindo
Michael Haneke
Tsai Ming-liang
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Chris Marker
Michael Snow
Peter Tscherkassky
Nathaniel Dorsky
Takashi Ito

Authors:

Roland Barthes
Thomas Bernhard
WG Sebald
Javier Marias
Ben Lerner
Don DeLillo
Rachel Kushner
Joan Didion
Lydia Davis
Ryu Murakami

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Using special audio equipment to listen to radio sounds being beamed in from the ionosphere in the cave of Pherecydes, in Syros, Greece.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Greece, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States