Violist, composer, antifascist, socialist, bisexual, student of life
Arlington > Springfield > St. Louis > Richmond > Brooklyn > Manhattan > Brooklyn > Queens; Brooklyn

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I used to host in Richmond back int the couchsurfing.org days, and go to couchsurfing parties in DC, RVA, Norfolk. Came for the community. Hope it's as cool as I remember it.

Current mission: Syracuse, NY

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: M.H. & His Orchestra, SHAED, Toxic Moxie, Windowseat, the Mountbouain Goats, Pogo, of Montreal, mewithoutYou, Bowerbirds, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Antonio Vivaldi, A Silver Mt. Zion, Joanna Newsom, Camille Saint-Saens, Jacques Brel, Arrah and the Ferns, Manheim Steamroller, Megafaun, Dennis Brown, Django Reinhardt, Georges Bizet, Philip Glass, The Kronos Quartet, BOUNCYDUCK, the Dismemberment Plan, They Might Be Giants, Vandaveer, Kaki King, Larry and His Flask, Soko, Aesop Rock, Bishop Allen, Brian Scary & The Shredding Tears, Fats Waller, George Gershwin, Owen Palette, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, The Books, Alela Diane, Caribou, France Gall, Tom Waits, Tin Hat Trio, Black Eyes, Yeasayer, Boards of Canada, Dave van Ronk, Don Ellis, Hans Otte, Steve Reich, Crystal Castles, Len Lye, Etienne Charles, Trombone Shorty, Oshwa, Tarfu

Movies & TV: Brick, The Producers (with Zero Mostel & Gene Wilder), Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Young Frankenstein, Rhinoceros, The Silence of the Lambs, Requiem for a Dream, Pi, The Blues Brothers, The Princess Bride, Highlander (movies & show, they're f'ing ridiculous & I love them), The Big Lebowski, Bullit, The Great Escape, La Haine, And Now for Something Completely Different, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Bis ans Ende der Welt, Miller's Crossing, The Goonies, The Pink Panther (Sellers), Casablanca, The Grand Budapest Hotel, You Can't Take It With You, the Carry On films.

Books: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life the Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, Mostly Harmless, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, Night Watch, The Last Hero, Sick Puppy, The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby, The Book of the New Sun, The Last Unicorn, Requiem for a Dream, Last Exit to Brooklyn, On the Road, Visions of Cody, The Book of the Dun Cow, The Last Legends of Earth, Dracula, Big Trouble, V for Vendetta, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Last Unicorn, The Voyage of the Bassett, Mort, Catch-22, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Stranger, No Country for Old Men, Against the Day, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Visions of Cody, Ender's Game, and anything by P.G. Wodehouse or Terry Pratchett. I devour short stories and think the best one ever written may be The Comforts of Home by Flannery O'Connor. I have read every single ACDoyle Sherlock Holmes story.

On my list to read are Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, The Stand, The Traveler, Speaker for the Dead, Battle Royale by Koushun Takami, Watchmen, Misery, Slaughter-house Five, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Life of Pi, The Godfather, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, All the King's Men, Coming Up for Air, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, The Rum Diaries, Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art, The Sound and the Fury, The Tunnel, The Man Who Was Thursday, Little Children

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I composed and recorded original music for Body Tides a collaboration with choreographer Billy Blanken of Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre, and the artist Lauren Woods, which was staged at the Plaxall Gallery (now LIC ARTS), video of which has been displayed in arts installations as far away as Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Gyeonggi-do, Korea. full performance video: https://vimeo.com/805269539 music video: https://vimeo.com/344915253

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you Irish tunes if you like to learn music by ear, and could give introductory fiddle lessons if you are interested.

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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