I’m a curious, open-minded person who values connection, honesty, and shared experiences. I enjoy meaningful conversations, exploring new neighborhoods, and learning how people live around the world. I’m independent but warm, respectful of shared spaces, and I try to leave places better than I found them.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I’m on Couchsurfing to experience places through real human connection, not just tourism. I value community, cultural exchange, and staying with people who enjoy sharing stories and perspectives. I’m here to connect respectfully and intentionally.

Interests

• Deep conversations
• Exploring cities on foot
• Personal growth & self-reflection
• Music & storytelling
• Mental health awareness
• Nature walks
• Building community

• cats
• coloring
• movies
• reading
• tv
• music
• hiking
• beaches
• art
• feminism
• queer
• city life
• queer theory
• lgbtq
• decoloniality

Music, Movies, and Books

🎬 Experimental / Avant-Garde Movies

Un Chien Andalou (1929) – Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí 🐰🔪
Surrealist short film filled with shocking, dreamlike imagery—famously opens with an eye being sliced.

Eraserhead (1977) – David Lynch 🏭👶
A nightmarish, industrial landscape of surreal horror and body horror; a cult masterpiece of unsettling visuals.

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) – Maya Deren 🌀🌙
Poetic, dreamlike exploration of identity and subconscious through innovative editing and camera techniques.

Dog Star Man (1961–64) – Stan Brakhage 🌌🎞️
Abstract, impressionistic experimental film with hand-painted frames and cosmic visuals.

Holy Motors (2012) – Leos Carax 👤🎭
A surreal journey through multiple personas, blending absurdity, theatre, and existential exploration.

La Région Centrale (1971) – Michael Snow 🎥🌀
A 2-hour mechanical camera rotation capturing remote landscapes in hypnotic, alien perspectives.

Outer Space (1999) – Peter Tscherkassky 👻✂️
Found-footage horror deconstructed through extreme collage, scratches, and rewinds—visually aggressive.

T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1968) – Paul Sharits 🎞️💥
Rapid-fire flashing colors and strobing patterns, exploring perception and physiological effects of film.

The Holy Mountain (1973) – Alejandro Jodorowsky 🔮🗿
Surreal, religiously symbolic, visually overwhelming journey blending mysticism, alchemy, and absurdity.

Empire (1964) – Andy Warhol 🏢⏳
Eight hours of a static Empire State Building; minimalist and confrontational, challenging notions of time.

Mothlight (1963) – Stan Brakhage 🍂✨
Leaves, petals, and other organic materials glued to film, creating fleeting abstract imagery.

A Thousand Plateaus of Madness (Experimental Short Films) 🌀📽️
Collage-like sequences of fragmented sound, visuals, and narrative meant to destabilize perception.

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (1968) – William Greaves 🎬🧠
A film about making a film that spirals into chaos, blurring fiction and documentary in confusing ways.

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) - Jonas Mekas
This four hour film offers a glimpse into the life of Jonas Mekas, who is reconstructed from home movies, which offer footage of family gatherings and commemoration of milestones across a period of 30 years.

Ontologica! or a Brief Explanation of Absolutely Everything that is Known about Absolutely Everything! (2012) - Skylar Gordon
Self-Explanatory!

Begotten (1989) – E. Elias Merhige ☠️
Black-and-white, disturbing, mythic, almost ritualistic.

Fuego (1969) – Armando Bó 🔥
Argentine surrealism meets sexual transgression.

Anticipation of the Night (1926) – Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid 🌙
Dreamlike, haunting early experimental narrative.

The House is Black (1963) – Forugh Farrokhzad 🖤
Documentary-poetic meditation on a leper colony.

Shirley Clarke: Portrait of Jason (1967) 🎭
Raw, improvisational psychological and social experiment.

The Cremaster Cycle (1994–2002) – Matthew Barney 🦋
Ritual, grotesque body sculpture, absurdist symbolism.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) – Shinya Tsukamoto 🤖
Industrial body horror, nightmarish cyberpunk.

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🎵 Experimental / Avant-Garde Musicians

John Cage 🎹🕰️
Composer famous for chance music, silence, and unconventional instruments; think 4′33″.

Sunn O))) ⚫🔥
Drone metal pioneers creating immersive, hypnotic, and almost ritualistic soundscapes.

Laurie Anderson 🎤🎧
Multimedia artist blending spoken word, electronic music, and performance art.

Throbbing Gristle 🛠️💀
Industrial music innovators who fused noise, performance, and provocative themes.

Merzbow 🎛️💥
Japanese noise music legend, creating intense, immersive walls of sound that challenge traditional listening.

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band !
Avant-rock, unconventional rhythms

Aphex Twin
IDM and electronic experimental structures

Diamanda Galás 😈 – Vocal extremity, political and ritualistic performance.

Laraaji 🌞 – Ambient, ecstatic zither vibrations.

Alvin Lucier 🔊 – Sonic experiments with space and resonance.

Fennesz 🌊 – Glitchy, distorted, textural electronic soundscapes.

Current 93 🕯️ – Apocalyptic folk, occult and surreal narratives.

Jim O’Rourke - Did the soundtrack for Love Liza with philip seymour hoffman

Coil 🔮 – Industrial, esoteric, occult-tinged experimental sound.

Deathprod 👁️ – Drone, eerie minimalism, abstract audio landscapes.

Nurse With Wound 🩸 – Surreal, cut-up, unpredictable sonic collage.

Oval 💿 – Early glitch pioneers, fractured digital textures.

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📚 Experimental / Avant-Garde Books

Finnegans Wake – James Joyce (1939) 🌊🔡
A dense, dreamlike novel with puns, neologisms, and circular narrative challenging conventional reading.

Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs (1959) 💉🌀
Cut-up, nonlinear narrative exploring addiction, control, and hallucination in gritty prose.

House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski (2000) 📐📖
A labyrinthine, typographically inventive horror story blending footnotes, text spirals, and multiple narrators.

Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov (1962) 🖋️🔍
A poem and commentary intertwine to form a puzzle-like narrative exploring obsession and interpretation.

The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien (1967) 🚲💀
Surreal, darkly comic exploration of time, existence, and a bizarre police world.

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (1992)
What is there to say!? Am I right?

The Book of Disquiet – Fernando Pessoa 🌫️
Fragmented, haunting, inner consciousness diary.

Kafka On the Shore - Haruki Murakami (2002) Metaphysical Magical Realism!

The Atrocity Exhibition – J. G. Ballard 🏗️
Media-saturated, fragmented, disturbing vision of modernity.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I am finishing up my doctorate program and here is my dissertation abstract:

the house of modernity (https://decolonialfutures.net/house-of-modernity-zine/) is on 🔥 and there is no driver at the wheel 🚒
We're'll trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death... Cause ... We thought we were safe. We'd paid to be white. With enough blood and money, anyone can be white. It's always been that way. But the thing about being white is it binds you. Ensorcelles you. It's easy to see **** as cursed, because you've separated | yourself from them. But you don't know... you're enslaved just like they are. Cold whiteness. You're hypothermic. You lose logic. You see the blood... and you think someone else is bleeding. Everyone is screaming at you to turn the machine off, but you can't hear them. You can't even hear yourself saying, "We're cursed, too." ...We're cursed, too

Noetiexpansively* Imbricated within the erotocytonexic-noetiscape, we are at University contemplatively engaging with the lineages and register of disability-qua-decoloniality. Disserting systems of de-coloniosettlerization as they forestall and foreclose apertures of matrixal sentience in the recursive procreation of the project of the huMANchine | we remonstrate in plight, the exiled plexus of the coloniosensorium ... regard this article we wrote (https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1925993/1925994), as dendritic ecotones — rhizomaticly dehiscencent in secretokinetic aporia — de-ontogen-ontically demetacosmologize the preconfigured semiomateriodiscursive fabric of anti-blackness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=331n2m7oanM) that pervades the {Noumenon of the Extranoematic} - (conferatur Sophie Strand, Bayo Akomolafe, Tyson Yunkaporta, Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures, Sylvia Wynter, Fred Moten, Saidiya Hartman, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, et cetera).

When not sequestered to (abrahamic)ethnocolonial-anthropocratic relationship with the epistemological industrial complex as a means of navigating the constraints of capitalism, love everything water because ... water sign! Right now really deep diving (paronomasia) into different dihydrogen monoxide modalities (Exempli gratia: thalassotherapy)!

Prefer not to use pronouns and share in confederation with the corporeopolitical sociogenics of transfemMENistic materialism (videlicet Anarkata, Red Voice News, Nsambu Za Suekama, et cetera). Free Palestine! Palestine Lives First! Black Lives First! Indigenous Lives First! Trans Lives First! Disabled Lives First!

*neurocoloniality uses the word “autistic” as anglospheric legibility with the hesperian/occidental psychiatric prison industrial complex.

Websites (edit)
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https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/sick-architecture
https://recursivecolonialism.com/

Teach, Learn, Share

I can share good conversation, emotional intelligence, and being a thoughtful guest.
I’m always eager to learn about different cultures, perspectives, and everyday life in new places. I believe everyone has something valuable to teach.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I’m tidy, considerate, and communicative. I respect boundaries, schedules, and house rules.
I’m happy to help with light chores, share meals or conversation, and bring appreciation and positive energy into the home.

Countries I’ve Visited

United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States