CURRENT MISSION

To experience and be

ABOUT ME

I moved down to Austin, TX, on a whim almost a year ago now from Pittsburgh, where I went to college, and I love it! I love cities in general and everything about them--the sounds, public transportation, going out for the nightlife & music, the art, all the possibilities for what can happen walking down the street. I work as the Coordinating Editor at a publishing company, and I enjoy my job.

PHILOSOPHY

"the answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Right now, I am able to meet up for coffee/drinks/general Austin city explorations. I have hosted a number of people before and all have been great experiences. I surfed in a couple places on a cross-country trip last summer and met some amazing people/had great experiences!

Interests

Being inspired, art in general, photography--(I have a 35mm Canon and also a Holga), rewriting the English language, chocolate, the surreal, the experimental, the absurd, contradiction

• arts
• photography
• chocolate
• coffee
• walking
• nightlife
• drinking
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

I love love film and a couple of favorites include: Wings of Desire, Maya Deren films, Se7en, Breathless, films with Audrey Hepburn, Night of the Living Dead, Hitchcock films, La Jetee, Pulp Fiction, Chungking Express.

Music:
Old Crow Medicine Show, The Band, Flying Burrito Brothers, The Kinks, Mermaid Avenue Vol 1&2, Gillian Welch, Prototypes, CSS, Hot Chip, The Avalanches. Also of course any live jazz, bluegrass, hard rockin' music played in small dark rooms by people with passion to howl "i exist" from a mountaintop.

I enjoy books by David Foster Wallace & Jonathan Safran Foer, favorite poets would be Mina Loy, Adrienne Rich & Alice Notley. I also recently read DNA & The Origins of Knowledge, The Electric Koolaid Acid Test and Down and Out in Paris and London and would highly recommend all.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Rode the Greyhound across the US. It was intense.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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