CURRENT MISSION

Currently making networks for queers in the West Puget Sound area meet each other and connect over activities that they enjoy. Would love to host people in Bremerton if they need it, and look forward to surfing in Seattle with my sweetie.

ABOUT ME

Live in Bremerton, WA with my sweetie, where we are starting up Queer Kitsap, an organization for queers of all stripes in Kitsap County to meet and connect. Right now our main even is WERQ: a Queer Dance Party that takes place at the Hi-Fidelity Lounge in Bremerton every 4th Friday of the month. I'm also a volunteer adult facilitator at the Kitsap county Q Youth Center. In my spare time, I produce independent features (what I went to school for) which at the moment means trying to sell the last movie I made. I also work freelance in the film industry. Around here that mostly means reality T.V. shows. I have bikes that I used to ride all the time while living in Las Vegas, and have been sitting in the basement since I moved to WA in March (for shame). My sweetie and I are queer parents to a very affectionate chihuahua and a very shy tabby cat.

PHILOSOPHY

Being kind, positive, and optimistic, learn as much as possible.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfing with folks all over the country, and hosting people every now and then.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have met some really wonderful people from all over the world that have surfed at my friends' homes in Las Vegas, and surfing all over the country the summer of 2012

Interests

bikes, traveling, films, books of all types, plays, art, being in the wild, food, politics, gender, feminism, music, live shows, living.

• cats
• arts
• books
• dancing
• womens rights
• dining
• vegan
• partying
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• surfing
• freelancing
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Anything by Irvine Welsh, Khaled Hosseini, Eileen Myles, bell hooks, Eileen Myles, Rick Perlstein, Thoreau ---Making Movies, Nixonland, Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, The Stranger, The Road.
Plays: Stop Kiss, Satellites, A Streetcar Named Desire; Whales, Save Us!; How I Learned to Drive, Torch Song Trilogy, Angels in America, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Fences, RED.

Pretty much any Coen bros. movie, Wes Anderson, Woody Allen, Lisa Cholodenko, Kubrick, Tarantino, Jim Henson.--There Will Be Blood, Spun, American Beauty, Men Who Stare at Goats, The Descendants, Juno, Trainspotting.

Mad Men, The Rachel Maddow Show, Radiolab(podcast)

Cults, Alexander, Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Billie Holiday, The XX, Florence and the Machine, The Sandwitches, The Morning Benders, Cold War Kids, The Black Keys, Bob Dylan, The Dirty Projectors, Yacht, The Flaming Lips, Fleet Foxes, Girls, M. Ward, First Aid Kit, Thao With the Get Down Stay Down, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, St. Vincent, Tegan & Sara, Warpaint, Ugly Casanova, The first two Strokes albums, Juliana Richer Daily, Janis Joplin

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

It's all been a long string of amazing serendipity.

Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach bike repair/tuneup, minor car repair, simple/tasty vegan meals, skills for being in the wild, Tegan and Sara songs on the ukulele, anything you want to know about making movies.

Would love to learn anything you want to share.

Countries I’ve Visited

Dominican Republic

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States