CURRENT MISSION

To meet/host people and visit locations that inspire me for the stories I will someday tell through movie and writing.

ABOUT ME

Dreamer, storyteller, musician, editor, cinematographer, actor, singer, voice/sound-mimic, pianist, sketch-artist, comic book colorist/letterer, dancer, writer, climber, encourager, lover, friend, jester, boulderer, watcher-observer, wheatgrass-juicer, hospitalitarian.

PHILOSOPHY

I change and grow (hopefully for the better) every day, so I can't expect anyone else to completely understand me or to expect myself to completely understand others. I love everyone, want everyone else to love themselves, and want people to develop a sense of community with others, whether or not they grew up around one another.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love meeting people, learning about them, and encouraging them to be themselves.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfing is a wonderful way to meet the people you never knew you'd love to know in your life.

Interests

Good stories: Hearing them, telling them, and living them.

• writing
• books
• acting
• dancing
• cooking
• baking
• vegan
• movies
• socializing
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES
Interstellar; The Budapest Hotel; X-men (most); Shelter; Watchmen; Kick-Ass; Avengers (and all the Avengers movies); The Muppets; Drive; Tintin and the Secret of the Unicorn; Submarine; Cabin in the Woods; Scott Pilgrim vs. The World; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; You, Me and Everyone We Know; 500 Days of Summer; Mirrormask; [anything Jim Henson]; [anything with John William's music/Stephen Spielberg's directing]; Batman Begins; The Dark Knight; [anything by Hayao Miyazaki, particularly アリエティ (The Secret World of Arietty), 耳をすませば (Whisper of the Heart) and ハウルの動く城 (Howl's Moving Castle)]; [anything Tim Burton or Henry Selick]; Children of Men

MUSIC (artists)
Shivering Timbers, Light of the Loon, Florence in the Machine, Genesis (with Peter Gabriel), Queen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, King Crimson, Stevie Wonder, The Roches, Regina Spektor, Fiona Apple, Tom Waits, Tori Amos, The Beatles, Ray Lamontagne, Fleet Foxes, Nobuo Uematsu, Jo Hisaishi, Yoko Kanno, Mai Yamane, Danny Elfman, John Williams, Flight of the Concords, Jon Brion, Sigur Ros

BOOKS
(anything by George R.R. Martin, Peter S. Beagle, Neil Gaiman, and C.S. Lewis, Ray Bradbury, and David Sedaris) A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) series, Watchmen, Locke and Key, Batman Year One, Ghost World, The Last Unicorn, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Great Divorce, Giant Bones, A Language Older than Words, Watership Down

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have seen a small bird sitting on a tin roof, beating a lizard into submission before it swallowed it whole. I have also seen and held an oniyama, which is one of the largest dragonflies you may ever hear of in existence.

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to continue making independent films (technically "movies" because I may never actually use literal "film" with any movie I make) and work with any background of people in making said "films." I love making music with people (my band is called "Light of the Loon"). I enjoy cooking and baking vegan cuisine, so anyone interested in that would be high on my list of people to meet and hang with.

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