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I grew up all over the place, and it made me a natural traveler. I've now been using Chicago as my home-base for almost 10 years, going in and out all the time. I spend a lot of time playing music, and tour around the U.S./Canada with my band Crown Larks. Its eclectic jazzy psych rock -- you can check out our last album here: www.crownlarks.com. I like to read, mainly fiction and philosophy (recently read Henry Miller for the first time), watch films, go see live jazz and experimental electronics shows, hang about in thrift stores, and cook! I'm the mother of an 18-month-old son, and we spend huge amounts of time together wandering around the parks and watching bugs. I love nature and like to be outside as much as possible. I'm more of a listener than a talker, but I love meeting new people who are trying to forge their own path in life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've hosted many many people together with my boyfriend Jack. Together we couchsurfed from Germany to Lebanon in 2010 (see references on Jack's page since we requested from his account). CS is the best way to meet people from the place you're traveling in, avoid suffocating tourist traps, and get a really unique experience.

Interests

• animals
• books
• cooking
• movies
• reading
• music
• live music
• piano
• languages
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Everything by Tarkovsky, but especially Stalker. Everything by Bresson. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes, Battle of Algiers, Tokyo Story, anything by Abbas Kiarostami, In the Mood for Love, The Decalogue.

Music: Charles Mingus, Coltrane, Francis Bebey, Dean Blunt, Talk Talk, Horse Lords, Spacemen 3, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Kendrick Lamar, Dirty Projectors, CAVE, and too many more to list.

Books: Joyce, Woolf, Proust, Miller, Beckett, Goethe, Faulkner, Rushdie, Bolaño... Poetry: Rilke, Auden, Stevens. Philosophy: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kant, Levinas, Foucault.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Seen a full rainbow over Waimea Canyon on Kauai'i at 5am.
Traveled through the Romanian countryside in Autumn.
Toured the entire U.S. in a beat-up van.
Hitchhiked 3000 miles.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Lebanon, Romania, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Nigeria, Oman, United States