CURRENT MISSION

to live bicontinentally

ABOUT ME

I´m a very independent, quirky, festively dark, fun-loving but serious kind of person. Sometimes my life resembles a Marx Brothers film; sometimes I live in a cave. I like to mix things up, whether socks, words, people, or musical genres. I´m almost always happy, which is maybe why I sing sad songs (you can hear them at www.myspace.com/meaghanburke).

PHILOSOPHY

but it makes a good story

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

couchsurfed for the first time in Paris in October with Heloise et Julien in "le squat artistique"
hosted Erika, a last-minute thing, we met on the u-bahn from the shuttle from bratislava airport!
couchsurfed with Patryk in Berlin in April 2007
hosted Nick and Nirav in Vienna in April 2007
hosted Patryk in Vienna in July 2007

Interests

Cello, singing, music of all kinds that are good (see below), picnics, books, boats, sunbasking, street busking, caffeinated beverages, Cafe Hawelka, people with opinions

• books
• singing
• running
• music
• last minute travel

Music, Movies, and Books

music? all over the place. notably, Schubert, Led Zeppelin, Bartok, Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Britten, Joni Mitchell, hope for agoldensummer, Ella Fitzgerald, Muddy Waters, Ma Rainey, blues in general, Lucinda Williams, can, Messiaen, Mozart, Debussy, The Books, Bjork, the Beatles, Animal Collective, The Magnetic Fields, The Black Keys, The White Stripes, Sufjan Stevens, Radiohead, Hildegard von Bingen, Beck, Bob Dylan, and many more...
books-Franny and Zooey, anything by Kundera (esp. Immortality), F. Scott Fitzgerald, La Machine Infernale, East of Eden, Underworld (Don DeLillo)
movies? Diner, Slacker, Bonnie and Clyde, Annie Hall, Die Fetten Jahre Sind Vorbei, all Monty Python, Lisztomania, Mean Girls, The Squid and the Whale, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Easy Rider

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

near death run-in with a giant Jesus float in an Easter procession in Granada ("what a charmingly narrow street! i wonder how the floats fit through there...")

Teach, Learn, Share

i can teach you to play cello! and write you a song!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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