Special education teacher, traveler, (lousy) painter, heavy metal, punk, and horror movie addict.

Priorities are: education, justice, Indian food, art, poetry, cats, deep sea creatures, punk shows, and my leather jacket, in that order.

I lived in China for three years teaching English. No, I don't speak Chinese very well. Yes, the pollution is terrible. The food is pretty good, and it's different from Chinese food here. I got to visit Cambodia, Hong Kong, and Thailand while I was there. This has been a lovely conversation.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Traveling cross country from Connecticut to Portland OR this summer!

Interests

• writing
• poetry
• painting
• heavy metal
• horror movies
• ruins
• punk rock

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Rob Zombie, Clutch, Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Sleep, Motorhead, Down, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Black Sabbath, Molotov, Pearl Jam, In Extremo, Alice In Chains. And Lorde. Man, do I love Lorde.

Movies: Taxi Driver, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (and most horror), kung fu movies, anything David Lynch, Cohen Brothers, and Jim Jarmusch.

Books: Poetry, especially Ferlinghetti, Greg Corso, Walt Whitman, Richard Siken, Borges, Neruda, Blake, Robert Frost, and Ted Hughes. Non poetry Shirley Jackson, Lovecraft, John Fowles, Stephen King, Sylvia Plath, Khalil Gibran, Vonnegut, Shakespeare, Greek mythology,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Shook David Duchovny's hand. All I could think to ask him was if he liked Black Sabbath. He does.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Canada, China, France, Ireland, Italy, Thailand, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

China