CURRENT MISSION

To seek out new life and civilization... to boldly go where no man has gone before....

ABOUT ME

I am a writer, and artist, a documentary film maker. I am a poet, a fiction novelist, a trash artist, a mix-breed Cherokee Indian and Scottish highlander, a trumpet player who lost her talent to a windshield, a speaker of five languages. I am the kid at the back of the class with the headgear on in 6th grade. I am the girl on the front row asking too many questions. I am a hider, and a mouthy aggressor. I am a avid environmentalist, an emotional outbreaker, seat-taker, skyscraper. I am a kick-your-ass-if-i-hafta individualist, an impromptu package shipper, a musician, a lover of art, a do-er, a crier at movies and sunsets and dead birds, a drunken break dancer, lube wrestler, early morning opera singer, and occasionally, I am an amateur French chef with lofty aspirations and dinner for twenty yet to prepare. ....

PHILOSOPHY

Ad astra per alia porci (Latin: "To the stars on the wings of a pig!") from John Steinbeck.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I LOVE traveling - and I LOVE being cheap! So, this is a great place to blend those two LOVES of mine! I have a place to offer and may ask to pass out on your couch one day!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

EXCELLENT! Everyone has been amazing!!

Interests

Interests include: weirdo artsy fartsy stuff, music - and I mean MUSIC! (from polka to punk rock), writing and literature, languages, oddball quirky roadside attractions, writing about adventure stories and the adventures themselves, reading - CONSTANTLY, cryptolingusitics (im a nerd), junk and doodads, photography, laughing too loud, fart jokes, and of course, CARS!

• birds
• arts
• writing
• literature
• photography
• documentaries
• dancing
• polka
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• cars
• music
• trumpet
• opera
• scuba diving
• bungee jumping
• wrestling
• hang gliding
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music The Microphones, The Veils, Interpol, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, New Orleans Bingo Show, Trombone Shorty, Sigur Ros, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, The Autumns, Arcade Fire, Goldfrapp, Bjork, Devo, Black Heart Procession, Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum, Lift To Experience, Fader Dub, Blueprint Sea, Jetscreamer, Paperchase, Mates of State, Theatre Fire, David Bowie, Otis Redding, Kermit Ruffins, Rebirth Brass Band, Burning Airlines, Wadsworth, Captured by Robots, Luciano Pavarotti, Wynton Marsalis, Tomaso Albinoni, John Cage, Modest Mussorgski, Giacomo Puccini, Gustav Mahler, Dizzy Gillespie, Leonard Bernstein, Carl Saint-Saenz.... Check out my music at www.mmharris.com

Movies Cannibal Holocaust, Barton Fink, Mulholland Drive, The English Patient, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, City of Lost Children, Spirited Away, Ghost World, Pi, Eraserhead, Army of Darkness, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Edward Scissorhands, Kiki's Delivery Service, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Television Six Feet Under, The Jeff Corwin Experience, Star Trek TNG, The Simpsons, The Oblongs, Futurama, Family Guy, Red Dwarf, Stupid Movie of the Week, and... anything on Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, History Channel

Books The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers, Texas Beer Jesus Whiskey Pussy - Massey, Mockingbird Wish Me Luck- Bukowski, The Fountainhead - Rand, On The Road - Kerouac, Blue Highways - Moon, House of the Spirits - Allende, The Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway, The Little Prince - St. Exupery, Heart of Darkness - Conrad, Tony Hillerman books, choose your own adventures, many many more...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

This sounds like bragging.... shoo! I've got TONS - literally, CUBIC TONS of stories about my crazy adventures. I've played trumpet for the Queen of England, thrown up on my Dad on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, shook hands with Ronald Regan while he was in office, been naked on COPS, boarded the Concord prior to one of its last flights, have been bungee jumping, cliff diving and hang gliding - all before the age of 18! Im almost 30 now, so you'd have to ask a more specific question than "something amazing you have seen or done" - shoo...

Teach, Learn, Share

Yes. Yes. and Yes.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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