CURRENT MISSION

To figure out what to write here

ABOUT ME

I'm one of those artist types

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfin' couches all over the world, meetups, meetings, and when my apartment allows...hosting

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far it's been 95% great. I've met some people who have changed my life...couchsurfing through Europe lead me to move to Europe, so yes, overall big thumbs up.

Interests

hmm, travel comes to mind...
cinematography, dutch, obscure words, anatomy, how things are made, bright colors, a cappella choirs, body language, armadillos, lentils, being left handed, sunflowers, mammatus clouds

• traveling
• a cappella
• hiking
• anatomy

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Inception, Shaun of the Dead, Stratosphere Girl, Hot Fuzz, Pi, Palindromes, Happiness, Donnie Darko, Me and You and Everyone We Know, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, 12 Angry Men, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Amelie, Requiem for a Dream, Sunshine, Life Is Beautiful, The Dinner Game, In Bruges, Man Friday, King Corn, Brick, Hotel Rwanda, Rear Window, Chinatown, City of God, Fight Club, Pan's Labyrinth, Judgment at Nuremberg, Stand by Me, The Big Lebowski, V for Vendetta, Magnolia, Planet of the Apes, Mississippi Burning, 28 Days Later, Death At A Funeral, Oceans Thirteen, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Airplane!, Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, 28 Weeks Later, Bolt, Babel, Lost in Translation, Into the Wild, The Brothers Bloom, Paradise Now, My Life as a Dog, Let the Right One In, 500 Days of Summer, Waking Life, Moon, Once, The Incredibles, Love in Thoughts, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Music: Regina Spektor, Wilco, The Decemberists, Neutral Milk Hotel, Ani DiFranco, Bitch and Animal, Andrew Bird, Holly Near, Johnny Cash, Imogen Heap, Incubus, Jack Johnson, Kanye West, Modest Mouse, Muse, Phil Ochs, The Postal Service, Rilo Kiley, Rufus Wainwright, Sigur Ros, Simon & Garfunkle, Sublime, Sufjan Stevens, The World/Inferno Friendship Society, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Feist, Animal Collective, Jenny Owen Youngs, Ingrid Michaelson, Crystal Castles, Grizzly Bear, Jay Brannan

Books:The BFG, The Catcher in the Rye, Lost Horizon, The Call of the Wild, The Tenacity of the Cockroach, Catch-22, The Pearl, The Witches, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Me Talk Pretty One Day, 1984, Naked, Ishmael, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Their Eyes Were Watching God, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Power of One, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Life of Pi, Tomorrow, When the War Began, Everything Is Illuminated, I Am America, Prozac Nation, Flyboys, Siddhartha, Speak, On the Road, Of Mice and Men, I Am Legend, Barrel Fever, Stand by Me, Flags of Our Fathers, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Tempest, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The Stranger, The Diary of a Young Girl, The Great Gatsby, Harry Potter series

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Jumping off a cliff into clear blue water in Apricale, Italy. Hitch hiking through Europe. Making out passionately in the pouring rain. Sitting in total darkness away from civilization and just watching the stars.

(This all makes me sound like a huge hippie)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, United States

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