CURRENT MISSION

Figure out what I want to do with my life and meet great people who might could help me to figure that out?

ABOUT ME

After a gorgeous and swift-paced 7 year montage of back-and-forth studies, work, and travels through the United States, Europe, North Africa, and then some, I've just recently returned to what I feel is my true "hometown" of Athens, Georgia, USA, and I couldn't be feeling more zen if you put the Buddha in front of me. I'm interested in literally everything - that doesn't mean that I LOVE literally everything (but then, I do love pretty much...everything); what it means is the greatest thing I know and love is to communicate and share any and every experience with all the beautiful souls there are out there. I love me some PEEPS.

I veer pretty steeply towards the "humanities," and I particularly dig writing/literature, music, visual arts, theater, cinema and videography, cuisine, and...FINE, I dig everything. I'm working on working on making work out of love. Does that make sense? It doesn't really to me either. That's why I'm still "working" on it. The goal is to make things that will make people want to move, whether physically or otherwise (I want to stay moving, too). Recently I've started sharing a studio outside of my house with some like-minded artists/writers/etcers, and it's become pretty clear that we're SHAKING UP THE TOWN, y'all. More to come, and I'm excited.

PHILOSOPHY

"Listen - I want to run all my life, screaming at the top of my lungs. Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture. Everything is blooming. Everything is flying. Everything is screaming, choking on its screams. Laughter. Running. Let-down hair. That's all there is to life."

Vladimir Nabokov

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I want to branch out, yo. Always.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Backpacking through Europe - stayed with and/or met CSers in Greece, Germany, Austria, and France. All perfectly awesome experiences.

Interests

LANGUAGES, linguistics - TRAVEL - PEOPLE, friends and fam - THEATER, acting - WRITING - MUSIC, musicmaking, singing - ART, doodling - FILM, filmmaking - FOOD, cooking - NATURE, animals and the outdoors - FASHION, anti-fashion; dancing, biking, walking, hiking, running, swaying, swimming, sashaying, flying, twirling, taking trains: so basically, ALWAYS MOVING (occasionally sleeping for hours and hours).

• animals
• arts
• humanities
• writing
• literature
• singing
• theater
• fashion
• film making
• acting
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• running
• working out
• walking
• flying
• movies
• traveling
• music
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• backpacking
• swimming
• languages
• visual arts

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Lost in Translation, La Dolce Vita, The Royal Tenenbaums, In the Mood for Love, Talk To Her, Boogie Nights, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Annie Hall, Spirited Away, Persepolis, All About My Mother, No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Brief Encounter, La Haine, Entre les Murs, Climates, Claire's Knee, Caché, Fanny and Alexander, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, I am Cuba, Tokyo Story, Quand La Mer Monte, Bonnie and Clyde, Grey Gardens, Pulp Fiction, Volver, Chungking Express, Junebug, Charade, A Woman is a Woman, Caché, Etre et Avoir, Oldboy, Cléo de 5 à 7, Hero, Roman Holiday, Adaptation, Mutual Appreciation, Hiroshima Mon Amour, The Philadelphia Story, Charade, Rashomon, All About Eve, La Pianiste, Kill Bill, Citizen Kane, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Before Sunset/Sunrise, Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Big Lebowski, Sunset Boulevard, Punch Drunk Love, Spaceballs, Superbad, Y Tu Mamá También, F for Fake, Sense and Sensibility, The Motorcycle Diaries, 8 1/2, Manhattan, Belle de Jour, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, North By NW, Out of Sight, La Strada, The Dreamers, Dancer in the Dark, Blow-Up, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, La Règle du Jeu, Volver, Le Genou de Claire, I am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco

MUSIC: wilco, broken social scene, mirah, bon iver, jens lekman, björk, pavement, serge gainsbourg, velvet underground, x-ray spex, david bowie, joy division, googoosh, t. rex, fela kuti, califone, of montreal, yelle, lcd soundsystem, CSS, junior boys, dirty projectors, bonobo, four tet, röyksopp, robyn, twilight sad, thomas dybdahl, bill callahan, phosphorescent, paper cuts, public enemy, broadcast, the fall, deerhoof, the clientele, ludacris, pulp, talk talk, the soft boys, beatles, loose fur, daft punk, stereolab, boredoms, my morning jacket, herbert, talking heads, nina simone, cat power, de la soul, caetano veloso, os mutantes, ruth, jacno, charles de goal, girl talk, neutral milk hotel, the buckleys, m. ward, leonard cohen, bonnie 'prince' billy, bob dylan, pere ubu, françoiz breut, gal costa, françoise hardy, dusty springfield, kinks, the notwist, gastr del sol, yo la tengo, swans, love, beach boys, enon, les savy fav, ted leo, colin blunstone, sparklehorse, outkast, phoenix, camille, mathieu chedid, nina nastasia, joanna newsom, clipse, cibo matto, jay-z, lou reed, missy elliott, sam cooke, miles davis, abba, microphones, books, magnetic fields, cardigans, t.i., asobi seksu, blonde redhead, circulatory system, astrud gilberto, the earlies, dead prez, brian eno, animal collective, television, poni hoax, deerhunter, thelonious monk, michel legrand, gang of four, tv on the radio, patsy cline, jason molina, black heart procession, new pornographers, castanets, starlight mints, neil young, billie holiday, spoon, gotan project, john lennon, beyoncé, j. timberlake, stan getz, menomena, beirut, of montreal, dark meat, the ginger envelope, venice is sinking, russian spy camera, r.e.m., hope for agoldensummer.

BOOKS: Harry Potter, Lolita, Franny & Zooey, Pierre et Jean, Les Petits Chevaux de Tarquinia, A Handful of Dust, L'étranger, Rebecca, L'Amant, El Amor en el Tiempo del Cólera, I Am One of You Forever, Angels in America, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, White Teeth, The Catcher in the Rye, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, High Fidelity, Death of a Salesman, Long Day's Journey into Night, Three Sisters, The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Ellen Foster, A Moveable Feast, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Standard Magazine, poetry by E.E. Cummings, Pablo Neruda, Robert Desnos, Arthur Rimbaud...short stories by George Saunders or A.M. Homes, anything on Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once was lucky enough to go from carrying my textbooks as I shuffled glumly through dead leaves in the Northern Hemisphere (Georgia) to, 12 hours later, savoring an alfajor cookie while taking in rays of sun through green green green Jacaranda trees in full bloom, in the Southern Hemisphere (in Buenos Aires, Argentina). It's one thing to change PLACES in the world within a matter of hours - it's another to change SEASONS within that same timeframe. It blows your mind.

Teach, Learn, Share

sí. sí. sí.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States