CURRENT MISSION

My current mission is to find a way to never settle. Choose happiness. Travel. Eat well. Meet creative people who will challenge me. Adventure and exploration always.

ABOUT ME

Hear what my closest loved ones have to say....

J: a lust for things of complex nature and beauty (known: 2 years)
N: loving, kind, compassionate, beautiful, beautiful soul... (known: for 15 yrs)
JV: Darkly beautiful, expressly honest, sweet empathetic and spicy (known: 17 yrs)
Mom: independent, smart, beautiful, talented, a writer (known all my life)
Brother:You are independent, adventurous, Amicable. Oh and you are also a hippy (known: all his life)

PHILOSOPHY

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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Right now I am traveling. I live in a very small studio in LA currently but looking for bigger digs. Would be open to hosting for the right person! And always up for meeting new people and showing them around the town. I love Los Angeles and I want everyone here to love it as well!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am anxiously awaiting my first experience!

Interests

creation. love. beauty. music, art, books, film, nature. travel. exploration. languages and trinkets. pen pals. your ideas. childhoods. friends. a good drink and great food.

• arts
• writing
• books
• beauty
• dining
• walking
• partying
• drinking
• traveling
• music
• camping
• languages
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

music: Portishead, Fever Ray, planningtorock, Catpower, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, PJ Harvey, Girls, Dignan Porch, Anna Domino, Leonard Cohan, 13th Floor Elevators, Tim Buckley, Pure X, Tame Impala, John Cale, Roy Orbison, Wire, Iggy and the Stooges, Nick Cave, etc etc.

books: Nightwood, A Lover's Discourse, The Passion, Autobiography of Red, Ask the Dust, Obscure Bird of Night, Hell, etc. etc.

movies: Contempt, La Notti Bianche, Walkabout, Top Hat, Days of Heaven, Paper Moon, The Holy Mountain, Black Orpheus, etc. etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The first time i left the US i went to berlin and remember walking out of the airport and almost crying i was so happy. this was where i was going to live for a bit. it felt unreal. there is something about leaving your own country for the first time.

experiencing the Venice Biennale. the private parties. private collections. totally stunned to see how a different population lives. the conversations. the food. the art. the people and honestly the absolute luxury. Venice is one of my favorite cities to visit, so on top of that the honor of attending the Biennale the way I did was outrageous to me.

camping alone in Ojai, CA. it rained a bit the night before so i woke up to the fog and mist hugging the mountains. perfect raindrops just lingering on all the plants around me. the smell of wet sage was brilliant. being so isolated in nature was probably the best thing i have done for myself.

Countries I’ve Visited

Barbados, Dominica, Germany, Italy, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, Saint Lucia, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States