CURRENT MISSION

Roadtrip NC ---> OR in December 2013

ABOUT ME

Vegan feminist reader and library sitter, Joanna Newsom is my girlfriend, angry poet, restless acupuncture patient

PHILOSOPHY

Smell the flowers, yo

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Making food and tea for friends, talking about books and ideas, not putting away clean laundry in favor of sitting on the porch collaging to podcasts

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

A bit abroad in 2009, many friendly beers and picnics

Interests

Veganism, alternate transit (bikes, trains, scooters, hikes), books, ideas, not capitalism, leggings, cats, FNB, potlucks, prose poetry, genre-bending, writing nonfic, editing lit mags

• cats
• arts
• writing
• books
• poetry
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• baking
• vegan
• flowers
• politics
• podcasts
• hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: Ratatouille, La Bete Humaine, Breathless, Les Enfants du Paradis, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Delicatessen, Hitchcock, O Brother Where Art Thou, Harold & Maude, The Edukators, Jean-Pierre Jeunet,

Music: lots of hip-hop and folk, funk, blues, soul, jazz, African funk, and Buena Vista Social Club, Joni Mitchell, Francoise Hardy, Quantic, Pop music is the greatest so Kanye West is the king of all that

Books: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Franny & Zooey, Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Sportswriter, The Moviegoer, tons of poems/poets, good culture and sociology essays, Despair, bell hooks

TV: The Wire, X-Files, The West Wing, Six Feet Under, Game of Thrones

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Touched a stalactite

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: I speak very good English and not-terrible French. Am happy to teach colloquialisms in both!; I am a good cook, though I cannot bake.; I can read your Tarot; I can give you my ever-evolving chai recipe; I will read you a poem

Learn: Vegan baking! Simplification skills. Art. Leftist politics. Book recommendations. Not being such a homebody.

Share: Peanut butter oat balls. Books. Leftist ideas.

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, France, Morocco

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States