Educator and creator :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Always seeking an authentic connection with other humans.

Interests

Music, film, video games, karaoke, singing, drawing, darts, pool, cards, reading, writing, teaching, tutoring, socializing, trying new food and beverages, traveling, history, making new friends, staying active, shopping, cooking, learning

• literature
• street art
• anime
• hip-hop music
• history
• manga
• funk
• heavy metal
• soul
• hip hop
• punk rock
• post-punk
• funk music
• visual art

Music, Movies, and Books

I'm eclectic... Dystopia, manga, historical nonfiction, psychological thrillers, sci-fi, horror, Shintaro Kago, yokai, teen dramas, anime, Junji Ito, hip hop, jazz, Toshio Saeki, r&b, experimental electronica, PKD, post punk, ero guro, Welcome to Nightvale, funk, soul, 70's/80's punk, 80's thrash, post punk, NWOBHM

youtube.com/user/132liverpoolrd for more music

Books: Medical Apartheid, Emancipation Betrayed, Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era, Black Society in Spanish Florida, African or American? Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City 1784-1861, The Plutonium Files, Acres of Skin, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Uzumaki, The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Black Boy, Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1984, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, White Oleander, Animal Farm, Anthem, Fahrenheit 451, A Handmaid's Tale, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Fast Food Nation, Elements of Style, The Face on the Milk Carton, A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, A Ring of Endless Light, Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain, Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Watsons Go to Birmingham, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Speak, Star, Wayside School is Falling Down, Amelia's Notebook, The Pigman, Captain Underpants

Short Stories (my favorite medium): best of CreepyPasta, r/NoSleep, and r/LetsNotMeet, There Will Come Soft Rains, Hills Like White Elephants, How It Feels To Be Colored Me, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, Scanners Live In Vain, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Machine Stops, Shambleau, And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side

TV Shows: Samurai Champloo, Black Mirror, The Boondocks, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Silicon Valley, Mind of a Chef, Chopped, Bizarre Foods, No Reservations, Parts Unknown, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Twilight Zone, Louie, Avatar: the Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, Good Times, Wonder Years, Mr. Show, Orange is the New Black, Degrassi, Gossip Girl, My So Called Life, New Girl, The Mindy Project, Mystery Science Theater 3000, All That, Kenan & Kel, The Amanda Show, The Brak Show, Black Jesus, Sealab 2021, Project Runway, Game of Thrones, Aqua Teen, Adventure Time, Regular Show, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Wonder Showzen, Daria, South Park, Rocko's Modern Life, Futurama, Dexter's Laboratory, Tales from the Crypt, Superjail!, Johnny Bravo, Ren and Stimpy, Doug, Beavis and Butthead, Martin, The Wayans Bro, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Moesha, CatDog, 2 Stupid Dogs, I Am Weasel, Weeds, The Noozles, Squidbillies, Spongebob, KaBlam!, Sailor Moon, Psycho Pass, Nana, One Punch Man, Death Note, Cow and Chicken, Hey Arnold!, Growing Pains, The Chappelle Show, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Seinfeld, The Angry Beavers, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Goosebumps, American Horror Story (first three seasons ONLY), The Simpsons,

Directors: Martin Scorsese, Larry Clark, David Lynch, David Cronenburg, Quentin Tarantino, Wes Craven, Francis Ford Coppola, John Carpenter, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike, Takashi Shimizu, René Laloux, Ralph Bakshi, Darren Aronofsky, Mike Judge, Alfred Hitchcock, David Fincher, Brian De Palma, Roman Polanski, Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Otomo

Movies: It Follows, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa Valley of the Wind, Howl's Moving Castle, Blade Runner, They Live, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Grizzly Man, Summer Warz, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Ghost Dog, Dead Girl, Liquid Sky, Kids, Ip Man, Ninja Scroll, Heavy Metal, Fantastic Planet, Afro Samurai, Leon: The Professional, Gandahar, Ong Bak, Steamboy, Paprika, Akira, My Girl, Rear Window, Arsenic and Old Lace, Wild Style, Beat Street, Lone Wolf and Cub, Suspiria, Full Metal Jacket, Event Horizon, Videodrome, The Big Short, Men of Honor, Oldboy, Das Experiment, Puncture, Total Recall, The Last King of Scotland, The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, The Gate, Demons, Carved, Audition, Ichi: The Killer, Role Models, The People Under the Stairs, Noroi: The Curse, Psycho, The Adventures of Mark Twain, The Giver, The Dollhouse Murders, Small Soldiers, Trainspotting, I Spit on Your Grave, Cool World, Fritz the Cat, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Angels in America, Cabin Fever, 28 Days Later, The Hurricane, Blue Velvet, Towelhead, Apocalypse Now, American Graffiti, Children of Men, I Saw the Devil, The Devil's Double, Jack, Martyrs, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, Rosemary's Baby, Caligula, The Thing, Insidious, Smokey and the Bandit, Reservoir Dogs, Four Rooms, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Little Monsters, The Usual Suspects, Django Unchained, The Last American Virgin, Nacho Libre, There Will Be Blood, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Boondock Saints, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street, Rounders, Barfly, Gasland, Rockers, BASEketball, Orgazmo, Half Baked, Dead Poet's Society, The Cube, The Exam, Devil, Grandma's Boy, Taxi Driver, Teeth, Black Swan, Mommie Dearest, Face of Death, Pecker, Mean Streets, Dog Day Afternoon, The Black Power Mixtapes, Blank Check, Star Kid, Jacob's Ladder, Breakin, Bebe's Kids, Fresh, Do the Right Thing, Master of the Flying Guillotine, Shogun Assassin, Bully, Lars and the Real Girl, Queens of Comedy, Delirious, Style Wars, The Great White Hype, Coming to America, Slam, Kazaam, Mrs. Doubtfire, Clerks, Mallrats, Fievel Goes West, Shottas, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Dazed and Confused, The Langoliers, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Fern Gully, The Banger Sisters, A Bronx Tale, Don't Be a Menace to South Central, Crooklyn, Shaolin and Wu Tang, Enter the Dragon, Fists of Fury, Garden State, Se7en, Donnie Darko, Knocked Up, Wassup Rockers, Finding Nemo, Sugar Hill, Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault, Dolemite, I'm Gonna Get You Sucka, Natural Born Killers, Showgirls, Visioneers, The Craft, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Gummo, Hotel Rwanda, How High, Undercover Brother, Blow, The Ladies Man, City of God, White Squall, The Babe, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Food Inc, The Birdcage, Bomb It, A Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Kings of Comedy, Eddie Murphy's Raw, Brain Candy, New Jack City, He Got Game, Fight Club, Boyz In The Hood, Juice, Above the Rim, Goodfellas, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Falling Down, Belly, Casino, V for Vendetta, The Hills Have Eyes, The Untouchables, Funny Face, How to Marry a Millionaire, Menace II Society, Friday, CB4, Run Ronnie Run, Dead Poets Society, Hook, Patch Adams, What Dreams May Come, Catch Me If You Can......

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

After getting two Bachelor's in Africana Studies and English Literature, and acquiring my Florida Professional Teaching Certificate, I moved to Beijing to teach English.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Jokes, songs, history, math, literature, insight, food, friendship :)

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Hong Kong, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Thailand, United States