CURRENT MISSION

To gallivant, unlearn, and make music

ABOUT ME

Folk musician and dancer, singer/songwriter.

Traveling through Central/ South Eastern Europe with very few plans and very many desires.

PHILOSOPHY

Lean forward. Always.

"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the-glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like a marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it." - John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Looking for live music and dancing, good conversation, and adventure. Or maybe just a quiet, calm place to lay my head for a few nights.

Interests

Folk music and dance, art, photography, yoga, hiking, critical theory

• arts
• photography
• dancing
• yoga
• traveling
• music
• live music
• folk music
• hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Joanna Newsom, Blue Scholars, Calle 13, Kaki King, Erik Satie, Free the Robots, Bonobo, Polica, alt+J, Purity Ring, Jeff Buckley, Sleepy Sun, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Black Angels, The XX, Doc Watson, Gillian Welch, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Neutral Milk Hotel, MWE, Kitka, Dromeno, Pangeo, Brass Menazeri, Fanfare Zambaleta, Inspektor Gadje, Slavic Soul Party, Agapi Mou.

Authors: John Steinbeck, George Orwell, Rebecca Goldstein, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Dave Eggers, Milan Kundera, Saul Bellow. Edward Said, Benedict Anderson, Bruno Latour, Saul Alinsky, Dave Graeber, Judith Butler, Marcel Mauss, Karl Marx, Emil Durkheim, Ahad Ha'am. Fuck Foucault. And the four redactors of the Torah.

TV Shows: United States of Tara, Slings and Arrows, Bones, L WORD, Pretty Little Liars.

Movies: Everything by Hayao Miyazaki, The Secret of Kells, The Thief and the Cobbler, The Great Dictator, Harvey, Life is Beautiful, Requiem for a Dream, Amelie, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Harry Potter, Lincoln, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Der Blaue Engel.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States