CURRENT MISSION

One of these mornings You're gonna rise, rise up singing, You're gonna spread your wings

ABOUT ME

Part-time lawyer, translator, dancer, theater-critic

PHILOSOPHY

Should I pursue a path so twisted ?
Should I crawl defeated and gifted ?
Should I go the length of a river,
[The royal, the throne, the cry me a river]

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Travaled with CS to Brugge, Bordeaux, Antibes and Düsseldorf. Hosted surfers in Paris twice. It all has been a wonderful experience.

Interests

Literature, theatre, art, contemporary dance, music (esp. female rock and singer-songwriting), wandering thru the cities, meeting interesting people, chatting chatting, coffee, good wine and defifnitely a good joke!))

• arts
• literature
• singing
• theater
• dancing
• wine
• coffee
• music
• languages
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies - American Beauty, The Fall, The Hours, Veronica's Double Life, Zerkalo, Donnie Darko, Mysterious Skin, All About Mother, Transamerica, Reconstruction.

Music - Tori Amos, Sinead O'Connor, Natalie Merchant, Portishead, Noir Desir, PJ Harvey, Sufjan Stevens, Antony and the Johnsons, Philip Glass, Feist, Max Richter, Morrissey, Patrick Wolf, Cat Power, Marianne Faithfull, Nina Simone, Patti Smith and some jazz...

Books - russian, scandinavian, american and british literature, notably Michael Cunningham, Ivan Bounine, Anton Tchekhov, Lars Saabye Christensen, Majgull Axelsson, Mikhail Shishkin, John Fowles, Evelyn Waugh, John Steinbeck, Romain Gary.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Decided to go to France to study and live
landed in chilly alsace for a second year