Thinker, Doer, Dreamer, Disaster Relief Kitchen Coordinator, Field Recording Maker, Aural Editor & Collector, Reader, Radio Host & Producer & Archivist (+Podcasts), Cook, Mover & Shaker, Cultural Animateur, Storyteller, Explorer of Sight & Resonance, Ever Curious, Sound Biter, Globetrotted Zee World, Pretty Periwinkle Poetry . . .

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meet new people and build connections.

Interests

Working, Traveling, Cooking, Networking, Reading, Learning, Walking, Sharing . . . And remembering that you can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead.

• poetry
• cooking
• walking
• reading
• traveling
• podcasts

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:

Child of Fortune - Norman Spinrad
Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson
Daytripper - Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba
Where Dead Voices Gather - Nick Tosches
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Ubik - Philip K. Dick
A Paradise Built In Hell - Rebecca Solnit
Asterios Polyp - David Mazzucchelli
You Can't Win - Jack Black
Blues - R. Crumb
Trout Fishing In America - Richard Brautigan
American Splendor - Harvey Pekar
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
Stagger Lee - Derek MCulloch & Sheperd Hendrix
Promethea - Alan Moore
Poetry, Comics, Folktales, Reference, History . . .

Music:

Blind Washington Phillips
Ma Rainey
The Incredible String Band
Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon
Blind Willie Johnson
Lucille Bogan
Jabbo Smith
Abner Jay
Blind Willie Mctell
Comus
Joe & Cleoma Falcon
Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers
Blind Roosevelt Graves
Bo Carter
Sun Also Rises
Barrelhouse Annie
Jelly Roll Morton
Blind Blake
Geeshie Wiley
Dr. Strangely Strange
Peg Leg Sam Jackson
Blind Boy Fuller
Dezurik Sisters

Film:

Alejandro Jodorowsky
Terry Gilliam
The Ruling Class
King of Hearts
Animal Crackers
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
8 1/2
Freaks
Leolo
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
And on and on . . .

Radio/Podcasts:

Radiolab, This American Life, Ron Cuzner

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Served in a relief kitchen in the aftermath of a natural disaster.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories, smiles, lending a hand (dishes, etc.), a tasty meal, wax poetic about a variety of subjects and this, that and the other.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, Panama