HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I am a surfer for now, and as such, I strive to be a respectful guest! COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Couch Surfing is awesome, and I love how people are open to learning about others.

Music: Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, The Mars Volta, FRANK ZAPPA, Pink Floyd, Ravi Shankar, Shpongle, Melt Banana, Ustad Vilayat Khan, Bismella Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Ali Amjad Khan, Zakir Hussain, Shahid Parvez, Nikhil Banerjee, Flogging Molly, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, A Silver Mt. Zion, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Bela Fleck, Paganinni, Infected Mushroom, Porcupine Tree, Gipsy Kings, Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, God of Shamesien, Sigur Ros, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Estradasphere, Tub Ring, Vasen, Jimi Hendrix, Tenacious D, Iron & Wine, Do Make Say Think, Coheed and Cambria, Muse, Dick Dale, Deathcab for Cutie, Animal Collective, The Polyphonic Spree, Clogs, Slint, Talk Talk, Oceansize, Tortoise, Fly Pan Am, M83, Liquid Tension Experiment, L. Shankar, John McLaughlin, Shakti, Portishead, the Flaming Lips, Fred Frith, Henry Cow, My Morning Jacket, Toubab Krewe, Ananda Shankar, Mahavishnu rchestra, John Luc Ponty, and many more. Movies: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Gandhi, The Shinning, City of God, WAKING LIFE, Spinal Tap, GATTACA, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, Spaceballs, Monty Python Search for the Holy Grail, Eddie Izzard: Dressed to Kill, Back to the Future, Star Wars, the Matrix, Dr. Strangelove, Total Recall, A Better Tomorrow 2, Into the Wild, Yes Man, and many more. Books: A Brief History of Everything, A Short History Of Nearly Everything, Guns Germs And Steel, Neuromancer, Zen Questions, The Foundation Trilogy, 1984, God's Debris, A Walk in the Woods, The Alchemist, Understanding Media, The Archaic Revival, Lame Deer