CURRENT MISSION

making people smile

ABOUT ME

i love life!
i will try just about anything and everything in between. i love to relish the little things about cultures new to me. laughing, drawing, midnight adventures, getting lost, taking random trams, living life the unconventional way, reading books like a mad woman, writing my thoughts, losing one's self in mother nature, hitchhiking and turning strangers into friends, watching the sun set, staying up late with the nightingales, smiling at people and counting how many i get back, going to concerts, dancing till the sun comes up, cooking bitchin' eatables, sharing knowledge and experience, learning, loving.

PHILOSOPHY

deflating negative energy and reminding people of all the beauty in this world that so often gets lost in the hullabaloo.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

i love to go to couchsurfing meetings at bars! meeting so many people and swapping so many stories! truly amazing!!!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

in Berlin...for my birthday!
it was AWESOME.
totally a wonderful experience, everyone was extremely nice and helpful...showed me around town, taught me how to make crepes, baked me a birthday cake, agh! it was so perfect!

Also O and i couch surfed all over Paris...we stayed with truly some AMAZING people and really infiltrated the city more than we ever could have on our own!

Interests

• writing
• books
• beauty
• concerts
• dancing
• cooking
• reading
• drawing
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

a small sampling of music al la alexis:

wolf parade, devendra banhart, fruit bats, plants and animals, fury in the slaughterhouse, get well soon, the jolly goods, the rain, zap mama, bessie smith, louis armstrong, natalie portman's shaved head, the wilson project, eartha kitt, atmosphere, bushido, people under the stairs, aesop rock, nas (old), aphex twins, band of horses, wolfmother, gif of gab, common market, architecture in helsinki, the flaming lips, 764-hero, quasi, nicholi dunger, goldfrapp, tech n9ne, cancer rising, spoon man, kinski, beatles, blue scholors, ugly duckling, elliot smith, death cab for cutie, bjork, portishead, interpol, clem snide, clinic, elbow, built to spill, sean lennon, sufjan stevens, rufus wainwright, wilco, ben folds five, michael jackson, prince, run dmc, basement jaxx, miho hatori, RJD2, le tigre, the pharmacy, jason webley, mojave 3, the shins, mc chris, the beta band, belle and sebastian, wu tang clan, manfred mann, mouse on mars, t-rex, mf doom, tiny vipers, gorillaz, buckethead, lovage, les claypool, branta, the pharmacy, radiohead, fiona apple, janis joplin, the rolling stones, superchunk, badly drawn boy, the chap, holy ghost revival, patsy cline, franz ferdinand, dresden dolls, ella fitzgerald, artie shaw, bob marley, herby hancock, james brown, matisyahu, cibo matto, billy holiday, beck, les nubians, erika badu, modest mouse, funkadelic, parliment, charles mingus, frank sinatra, the roots, david bowie, carissa'a weird, a tribe called quest, mudhoney, led zepplin, jimi hendricks, toots and the maytals, sunny day real estate, foo fighters, the melvins, sigur ros, frank zappa, simon and garfunkle

films...
kiru, st john's wort, a scanner darkly, district B-13, oldboy, tell me something, the goonies, grandma's boy, run lola run, buffalo '66, a hard day's night, alice in wonderland, kill bill, lock stock and two smoking barrels, requiem for a dream, the princess bride, dumb and dumber, rushmore, peter pan, goodbye lenin, in july, hedwig and the angry inch, snatch, fried green tomatoes, shaun of the dead, planet of the apes, the war zone, the anniversary party, igby goes down, the kid stays in the picture, heaven can wait, lost in translation, scarface, bottle rocket, tank girl, steel magnolias, muriel's wedding, strictly ballroom, peter pan, puff the magic dragon, the fifth element, throughly modern millie, the man who knew too much, life of brian, great expectations, the wizard of oz, virgin suicides, swimming pool, the life aquatic, true romance, rosemary's baby, bonnie and clyde, cactus flower

books:
i read like a mad woman and finish a book everyother day. i figure it isn't too fair to write up only a few, but at the moment i am in awful love with John Steinbeck and Dostoyevsky..also Oscar Wilde!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Netherlands, United States