CURRENT MISSION

becoming academic rockstar

ABOUT ME

Graduate student in cultural anthropology and occasional DJ

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Have informally couch surfed before and am excited about getting into the community after having heard about from fellow travelers in Laos and neighbors back in Brooklyn

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have loved informal couch (and floor) surfing from Berlin to Beijing and have done it CS and HC (Hospitality Club) style in Mexico (Baja California and Chiapas) and in Brazil. I've had Brazilian, Polish, and Italian surfers stay over.

Interests

cultural anthropology, filmmaking, my sister's and my company cinema imperfecta, documentaries, exploring, cooking and being cooked for, dancing, live music, galleries and museums, the ocean, learning to surf

• documentaries
• film making
• dancing
• capoeira
• cooking
• partying
• clubbing
• movies
• music
• live music
• outdoor activities
• surfing
• anthropology

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Dengue Fever, Tom Ze, Diplo, M.I.A., DeVotchka, Lhasa, Calexico, Dusminguet, Nouvelle Vague, Hot Chip, Control Machete, Beck, The Knife, Os Mutantes, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Cocorosie, Devendra Banhart, Rodrigo y Gabriela

Movies: Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Blue Velvet, Hijos de la Guerra, Thievery, Little Children, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Last King of Scotland, 400 Blows, Favela Rising, Amores Perros, Adaptation, 2046, Cidade de Deus, Turtles Can Fly, Wristcutters: A Love Story

Books: Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses, Love in the Time of Cholera, 100 Years of Solitude, If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Triste Tropique

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Yoyogi Park in Tokyo (competing groups of bagpipers, rockabillies, djembe drummers, hip-hop jumpropers, an outdoor rave and an undergound reggae party all rolled into one)

Teach, Learn, Share

I have taught English, capoeira, and Final Cut Pro video editing. I would like to learn fire-twirling and Bollywood dance moves.

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