CURRENT MISSION

Givin' my passport a workout!

ABOUT ME

Born and bred in California, educated in New York, spent two years in Paris with my Frenchie boy, and now reside in Melbourne Australia.

PHILOSOPHY

Down with the dominant paradigm! Or something like that.....

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Couchsurfed my way around Europe in 2007 and met some amazing people. We only hosted a few people in Paris because of the size of our studio, but often met up with fellow cs'ers at home and abroad for drinks and hi-jinks. Now I am proud to say that some of my closest friends were met through couchsurfing!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed all around Europe in 2007. Hosted a number of people while living in Paris and Melbourne, but mostly participate through CS community events in town now.

Interests

history, urban studies, german studies, politics, educational policy, avocados, libraries, coffee, roaming, cocktails, swimming in rivers, cocker spaniels, making things, industrial ruins, ruins of antiquity, ruins of modernity, rooftops, secret gardens, farmers markets, 16th century maps, 18th century playing cards, newspapers, rock n roll, time travel, tattoos, rust, obsolete societies, thriving societies, snow globes....

• tattoos
• dining
• cocktails
• coffee
• drinking
• politics
• traveling
• swimming
• cartography
• history
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: Muhlholland Drive, Amadaeus, Heavenly Creatures, Atomic Cafe, Manhattan, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, Au Revoir Les Enfants, Red/White/Blue Trilogy, You're Gonna Miss Me, Crumb, Back to the Future, City of God, Amerros Perros, Goodfellas, Blue Velvet, Moon, The Others.

Music: Bowie, Patsy Cline, Motown, Chopin, The Shangri-La's, Gang of Four, Bessie Smith, the Cure, Ratatat, Concrete Blonde, Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, X, Leonard Cohen, Edith Piaf, Springsteen, Depeche Mode, T Rex.

Books: Lolita, Shot in the Heart, The Shock Doctrine, Death in Venice, In Cold Blood, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play it as it Lays, 1984, The Great Deluge, Pride and Prejudice, The Duchess, The Passage, Replay, a million other books related to the social sciences....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travelling across the US on amtrak, when someone believed that they had seen anthrax powder in the dining car. The CDC boarded in hazmat suits and determined that the "anthrax" was actually sugar.

Riding a marshuka bus through the Ukraine one dusky Autumn evening with a bunch of Ukranian and Polish ciggerette smugglers. We drove madly across the countryside, past little farms, onion domed churches, horse drawn carts, Catholic shrines, and Soviet statues. Ukranian beats erupted from the radio and everyone ate sunflower seeds and shared shots of cherry vodka.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Laos, Netherlands, Poland, Samoa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France, United States

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