CURRENT MISSION

get some articles published!

PHILOSOPHY

Fill with mingled cream and amber
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chambers of my brain.
Quaintest thoughts--queerest fancies,
come to life and fade away:
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.

Edgar Allan Poe

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I joined couchsurfing because I enjoy nothing more than surrounding myself with people from all over the world. This is also exactly why I live in New York City! I have couchsurfed in Brasil, and have hosted in Brooklyn surfers from Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway. I am not currently hosting because my roomate and I now have a friend from Germany living with us.

Interests

music, concerts, punk shows, classic cocktails, Brooklyn, Martini Bianco, photography, açai, horticulture, organic food, Brasil, Spain, cheap airfare, the written word, salt from faraway lands, making jewlery, taro root bread, okra, ground cherries, calla lillies, Orangina, fireflies, street fairs, swedish fish, classic cars, tattoos, yuca, lightning storms, French wine, languages, world beers, tea, eastern medicine, any country that i haven't yet traveled, fried plantains. and my cat, Edo. he is a Russian, has the agility of a squirrel, and hangs from the fire escape by his tail.

• pets
• cats
• chickens
• fish
• performing arts
• photography
• tattoos
• concerts
• dining
• wine
• beer
• cocktails
• organic food
• partying
• drinking
• clothing
• billiards
• cars
• music
• equestrian
• fishing
• camping
• languages
• medicine
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

I go to shows all the time. I have discovered many types of music in my 29 years, but punk rock was definitely my first love. Perhaps I would not be who I am today without the influence (corruption?) of the following sweet sweet artists: el guincho, the germs, operation ivy, m.i.a., the bodysnatchers, the specials, die antwoord, yeah yeah yeahs, nina simone, the slits, the pogues, bessie smith, crass, the velvet underground, x, edith piaf, johnny cash, creedence clearwater revival, fu-schnickens, run dmc, desmond dekker, rancid, sublime, latyrx, pharcyde, bad religion, toots & the maytals, bikini kill, a tribe called quest, beastie boys, andre nickatina, das efx, tupac, chubb rock, bob dylan, the misfits, hole, julie ruin, le tigre, x-ray spex, LiLiPUT, dance hall crashers, vive la fête, hank williams, digable planets, fugees, social distortion, the queers, joanna erdos a.k.a. the midnight show, patsy cline, bob marley, the clash, beck, babes in toyland, rio bailé funk, gogol bordello, lhasa de sela, amy winehouse, georges brassens, jimmy cliff, de la soul, roy orbison, the slackers, the pixies, and last but most definitely not least- tim armstrong

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

spent a year in la France, sailed the Mediterranean, stole a raft and stranded myself in the middle of the Seine River on Halloween night, swam with sea turtles in Belize, played with monkeys in Marrakech, broke my nose in Brasil, got tattooed by a world-famous artist in Paris, witnessed an entire night of lightning storms from a plane over the Amazon, learned to drive in a '73 Monte Carlo, saw Tom Jones perform at the Fresno Fair when I was probably 7, dj'd one night in Panamá, accidentally kissed a bum one night in NYC, taught English to computer nerds in Paris, bartended for a night in Morocco, saw the Passion Play in Oberammergau Germany in 2010, got lost for hours in Brussels during the nuit blanche, puked all over the train station in Amsterdam, survived driving the Highway to Heaven in Costa Rica, once got myself thrown into a freezing pool in the middle of February with my clothes on, once emerged from the pit at NOFX bleeding from the ear (notice they are NOT on my favorite band list!), raised baby chickens in my bathtub in Clovis, lived in a teepee on my aunt's indian reservation near Reno, also helped build a sweatlodge at the reservation, experienced the wonders of a nude beach in Italy, watched the most magical meteor showers one night while camping in California, got a hand-written letter from Kathleen Hanna when I was 16, experienced the sensational festivities of a pre-Carnaval party in Olinda-Brasil, let a very friendly snake sleep wrapped around my belly everyday in high school, once had a pet black widow that I kept in a jar and fed flies, got absolutely accosted along las Ramblas in Barcelona on New Year's eve, galloped horseback along the shores of República Dominicana, flew in a helicopter over Rio de Janeiro, saw Bob Dylan perform, tried to get drunk on non-alcoholic beer when i was 14, ate chickens feet and seahorse soup with my 'adoptive' chinese family, chased a black bear into the woods with a frying pan, went to my best friend's 1920s wedding in Menorca, drove my Dodge Dart along the sand of Capitola beach in Santa Cruz, wandered through a favela in Rio where i saw 17 year olds toting guns and selling crack, once cried for a week straight, swam out past the breakers in the Pacific when I was 8 years old, herded cattle in the Sierra Nevadas, gathered dirt from Kurt Cobain's house in Seattle, gathered sea glass from the Adriatic sea, got myself thrown off a motorcycle in downtown Manhattan, watched the sunrise from atop my roof in Brooklyn.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Panama, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States

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