CURRENT MISSION

To trace the visionary company of love (its voice an instant in the wind)

ABOUT ME

Canadian (from Toronto) currently living and studying in Chicago. Had great experiences couchsurfing all over Europe during a year abroad in Germany, and made lots of wonderful friends. Now I'm working on a PhD, but I still try to get out and travel now and again!

PHILOSOPHY

Emerson, Wittgenstein, Cavell, Heidegger, Augustine, Nietzsche

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Couchsurfing has provided me with some of my most indelible memories of other places and people. It's introduced me to the insides of other cultures, the living, breathing organism. I have never met a single couchsurfer who was less than gracious, generous, and enthusiastic about the project. That in itself says something!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

... midnight tour of Dresden.
... last-minute lunch and photoshoot, five minutes before a train!
... Koreans and Russians and Americans (oh my) in Helsinki.
... standing (or staggering) around pubs in Glasgow.

Interests

music, crazy schemes, curling (the sport), formatting, humanity, introspective weather, love, cooking, people, piano, quotations, reading, writing

• writing
• cooking
• pub crawls
• reading
• traveling
• music
• piano
• sports
• last minute travel

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Fiery Furnaces, Vampire Weekend, CocoRosie, Joni Mitchell, Broken Social Scene, Norah Jones, Iron & Wine ...

Both Viennese schools, Bach, Brahms, Mahler, Britten, Ives, Adams (both), Lachenmann ...

Movies:
Murnau, Dreyer, Haneke, Woody Allen, Mike Leigh, Spielberg, Malick, Kubrick ...

Ordet, Into the Wild, Happy-Go-Lucky, A.I., Code Inconnu, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Night of the Hunter, Barry Lyndon, Beau Travail ...

Books (a few highlights):
The Sea, John Banville
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
Native Speaker, Chang-Rae Lee
Then We Came To The End, Joshua Ferris
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Lolita, Nabokov

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Sächsische Schweiz!!

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