CURRENT MISSION

Survival into the 22nd Century!

ABOUT ME

If you were to dream of two people in their early thirties holding hands as they saunter through swirling early morning mist, birds not yet aflutter, an uncertain streetlight flickering, the aroma of fresh baked oatmeal cookies in the still-cool air...

That wouldn't be us. You're dreaming about someone else. Think Bonnie and Clyde. Think Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and the Countess Sophie Chotek. Think Ted Hughes and Sylvia. Now imagine if all those unions worked.

That's us.

PHILOSOPHY

"Music, Goethe said, is the frozen tapioca in the ice chest of History."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We've slept on the couches of just about everyone we know.

Interests

• birds
• cheese
• survival
• music
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Almost any film by: Wong Kar Wai, Wim Wenders, Kubrick, Charlie Kaufman, Lars von Trier, Wes Anderson, Vincent Gallo, Coen Brothers, Zhang Yimou

Music: Royal City, Magnetic Fields, Joanna Newsom, CocoRosie, The Sadies, Iron & Wine, Beck, The Barmitzvah Brothers, That guy I heard playing violin in the subway at St. George station in Toronto, Luna, Neko Case, The Modern Lovers, Jim Guthrie, The Burning Hell, Eric Satie, Duke Ellington, Bonny Prince Billy, The Unicorns, Stereolab, Calexico, Arcade Fire, Kid Koala, Gene Pitney, Tortoise, Tom Waits, The Kiss and Tells, Wolf Parade, The Islands, Vincent Gallo, The Velvet Underground, The Flaming Lips, Yo La Tengo, Belle and Sebastian, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, The Handsome Family, Do Make Say Think, The Detroit Cobras, Andre Williams, Howe Gelb, The Supersuckers, The Silverhearts, Emmylou Harris, John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Michelle Shocked

Authors we have loved: Nabokov, Coetzee, Oscar Wilde, Seamus Heaney, Simon Armitage, Henry James, Pynchon, Paul Muldoon, Jane Bowles, Virginia Woolf, Cicero, Homer, Shakespeare, John Ashbery, Delillo, Philip K Dick, Philip Roth, Wallace Stevens, Art Spiegelman, John Ruskin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Cormac McCarthy, Herman Hesse, Robert Bringhurst, Richard Brautigan, Michael Ondaatje, Kafka, Donald Barthelme, Flaubert, Rilke, Walt Whitman, Hemingway, James Joyce, Borges, Gabe Foreman, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino, Camus, Ovid, Ted Hughes, Derrida, John Ondrovcik, Gertrude Stein, Paul Muldoon, Christopher Dewdney, The Diviners, Paul Auster, Jeremy Dodds, Don Paterson, Karen Solie, Virginia Woolf, John Banville, Ken Babstock, Jean Baudrillard, Auden, Thomas King, Julian Barnes, Milan Kundera

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Saint-André cheese

Teach, Learn, Share

U is the twenty-first letter in the English alphabet. It can be found in such words as "such", "fun", "could've", "spun", "out", "uncontrollably".

Countries I’ve Visited

Egypt, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, China, Israel