ABOUT ME

audio work: production, sound design, and recording; movie dork; bike geek; music dweeb

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm very excited to share what I know about my city, meeting new people, and showing newcomers all of the secret treasures buried in the city where I live.

Interests

vegetarianism & veganism, animals & animal rights, bicycling (mountain and track/urban messenger), gadgets, hullabaloo, video games, BBC comedies, cinema, swashbuckling, avid & encyclopedic interest in all things related to pirates, roller derby, warm summer nights in richmond with a cold pbr, tea, technology loop-holes, fine haberdashery, parrots

• animals
• design
• technology
• movies
• video games
• music
• cycling
• track and field

Music, Movies, and Books

the clash, the business, mary prankster, stiff little fingers, ramones, god speed you black emperor!, talking heads, brian eno, no trend, franz ferdinand, snow patrol, cocksparrer, the zutons, interpol, the killers, the von bondies, the libertines, radiohead, stellastarr*, wagner, my chemical romance, bad religion, gwar, die toten hosen, wizo, grandaddy, pedro the lion, the pixies, the soviettes, richard cheese and lounge against the machine, stereophonics, the streets, sex pistols, modest mouse, jet, johnny cash, muse, hot hot heat, the specials, esquivel, kaiser chiefs, yeah yeah yeahs, secret machines, radio birdman, ash, gorillaz, bad brains, television personalities, lower class brats, the devotchkas, avail, eels, our lady peace, nobuo uematsu, lady sovereign, hurrah torpedo;

night of the living dead, dawn of the dead, day of the dead, return of the living dead, 28 days later, zombie, cannibal holocaust, donnie darko, amelie, run lola run, nosferatu, shock waves, modern times, a clockwork orange, metropolis, the bad seed, milo and otis, the boondock saints, groundhog day, lord of the rings, the marriage of maria braun, the imposters, ed wood, shaun of the dead, lost highway, reservoir dogs, pulp fiction, kill bill vol. 1, kill bill vol. 2, snatch, lock stock and two smoking barrels, battle royale, fargo, mulholland drive, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, alien, aliens, alien 3, alien resurrection, wallace and gromit: a grand day out, wallace and gromit: the wrong trousers, wallace and gromit: a close shave, wallace and gromit: the curse of the were-rabbit, stripes, ghostbusters, ghostbusters II, mullholland drive, beetlejuice, edward scissorhands, sleepy hollow, nightmare before christmas, vincent, 400 blows, the bicycle thief, harold and maud, delicatessen, city of lost children, ilsa: she wolf of the s.s., the invisible invaders, the day the earth stood still, the cabinet of dr. caligari, ultimo mondo cannibale, tombs of the blind dead, jacob's ladder, der krieger und die kaiserin, spinal tap, captain blood, the black swan, django, django strikes back! ...

hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy; the restaurant at the end of the universe; life, the universe, and everything; so long and thanks for all the fish; mostly harmless; roderick the robot; roderick at random; catch-22; trainspotting; slaughter house five; bunnicula; the lord of the rings; the silmarillion; the mysterious stranger; a field guide to the urban hipster; the zombie survival manual; rotten; england's dreaming; lipstick traces (on a cigarette); the zombie encyclopedia; the parrot who owns me; 1984; brave new world; all quiet on the western front; harry potter; jennifer government; cosmos; dragons of eden; broca's brain; america: the book; shogun; hairstyles of the damned; do androids dream of electric sheep?

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I still think it's pretty amazing that I gave my own knee sutures after a mountain biking accident.

As for seen, I'm consistently in awe of the Outer Banks in North Carolina.

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