CURRENT MISSION

NOTE: after receiving an avalanche of copy-paste messages, i won't respond to requests that seem impersonal.

to capture the most common spoken mistakes committed by english-learners and to compile them into a new learning methodology that instructs through errors, from the negative experience of language.

to learn numerous languages.
to photograph the people i meet.

ABOUT ME

noted for my long conversations and excitement over a particular shaft of light or a peculiar floral design appearing in an unexpected place. patient observer of the stories, details, embellishments that make someone definite from others.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

open to showing travelers the underside of rochester, when i am there. now that i am in brooklyn i would love to take couchsurfers to music dens, dive bars or museums. i prefer spending time with the people that i host, so hopefully you write me because you have a similar expectation.

always looking for exposure to other wonderful parts of life and like-minded people.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

have made a few friends through cs in donostia and have been a guest in berkeley, montreal, pamplona and others.

Interests

poetry, photography, cinema, language, postcards, port wine

• poetry
• design
• photography
• wine
• movies
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann --
Nadja, Andre Breton --
About Looking, John Berger --
The Sonnets, Ted Berrigan --
Les Fleurs du Mal, Baudelaire --
Cooling Time, CD Wright --
Madame Bovary, Flaubert

Lyn Hejinian, Keith Waldrop, Eileen Myles, Cole Swensen, John Berryman, ETA Hoffman, Herman Melville, Sappho, Mayakovsky's suicide note...

Pull My Daisy, Sweet Smell of Success, El desencanto, El sol del membrillo, The Little Fugitive, Shadows, Mes petites amoureuses

a fascination for bricks caught alongside Ben Shahn, the flooded pockets of William Kentridge, the blurry urban edges of Anontio López, Albers' squares...

Blind Willie McTell, Lou Reed, Juan Wauters, Television, Nina Simone, Silvio Rodriguez, The Selecter, Tom Waits, THEM, Scott Joplin, Spacemen 3, Jelly Roll Morton, Soledad Bravo, Harry Nilsson, zither music

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i've seen the abandoned head of a cow on the side of a street. i've seen the interiors of abandoned movie theaters. i've seen orchestras tune up from catwalks.

Teach, Learn, Share

can teach english, how to play the ukulele/guitar, how to photograph
hope to learn specific phrases or words in other languages
teach me the words for the colors in your native language

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Azerbaijan, Spain, United States