Meeting people of all colours and shapes are one of the main reasons why I travel. Couchsurfing is the BEST way to meet new people when you aren't a party animal

They keep telling me "You are what you eat"......well this is my food: ....Graphic Novels..... Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie (Lost Girls) - Jim Woodring (The Frank Book) - Gilbert Hernandez (Palomar) - Jaime Hernandez (Locas) - David B. (Epilectic) - Craig Thompson (Blankets) - Joe sacco (Palestine) - Chris ware (Jimmi Corrigan) - Alex Robinson (Tricked) - Charles Burnes (Black Hole) - Frank Miller (300) - Jason (Hey wait) - Adrian Tomine (Summer Blonde) - Chester Brown (The Playboy) - James Kochalga (American Elf) - Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) - Jason Lutes (Berlin) - Mattotti (Fire) - Schuiten+Peeters (Cities of the Fantastic) - Enki Bilal (Nikopol Trilogy) - George Herrimann (Krazy & Ignatz) - Daniel Cloves (Ghost World) .....Music..... John Adams - John Cage - The Knife - Györgi Ligeti - Dead Can Dance - Philip Glass - Pan Sonic - The Cure - Astor Piazzolla - Henryk Gorecki - Depeche Mode - Steve Reich - Morton Feldman - Scott Walker -- Nick cave and the Bad Seeds -- DAF -- Davis Sylvian -- Diamanda Galas -- Alva Noto -- Autechre -- Prince -- Rufus & Martha Wainwright -- Patrick Wolf -- PJ Harvey -- Robyn -- When saints Go Machine -- David Bowie - The Clash -- The Smiths -- Morrissey -- Nitzer Ebb -- Gui Boratto -- The Raveonettes -- John Grant -- James Blake -- Hooray for Earth -- Sigur Ros -- Beach House -- too many to mention...... .....Movies..... The following directors (in no particular order) have inspired/enriched my life: --Satoshi Kon --Bruce LaBruce --Gregg Araki --Akira Kurosawa --Gus van Sant --Werner Herzog --Fritz Lang --Alejandro Jodorowsky --Darren Aronofsky --Harmony Korine --Pier Paolo Pasolini --Lars von Trier --Peter Greenaway --Dario Argento --George A Romero --Sam Raimi --John Carpenter --John Waters --Steven Spielberg --Ingmar Bergman --Andrei Tarkowsky --Roman Polanski --Wim Wenders --P.T. Anderson --David Lynch --Kim Ki-Duk --Joon-ho Bong --Tsai Ming-Liang --Woody Allen --Stanley Kubrick --David Lean --Bryan Singer --Peter Jackson --Wong Kar-Wai --Ang Lee --Takeshi Kitano --John Cassavetes --David Cronenberg --Jasujiro Ozu --Luchino Visconti --Federico Fellini --Rainer Werner Fassbinder --Terry Gilliam --Jean-Luc Goddard --Jim Jarmusch --Carl Theodor Dreyer --Luis Bunuel --Sergei M. Eisenstein --Michelangelo Antonioni --Jean Cocteau --Wes Anderson --Alfred Hitchcock --Chan-Wook Park .....Contemporary dance.... DV8 Physical Theatre -- Batsheva Dance Company -- Nederlands Dans Theater -- Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company -- La La La Human Steps -- Les Ballets C de la B -- Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch -- Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker -- Danish Dance Theatre --Sasha Waltz -- Michael Clark Company .....Books..... Scott Treleaven (The Salivation Army) -- William S. Burroughs (EVERYTHING) -- Suzanne Brøgger (Brøg) - Salman Rushdie (The Satanic Verses) -- Clive Barker (Books of Blod and more of less everything else) -- Edgar Allen Poe - Nick Cave (And the ass saw the Angel) -- Mitch Cullin -- The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 nights -- Homer -- Ovid -- Charles Bukowsky -- Saint Exupéry -- Jack Keruoac -- J.G. Ballard -- Bret Easton Ellis -- J.R.R. Tolkien -- Umberto Eco -- Fjodor Dostojevskij -- Alan Moore -- Karen Blixen -- Hans Christaian Andersen -- Franz Kafka -- Stephen King -- James Joyce -- Virgil