HOW I (used to) PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING (when I lived in Oxford) Host and feed several of those dirty/smelling travelers each month. (Our fridge full of french cheese smells worse than all of them put together.) COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I've surfed with and hosted quite a few couchsurfers. The experience is overall very rewarding. UPDATE: Currently live in London and can't host most of the time, apologies travellers.

The following not up-to-date, sorry, will get to it at some point! Books : Too much science and not enough literature. At the moment into Dostoevsky. Music : http://www.last.fm/user/missintheblue (for a not very updated sample). Music is important in my life, but so is silence. Movies : I like indy/alternative films. Some of my favorite directors are Krzysztof Kieslowski, Lars von Trier, Stanley Kubrick, Fatih Akin, Ingmar Bergman, Wim Wenders, Darren Aronofsky, etc.