HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I have had people on my couch when I had my own house, and I have surfed others. I have also been on the Couchsurfing Pub Quiz in Portsmouth and hope to get involved in the Panama City group. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Entirely positive!

Movies: 3:10 to Juma, Machuca, Das Experiment, The Edukators, anything by Almodovar, Nil by Mouth, All or Nothing, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, The Machinist, Bowling for Columbine, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Looking for Eric, Catfish Books: The Quiet American by Graham Greene, The Picture of Dorien Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Rum Diaries by Hunter S Thompson, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. Did my dissertation on Crash by J G Ballard but not gonna say I enjoyed that book. Music: Anything i can dance to, Jeff Buckley, Janis Joplin, David Bowie, Rage Against the Machine, Manu Chao, Gogol Bordello, Gipsy CZ, Jamiroquai, Florence and the Machine, A*skillz