ABOUT ME

At the age of 15 I undid my cornrows, took off my bandana, removed my oversized faux diamond earring and reluctantly abandoned my lifelong dream of being a rapper. I then inserted a smaller faux diamond earring, dyed fashionably located tufts of my hair blonde, donned some Armani jeans and dabbled with fashion-conscious metrosexuality. Uninspired by a materialistic lifestyle, I travelled to South America, where I acquired a Colombian mochila (not a man purse), pierced the top of my ear and stopped washing my hair. All three phases have left their mark on me, though I now identify more with Manu Chao than with Eminem or Cristiano Ronaldo, my former idols.

I'm relaxed to the point of being lazy, though I'm much more active when travelling, I love listening and learning from new people and I'm always up for trying something new that doesn't involve skinning and eating dead things, though I won't get in your way if that's what you're into.

兴趣

Watching and playing football, travelling, languages, playing guitar, reading, dancing rudimentary samba and salsa to a level that is used to impress the arrhythmic Brits but falls flat abroad, beer, watching documentaries and films, seeing live music, learning interesting but useless facts.

• fashion
• documentaries
• oktoberfest
• dancing
• beer
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• live music
• guitar
• skydiving
• soccer
• languages

音乐、电影和书籍

Movies: City of God, Almodovar films, Tarantino films, Enter the Void,

Music: Manu Chao, Seu Jorge, Rodrigo y Gabriela, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Jurassic 5, Dead Prez, Eminem (early albums), Bonobo, Cymande, Toots and the Maytals, Bob Dylan

Books:
David Foster Wallace - The Broom of the System
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
John Darnielle - Wolf in White Van
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Christopher Hitchens - god Is Not Great
Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
George Orwell - everything
Gabriel Garcia Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Christopher Hitchens - God is not Great
Derren Brown - Tricks of the Mind
Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
QI - The Book of General Ignorance, The Book of Animal Ignorance, The Book of the Dead, Advanced Banter

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Skydiving on an exceptionally severe hangover after attending the third biggest Oktoberfest in the world in Villa General Belgrano, Argentina.

Racing friends down a white sand dune into azure lagoons in the Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil.

Ogling the Taj Mahal.