CURRENT MISSION

To see Japan...all of it!

ABOUT ME

Open. Interested. Enthusiastic. Excitable. Contemplative. A listener. A Non-snorer. A conversationalist. Likes a drink. Loves a party. A smiler. A laugher. A fiend for new experience and knowledge. A friend. A husband. A brother. A son. A traveler.

PHILOSOPHY

Every day, to take a step forward towards myself, and occasionally take a step back just to keep it interesting.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm traveling at the moment but when I'm back in Tokyo, my couch will be a happy parlour of sleep for all those who make it to the city of brightly lights and frenzied serenity.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've couch surfed much of the south of Japan and had an awesome with great people many of whom I hosted back in Tokyo.

Other than that I also like to surf the seats of cars and have bummed rides and picked up others through New Zealand, France, UK, Australia as well as, rather unfortunately, the USA.

Interests

Swimming, yoga, football, theatre, film, music, photography, playing frisbee, Buddhism, skiing, meditation, drinking & socialising, the weird and the wonderful.

• literature
• photography
• film making
• dancing
• yoga
• meditation
• partying
• drinking
• traveling
• cars
• music
• skiing
• buddhist
• soccer
• swimming
• hitchhiking
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I am a Culture Vulture and love talking, watching, visiting & listening to anything which is unique, enlightening, and has it's own identity.

MOVIES: There Will Be Blood, Memento, Adaptation, The Godfather Trilogy, Raging Bull, Leaving Las Vegas, The Great Dictator, Anything by Stanley "The God" Kubrick, David Lynch & Paul Greengrass, most of the Coens' work, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Dark Knight, Heat, The Insider, Se7en, Requiem for a Dream, Festen, The Incredibles, In The Company of Men, Network, All the President's Men, The Pursuit of Happiness, Me, You and Everyone We Know.

TV: Deadwood, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Yes Minister, True Blood, Peep Show, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Twin Peaks, My New Best Friend, The Thick of It, The Office, The League of Gentlemen, House of Cards. Adam Curtis documentaries, Whose Line is it Anyway.

MUSIC: Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Red Snapper, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, The Music, Aphex Twin, Jeff Buckley, The Mars Volta, Cosmic Rough Riders, DJ Shadow, Mozart's operas, The Doors, Mogwai, Nick Drake, Michael Nyman, Nortec Collective.

BOOKS: The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, A Confederacy of Dunces, Into the Wild, Catch 22, Pride and Prejudice, One Hundred Years in Solitude, Fight Club, American Psycho, tons of non-fiction.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhiking down the west coast of the South Island we picked up a ride with two mad Irish women who had a strange obsession for waterfalls. Over the course of a three hour drive, we never saw a living soul and just before we were about to hit the craziness of Lake Wanka, we stop on the side of the road overlooking a visa of rolling hills, crystal clear water and a perfectly reflected rocky expanse and stood...

Never before or since have I experienced the awesome silence of Nature in all it's purity. Just standing and no more; for the briefest of moments we were a true part of the landscape, unencumbered, unthinking...just being.

Teach, Learn, Share

What a great idea!

I know a bit about the theatre, literature, NLP, meditation, yoga, film making, how to rig a political election etc.

I want to learn how to dance, anything that makes me go "ugh!" "ummm..." "what!" or "really?", more about what I already know, about different cultures and philosophies. Let share...

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, France, India, Laos, Malaysia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Nepal, United Kingdom, United States

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