ABOUT ME

hm... often serious, pensive, brooding - though sometimes will be a bit tourettes-ish and break out in dance, wild wailings - ludic, histrionic and juvenile.

Dogmatic, ruthless, grumpy, intolerant.

Kind and nurturing.

PHILOSOPHY

"At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and yes!!" - Forster

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet! I have just joined.

Interests

Classical Music: history, musicology, and performance. Literature: Victorian and pre-victorian literature mostly; modernist; magical realism (not); minimalism; poetry: contemporary mostly and the Romantics.
Mathematics and Philosophy.

Trying to take myself as seriously as possible.

Being ironic.

Surviving cheerfully.

• literature
• poetry
• performing arts
• dancing
• minimalism
• music
• classical music
• history
• mathematics

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: A Room with a View! - I have an obsessive love for this film. Anything with Lior Ashkenazy. Braveheart (for my wannabe scots heritage), Sound of Music (I watch the puppet scene when I feel depressed on lonely Sundays), Cinema Paradiso, Life is Beautiful, Beautiful Thing, Zoolander (only because it makes me think of my darling Hannah, and laugh with her even in her absence), Doctor Zhivago... Wit... Dramas: films that make me feel...

Music:

Classical:

Bach (senior)
Beethoven ... The three B's
Brahms

Locatelli
Leclair
Handel (his operas and some of his oratorios)
Scarlatti
Haydn
Mozart (operas, sonatas, concerti)
Dvorak
Puccini
Verdi
Catalani
Tchaikovsky
Mendelssohn
Schubert
Schumann
Chopin
Liszt
Rachmaninov
Debussy
Poulenc
Mahler (his symphonies and a minor string quartet especially)
Shostakovich
Scriabin
Profovief
Einojuhani Rautavaara

Rock:

Feist
Radiohead
Smashing Pumpkins
Antony and the Johnsons
Devandra Banhart
Regina Spektor
Dave Matthews
Syd Matters
Cat Power
Joni Mitchell
Mirah
Springbok Nude Grils
The Mountain Goats
Sufjan Stevens
Azure Ray
Broken Social Scene
Bill Withers
Bee Gees
Janis Ian
The Dresden Dolls
Eliot Smith
Ben Harper
Jamiroquai
Leonard Cohen
The Shins
Gomez
Counting Crows
Jeff Buckley
Gemma Hayes
Eva Cassidy
Incubus
Joanna Newsom
Damien Rice
Muse
Tim Buckley
Paul Simon
Tom McRae
Iron & Wine
K's Choice

Jazz:

*shuffle Shuffle*... a little

Books:

Eliot
Dickens
James
Conrad
Tolstoy
Mann
Carver
McCarthy
Ondaatje
Okri
Gallico (children's)
Faulkner
Fowles
Grahame (Wind in the Willows)
LeGuin
Tolkien
Coetzee
Rushdie
Roy
Murdoch
... etc