CURRENT MISSION

I am not currently on a Mission

PHILOSOPHY

Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

it's all been just great

Interests

I make the beer I drink and fix the bikes I ride. I use open-source and free software on old computers that I put together somewhat badly but still manage to run. I help run the Forest Cafe a non-profit volunteer run art-space and vegetarian cafe.

• arts
• beer
• cocktails
• coffee
• vegetarian
• marathon
• running
• drinking
• flowers
• software
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

my favourite film is M*A*S*H but I also really like Jaws and Blade Runner, King of Kong, Dead Man and loads of other ones.

I like 80's American Punk and Hardcore. Bands like Minor Threat, Rich Kids on LSD and Reagan Youth. My favourite song is Bikeage by The Descendents.

Current bands include Free Energy, Woods, Surfer Blood

Local bands I know and Love you should check out and love too: Billy Liar, White Heath, Orkestra Del Sol, Black Cat, Black Diamond Express, Alex and Pockets, The Moullettes, Withered Hand, Asazi Space Funk Explosion and Tokamak

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went to Berlin ran the Marathon, lived in a treehouse and broke into an abandoned themepark.

I organised a 10-course vegetarian banquet for 200 people. It took 10 hours starting with a screen-printed course through Buckfast sorbet, handmade chocolates, dry iced berries, gazpacho with edible flowers, 3 different types of curry, sushi and ending with an 8 foot wide 'cake' atop a pulpit which the guests went inside of. It was filled with hundreds of cupcakes suspending from the ceiling.

My friends converted a church organ to play midi files from a computer..

"The Waldflöte project is a MIDI retrofit to a 1890s Gray and Davison pipe organ located in the Forest Cafe in Edinburgh. It converts MIDI input into solenoid drive to directly press the keys on one of the manuals - there is no permanent modification to the organ."

see Pockets play with it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgxnnFYIaFs

Teach, Learn, Share

I know how to make beer obviously, but also really good pizza, hummus and cocktails.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Canada, Cuba, Jamaica, Philippines, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom