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  • Fluent in English; learning French
  • 44, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • philosopher clown.
  • Still learning... hopefully. But I have a couple of unive...
  • From Sydney australia
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

The journey and the experience is the mission. I bought a one way ticket to europe and have been here for 7 months. I have no plans other than to try and experience as much as possible, and embrace the idea of 'yes'... everywhere and anywhere I land.

ABOUT ME

Hopefully I am too complicated to be described in a little box like this! In short though, Im a pretty open minded person, fascinated by people languages and culture... and keen to experience as much of all of them as possible.

PHILOSOPHY

not really driven by one philosophy, never found anything I agree with as a whole.
But honesty in everything comes first...
ptherwise Life is to be lived while you can, and we should all do it the way we believe best.
We are eternally fascinating creatures and im constantly surprised by the people I meet.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

At the moment I am travelling and hoping to meet new people, learn a little about them, their lives and their homes in however small a way that might be. However, whenever I manage to return home to sydney I am keen to return the favour to the world and show a little of my city and my life to anyone interested!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

none yet... but have met plenty of people involved from both sides, all of whom have been interesting and generous.

Interests

Ah... too many to list here, because I have always been a little bit interested in a little bit of everything.
But I love my music (my travelling companion is 160gb ipod), food, drink, the arts, literature, languages... generally just enjoying the company of good people in any venue! (particularly with a drink and some cool music)

  • arts
  • culture
  • literature
  • dining
  • drinking
  • traveling
  • music
  • boxing
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Heaps. too much!... but some?
Movies:
Donnie Darko
The Sum of Us (australian)
Amelie
High fidelity
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
dancer in the dark
city of lost children

books
The master and Maguerita
creation
still life with woodpecker
fierce invalids home from hot climates
kalki
musashi
The dune series

music... hardest of all, because I genuinely like a little of everything... but at the moment am listening to (including ongoing favs)

The National
The Album Leaf
Led Zepplin
The Doors
Emilie Simon
Bjork
Joanna Newsom
Tori Amos
Rage against the Machine
Girl Talk
Jeff Buckley
ali fakir toure
the mountain goats
phoenix
nina simone
edith piaf
mos def
daft punk
whitest boy alive
Diplo
the kills

... ask me!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Every day... but id prefer to talk about it than fill a little white box ont he screen with it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia

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