40 year old guy from Dublin. Don't travel all that much but maybe I should :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Just looking around really.

Interests

• poetry
• music
• live music
• independent cinema
• independent music

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Richmond Fontaine, American Music Club, Richard Buckner, The National, Okkervil River, The Fall, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Vic Chesnutt, Bill Callahan, Bob Dylan, Elbow, Max Richter, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, The Go-Betweens, Destroyer, Public Enemy, The Triffids, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Hold Steady, Tom Waits, The Wrens, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Lee Perry, Miles Davis. http://www.last.fm/user/darrenstallard

Movies: Lola, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, White Heat, Lift to the Scaffold, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, In the Mood for Love, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, Le Feu Follet, Breathless, Wings of Desire, The Wild Bunch
Good Night, and Good Luck, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Delicatessen, A Woman Under the Influence, The Merchant of Venice, The Godfather, Psycho, Goodfellas, Requiem for a Dream, Taxi Driver, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Vertigo, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Jaws, The Birds, Downfall, Amadeus, Casablanca, The Deer Hunter, The Secret in Their Eyes, Citizen Kane, Magnolia, Annie Hall, Raging Bull, A Streetcar Named Desire, Donnie Brasco. http://www.imdb.com/list/ls007831226/

Books: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/13475176-darren-stallard?shelf=read

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Don't think I am someone who says they have done amazing things. Yeuch!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Philippines, Scotland, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

France