ABOUT ME

A friend once said "George, I do not believe anything you say but, I trust you". My eyes welled up a bit. But I think he got it right.

PHILOSOPHY

Philosophies are for people trying to sell stuff

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Mostly I try to avoid couchsurfing.org, I believe in doing it like normal people used to do, you meet someone from out of town at a bar or cafe, ask them if they have somewhere to stay or if they want to go see something around town, them help them out. I make friends like this who I then stay with when I travel overseas. When I travel, the friends I have made around the world dictate where I go, but if I really want to go somewhere and I don't know anyone, couchsurfing.org gets used.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Following on from above mostly it has been people staying with me in New Zealand, whether they are members of couchsurfing.org or not.

Interests

Since I was a kid and my parents would bring home random Germans and Americanos to stay at our place I was fascinated with people from different countries, the funny way they said things, the way they lived, all the different things they did. Now im older I understand we are all the same but these little differences we have are still awesome.

• concerts
• traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Goddarders, wes anderson, gomorrah, taxi driver, sofia copploa

Music: ghosts and stuff, early 80s hardcore, die hunns, yardbirds, big L, early 90's epitaph, french things like air, daft punk, nouvelle vague, hipster stuff like lcd soundsystem and diplo, i like devo, cat power, atmosphere, velvet underground, soundgarden are proberly the best rock band ever, some new things, things on the radio like led zepplin and pat benatar, also everything my parent listen too like neil young and james taylor and dad listens to heaps of blues, like those old black dudes with amazing names

Books: basically just read the Martin Beck series, currently reading on the road

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Pixies concert, Kim Deal had this huge smile on her face for the whole show

Teach, Learn, Share

I like to hear the stories of people who have different lives to me, I share some of my stories and the stories I have heard from others, stories are pretty age old, still work though

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Laos, Netherlands, Samoa, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Denmark, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States