CURRENT MISSION

Improve in some current interests and lose interest in some others.

ABOUT ME

Ex classical musician, ex jazz musician, ex Celtic musician - current Americana and Cabaret musician. I mainly try to write over any of these genres, but select where I play now very carefully as it ios not my main interest. Sing, play various instruments to various standards.

Wide interests in all arts.

PHILOSOPHY

Eternal is the warrior who finds beauty in his wounds.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Looking to travel and explire music throughout world, so looking to particpate here before that, in (probably) 2015, though something else may turn up?

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Travelled as a musician, often stayiong as guest of organisers or promoters in various situations.

Interests

The arts, theatre, music, painting, sculpture, world cinema, rugby, squash, cooking, fine wines, malt whisky of the Islands in the main, golf...

• arts
• singing
• beauty
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• painting
• music
• classical music
• jazz
• rugby
• racquetball
• golf
• squash

Music, Movies, and Books

Far too many, though :-
Songwriter/Rock
Tom Waits
Rickie Lee Jones
Sigur Ros
Drugstore
John Prine
Nick Cave
Micah P Hinson
Mercury Rev
Sparklehorse
Ron Sexsmith
Magnetic fields
Amanda Palmer / Dresden Dolls
Regina Spektor
Nitin Sawney

Jazz
Shirley Horn
Sonny Clark
Blossom Dearie
Miles Davis
Billie Holiday
Oscar Peterson
Diane Krall
Paul Gonsalves
Ben Webster
Ella Fitzgerald

Classical - too many to name!

Withnail and I
All Coen Brothers films, particularly Big Lebowski, Fargo and Man with No Name
Delicatessen
Short Cuts
Bicycle Thieves
Amelie
Wild Strawberries
Best in Show

John Kennedy Toole - Confederacy of Dunces
Donna Tartt - Secret History
Saul Bellow - Tale of Augie Marsh
Jonathon Franzen - The Corrections
John Updike - Rabbit series
Geoff Dyer - But Beautiful
Neil Gaiman - American Gods
All - Annie E Proux - partic Shipping News
All - Roberstson Davies - partic What's Bred in the Bone
Cormac McCarthy - Various, but not all
Paul Micou - Music Programme
Larry Baker - Flamingo Rising

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Daughter being born 18 years ago still tops sights seen.