CURRENT MISSION

Drop presuppositions and LEARN.

ABOUT ME

Student, living in Australia. When I'm not in scrubs, I'm a writer and musician. I love learning, and I've found the best way to do that hearing peoples' stories. You can come away with something worthwhile from any background or worldview.

PHILOSOPHY

"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."

- Kurt Vonnegut.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

For the time being, I'm travelling and have no capacity to host. But that will change, eventually.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

As of right now, most of my couchsurfing has been at the places of various friends in Vancouver and the occasional drunken crash at a friend's place back home in Syd. So it's fairly minimal, but I'm looking to change that, and can't wait to.

Interests

Writing, reading, playing the blues (or any other music), and the outdoors.

• arts
• writing
• literature
• reading
• traveling
• music
• blues
• outdoor activities
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut), Buried Child (Shepard), All Quiet On The Western Front (Remarque), The Book Thief (Zusack), If This Is A Man (Levi), Infinite Jest (Wallace), For Whom The Bell Tolls (Hemingway), The Female Eunuch (Greer), Candide (Voltaire).

Movies: Mystery Road, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Limits of Control, Oldboy, Mysterious Skin, Perro, and basically all David Lynch everything.

Music: Dirty Three, Bill Callahan, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Chance the Rapper, The Underachievers, Andrew Bird, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Dead Meadow, The Drones, Lester Young, TV On The Radio, Explosions In The Sky, Alt-J, Kirin J Callinan, Jack Ladder, Flatbush Zombies, John Lee Hooker, Frank Ocean, Animal Collective, Ennio Morricone, Fishing, Grizzly Bear, Mice Parade, Shellac, Slug Guts, The Bad Plus.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was in Taksim Square and its environs during 'Taksim Square' in 2013.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can wax on literature, music, art, philosophy, social justice, and history until I'm told to shut up or I get lost on some new tangent. But I would never be so arrogant as to say that by the virtue inherent in the aforementioned quality I have a capacity to 'teach' someone anything. Maybe through shared enthusiasm we can come away from meeting with something worthwhile.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Greece, Tanzania, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, United States