I'm currently studying full-time at Lancaster University, UK, but spend my holidays back home in High Wycombe, near London.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm looking to meet new people abroad and get the kind of more authentic experience from travelling that you don't really get from hotels...

Interests

I'm keen on writing and am currently writing my second novel. In my spare time, I write a few articles for Artrocker, The Indiependent (music blog) and my own website The Carmine Project. I also do a little work for printed magazine Darkus.

Other than that, I'm also teaching myself guitar very slowly and am learning to speak a little French very badly.

• writing
• books
• traveling
• blogging
• music
• guitar

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: The Libertines, The Strokes, The Coral, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Darlia, Wolf Alice, Helsinki, Dirty Pretty Things, The Stooges, The Kills, The Velvet Underground, Nirvana, The Kinks, David Bowie, Queens of the Stone Age, Babyshambles, Sonic Youth, The Smiths, Oasis, Led Zep, Pink Floyd...

Movies: The English Patient, Full Metal Jacket, American History X, Almost Famous, Big Fish, Trainspotting, His Girl Friday, Jackie Brown, Moonrise Kingdom, Donnie Darko

Books: The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, The Sea Close By [Albert Camus], Nausea [Jean Paul Sartre], The Catcher in the Rye [J.D. Salinger], The Bell Jar [Sylvia Plath], Lolita [Nabokov], The Master and Margarita [Bulgakov], The Picture of Dorian Gray [Oscar Wilde]

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom