CURRENT MISSION

Crossing off a very long bucket list

ABOUT ME

I am usually a hoster of couchsurfers in Melbourne along with my housemates Itir and Kate.

I am more or less a happy guy, because I've lived my life more or less the way I've wanted to...I suppose I wouldn't mind being be taller. I am curious by nature, which has gotten me into trouble on more than one occasion. I love conversation, about books, art, travel and ridiculous things. I am a few contrasts: ridiculous and serious, open and introverted, crude and articulate, cautious and reckless, easily fascinated and easily bored. I spend time with people and time by myself in equal measure.

I could happily eat oreos until I die of chocolate-cream poisoning.

I work as an artist and in publishing.

I could happily eat hotdogs until I die of frankfurter poisoning.

Melbourne is home.

A Lithuanian musician once wrote a song about me while we were in Africa. There's even a film clip.

I drink way too much coffee.

My favourite artist is Robert Rauschenberg.

My great-grandfather was an American Vaudeville entertainer.

PHILOSOPHY

None yet, ask me when I'm sixty.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted many couchsurfers through my housemates in Melbourne and met some great people. Now that I am on the the road again, I have only recently joined the couch surfing community.

Interests

• arts
• books
• chocolate
• coffee
• drinking
• traveling
• music
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Authors: Galway Kinnell, Raymond Carver, Herman Hesse, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George Orwell, JD Salinger, JM Coetzee, David Malouf, William Faulkner, William Shakespeare, Phillip Roth, Samual Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, many others

Music: Boards of Canada, Suicide, Animal Collective, Horse Macgyver, The Who, Pink Floyd, Deerhunter, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Florence and the Machine, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Schubert, Susumu Yokota, Sufjan Stevens,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travelling from Cape Town to Addis Ababa over land. Through Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Uganda and many others. The wildest, most incredible experience of my life.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Kenya, Malawi, Netherlands, Peru, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom