Hi! My name's Joel. I'm a 25 year old visual artist from Newcastle, UK, and i'm currently living in Bristol, UK.

I love to travel, connect with people from all over the world and enjoy new experiences. I consider myself a kind and open-minded person - i'm honest and talkative but always willing to listen to someones' story.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

This is my first time on couch-surfing. I thought it would be a wonderful way to meet people while i'm travelling around Spain and Greece for the next few months.

In the near future i would love to return the favour, i think this site promotes such a valuable exchange and i'm very excited be involved :)

Interests

• arts
• poetry
• street art
• film making
• music festivals
• italian food
• meditation
• traveling
• music
• live music
• electronic music
• kayaking
• trekking
• film
• litterature
• philosphy

Music, Movies, and Books

Favourite Music: Kanye West, Four Tet, Nas, A tribe called quest, Young Thug, Alice Coltrane, Arca, Arthur Russell, Cinematic Orchestra, Nina Simone, Fela Kuti, Jessy Lanza, DOOM, Joy Division, Lotic, Lauren Hill,

Favourite Authors: Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Charlotte Brontë, Camus, Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre, Georges Bataille, E. E. Cummings, Chinua Achebe, Slavoj Žižek, Sylvia Plath.

Favourite Directors: David Lynch, Jean-Luc Goddard, Jim Jarmusch, Joshua Oppenheimer, Andrea Arnold, Carol Morley, Steve McQueen, Ben Wheatley, Kar-Wai Wong, Kathryn Bigelow, Frederick Wiseman, Zhangke Jia.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've recently come back from South-East Asia, where i volunteered to make a fundraising film for a small school within a refugee camp on the boarder of Burma.

The whole experience was invaluable, the students were wonderful and it was a real pleasure to offer my skills to an organisation for them to continue to run their wonderful school.

What I Can Share with Hosts

A Hard-drive full of movies from all around the world, an appetite for live music, great (hopefully) conversation, tasty food (i'm really into cooking Italian) and an open mind.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Cambodia, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Laos, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Spain, Thailand, Viet Nam, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Spain