CURRENT MISSION

build my own house in a remote wilderness

ABOUT ME

Hmmm...

...composer and performer, bookworm, nomadic type, aspiring gourmand...er, gourmet!, poet, percussionist, coffee-addict, eternal student, compulsive doodler, renaissance man, open-minded, absent-minded, pen-chewing, easy-going, inquisitive, friendly, daft Irishman.

PHILOSOPHY

Keep asking questions! Stay curious... Share your life with those around you.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Making new friends, both on the road and at home.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Having both hosted and surfed in a variety of places, I declare CS to be a truly fantastic concept! It feeds my appetite for unexpected conversations, chance encounters, and new friendships (and roughing it on random sofas!).

Interests

Music, music, MUSIC...from free improvisation to folksong to hiphop to electronica to hardcore punk to early opera...it runs in my veins! When I'm not playing some sort of instrument then I'm listening to music, recording it, writing about it, thinking about it, dreaming...you get the idea.

I also enjoy rock climbing, cycling, photography, Gaelic sports (check them out, all you non-Irish!), cooking, poetry, circus skills, painting, hiking, chess, long rambling conversations, cinema, boardgames and COFFEE

• literature
• poetry
• photography
• cooking
• coffee
• movies
• board games
• chess
• painting
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• rock climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - Genghis Tron, Gastr del Sol, Death Vessel, Nicholas Jaar, Kayo Dot, Acoustic Ladyland, Mark Deutsch, Gentle Giant, The Mars Volta, Jeff Lang, Burial, Terry Riley, Tunng, Morton Feldman, Zu, Six Organs of Admittance, Punch Brothers, Aesop Rock ...and thousands more.

Films - Upstream Colour, La Haine, Time of the Wolf, Howl's Moving Castle, The Fall, La Double Vie de Véronique, Wrong Move, Stalker, Twelve Monkeys, Le Diable Probablement, A Scanner Darkly, A Very Long Engagement, Babel, Millenium Actress, The White Ribbon, The Usual Suspects, Darbâreye Eli, No Country for Old Men, Amores Perros, City of Lost Children, Byzantium , Spirited Away, City of God, Jean de Florette, The Lobster, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rififi, Delicatessen, House of Flying Daggers, Crimson Gold, Tekkonkinkreet, There Will Be Blood, The Science of Sleep...

Writers - Basho, John Cage, Graham Greene, Italo Calvino, Dostoyevsky, Rilke, Morton Feldman, Douglas Adams, Tolkein, David Toop, Charles Shultz, E.F. Schumacher, Bei Dao, Jaron Lanier, Kerouac, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Terry Pratchett, Borges, John le Carré, Steinbeck, Thoreau... I grew up with no TV so this list could also be very long!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Visiting the caves at Jeita جعيتا‎ in Lebanon.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Northern Ireland, United States

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