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Overview

  • 67 references 43 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, Spanish
  • 34, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • writer-editor-wikipedia reader
  • Social Science at Cambridge
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

After a lot of couchsurfing 10-15 years ago, I'm finally travelling again and excited to rediscover what couchsurfing looks like today!

I love films, books, history, science, board games, sci-fi/fantasy and dinosaurs.

I do not smoke, and I'm triple vaccinated. I'm not good at cooking but I'm great at washing dishes and happy to help with any chores! I'm very clean and I promise I don't snore!

I'm easy going but well organised. I would like to meet hosts and other locals who are willing to spend time with me - I won't treat your home like a hotel!

I live in London but recently spent a few years in California.

I'm traveling solo and have no pets.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've done a lot of surfing, mainly in America and Europe, and also some hosting when I lived in Cambridge. I've had nothing but really positive experiences in the past. I cannot express my extreme and astonished gratitude to all the amazing people who've hosted me, and my admiration for those who've been my guests. I wish I could get you all together and go found a new planet or something.

Interests

I've just come back to my profile and discovered this insanely long list of interests that I wrote in 2009! Some of this is very embarrassing and a lot of it has changed but I find it funny so I thought I'd keep it:

Climate change
Pure Reason Revolution
Gormenghast
Monty Python
The Beatles
Batman
xkcd.com
You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
Inglourious Basterds
The Adams Family (original 1991 film, especially Raul Juliá)
The Lord of the Rings
Cynicism
Y: The Last Man (also Saga and BKV in general)
The Prisoner (TV series)
Game of Thrones
Scooby Doo
Julie d'Aubigny ("La Maupin")
S.E.Hinton
Robert Frost
Community (show)
Frozen
The Guild, VGHS, Space Janitors, Squaresville and other great web series
Tim Minchin
Gérard de Nerval
Astronautics and NASA and Hubble
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid/The Sting
David Mitchell, The Peep Show
The Runaways (comic)
Wikipedia
Mervyn Peake
Caitlan Moran
The Princess Bride
Assyriology and Irving Finkel
fivethiryeight.com
Paul Merton
Joss Whedon (esp Avengers, Cabin, Firefly, Anya from Buffy)
See's candy
The Thick of It
Sleep
Battlestar Galactica
The Onion
House of Cards
Tanya Luhrmann
Feminism
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Bacon
Dr. Seuss
Attack the Block
Board games
Roger Federer's backhand
Alan Tudyk
The X-Men (comics not films)
Orange is the New Black
The voice of Patrick Warburton
Annie Hall, Midnight in Paris
Her and Ex Machina
Ancient civilizations
Catch 22
Archer
Good movie trailers
Miranda Hart
Kamala Khan
Axecop
Beaches at night
King Lear
Film Crit Hulk
Vihart
Mindy Project
Britishness
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Bill Bryson and Terry Pratchett
Ice skating
Crime and Punishment, War and Peace
Puns
Carrie (film)
Pride (film)
Maps
Zombies
Pixar
The Aeneid
The BBC
Philip Larkin
Cosmology
The Three Amigos
Morcombe and Wise
Tea
Super (film)
Post rock
Foucault, Durkheim, Bourdieu, Goffman, Levi-Strauss, Arjun Appadurai
Berkeley (the town near San Fransisco)
Kublah Kahn (the poem)
Borges, Garcí­a Márquez, other Latinamerican writers
Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg
Neuroscience
Lady Gaga music videos
Impressionism
Cricket
Beatboxing and robot dancing
Echo (Terry Moore comic)
The British Museum
Telekinesis
Sue Perkins
Star Trek Voyager
London
The White Stripes
The Cooper Tempe Clause
65daysofstatic
Oceansize
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Johnny Foreigner
Clean Bandit
lots of other bands

  • culture
  • comics
  • movies
  • board games
  • tv
  • traveling
  • cricket
  • anthropology
  • cartography
  • neuroscience
  • science
  • social science
  • beaches

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Working on the Obama campaign.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Romania, Russian Federation, Saint Lucia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States

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