CURRENT MISSION

Researching for a novel I'm writing

ABOUT ME

I am a scientist ands writer from London. I love meeting people, hanging out and general debauchery.

HAve in the past used couch surfer to contact people who might be interested in helping me research certain places and characters, and for meeting people when I'm away researaching and attending conferences.

Day-to-day I work as a research scientist and I write in my spare time.

My other interests are literature (English, 20th Century American, and 19th Century Russian) and music.

Philosophy, political theory, everthing else.

Etremely liberal and open minded.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've met some lovely people through CS and a few people have been very helpful in letting me interview them.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Met a few people through CS when I was hanging out in Poland.

Also people from CS have helped with research for my book.

Interests

Writing, Drinking, Literature, Music, History - not necessarily(but probably) in that order.

• writing
• books
• literature
• drinking
• socializing
• music
• history
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Fave authors - esp. Thomas Pynchon, Neil Stephenson, Jonathan Franzen, Phillip K. Dick, John Fowles, Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Mikhail Sholokov, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, George Orwell, Paul Bowles.

Music - esp. Depeche Mode, Nick Cave, Mastodon, Tool, Rachmanninov, Radiohead, The Smiths, Chopin, Swans, Johnny Cash, Pink Floyd, Slint, Mozart, Dvorak, Pj Harvey, Deftones, Mogwai, Arab strap, Fleetwood Mac - Most good music.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Many cool things, but probably nothing much that would mean anything much to anyone else.

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