ABOUT ME

"Curiousity killed the cat" - that proverb is sooo wrong on sooo many levels!! e.g. Cat killing = bad; Curiousity = Very very good indeed...
I like people. Animals are nice too. Seriousness is over-rated.
I like to enjoy life and LEARN anything at all...and if something is new, it is by definition interesting, jah?
I am completely useless at planning things - by choice i suppose, you know, good to keep your options open an' all that jazz...
I've been travelling solo around Europe for a year and a half - met some fantabulous people, and wanting to meet more...
Good conversation over some beers is always a good start...

PHILOSOPHY

"Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man´s physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed." - Charles Baudelaire

"Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?" - Marilyn Monroe

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am travelling around EuroLand at the moment - so sorry, no couch in New Zealand...

Interests

People and books and leaves and cats and art and birds and Beck´s and strawberries and walking and talking and grass and coffee and stars and otters and chess and magnolias and skirts and tennis and green and the number 22 and stuff.

• animals
• cats
• birds
• arts
• books
• beer
• coffee
• walking
• chess
• traveling
• jazz
• tennis

Music, Movies, and Books

Anything by: Henry Miller, Milan Kundera, Jean Coucteau, Vladimir Nabokov, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Kurt Vonnegut and, errrr i can´t remember...currently on a 3-year play-reading binge.

Caribou, Elliot Smith, The Moldy Peaches, Beck, The 3Ds, Bon Iver, The Kinks, The Books, The Beatles, Thom Yorke, The Clean, old-school jazz and 80s music that allows me to make an idiot of myself as i dance to it...

Movies...stuff by Michel Gondry, Yuri Norstein, Wes Anderson, Charlie Kauffman... Partial to anything absurdist, or with a dark, dry humour, psychological ...1960s-70s

Teach, Learn, Share

Freedom quarter (Jacques Prévert)

I took off my cap and put it in the cage
And I left with a bird on my head
Aren't you going to salute any more?
Demanded the commander
No
No more salutes
Answered the bird
Oh, okay
Excuse me, I thought your were going to salute
Said the commander
It's okay, everybody can make mistakes
Said the bird

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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