Current mission:

Have an awesome time while I'm on Earth.

About me:

I like to think I'm an easy-going, open minded 33 year old human man.

I enjoy wandering around countries, crashing on peoples couches, and learning about great places to see, eat, pondering and meeting interesting people.

I'm a music junkie. Love introducing people to new stuff and having new stuff introduced to me. I also enjoy movies, literature, arts, philosophy and other cultures.

Philosophy

Emancipation from pettiness and fear; fostering perspective; countering irrationality; and making an attempt at becoming truly self-aware before I die.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

How I participate in couchsurfing:

I haven't had the ability to host in the past few years but prior to that I hosted people for about 6 months when I was in Dunedin, New Zealand. About 6-7 years ago I couch surferc across New York, Chicago, Denver, San Fran, D.C., and Europe - London, Dublin, Amsterdam Berlin, Munich. I met some great couch surfers and found it invaluable for meeting up with groups of people, finding stuff to do, etc. It was inspiring. Over the past couple years I've traveled extensively around my own country and also been back to Europe for another visit, back to the US a couple times, and so on :)

Interests

Words with friends, Epic Riffs, Movies, Film Festivals, Music festivals, Reading, Art, Galleries, Ranting, Pondering, Partying, Sports, Graffiti, Philosophy, Games, Light bulbs, Rainbows, Colours, Brains, Existence

• arts
• literature
• singing
• music festivals
• festivals
• film festivals
• partying
• flying
• movies
• reading
• music
• sports
• communications

Music, Movies, and Books

[Note: this is dated by a good 5 years or so but it's only expanded since then] Wow, too many to name really. A few off the top of my head:

Music: Ratatat, LCD Soundsystem, The White Stripes, Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, James Blake, Chimaira, The Weeknd, The Haunted, Scale the Summit, Beardfish, Goes Cube, Meshuggah, Between the Buried and Me, Born of Osiris, Broken Bells, The Streets, The Human Abstract, Josh Ritter, Iron & Wine, Wilco, Leftover Crack, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Holy Ghost!, The World/Inferno Friendship Society, TV on the Radio, Opeth, Alex Skolnick Trio, M83, Calexico, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Fugazi, Miike Snow, Lamb of God, Led Zeppelin, Nick Cave, Soulsavers, Crystal Castles, Miles Davis, Hot Chip, The Sword, Nine Inch Nails, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, The Beatles, Beirut, Pink Floyd, Tool, Fleet Foxes Gojira, The Decemberists, Tom Waits, The Soulseekers, John Frusciante, Antony and the Johnsons, Radiohead, SJD, Psychedelia in general, Sikth, Jakob, God is an Astronaut, Sleepytime Guerilla Museum, Dream Theater, Devin Townsend, Gorillaz, Jay-Electronia, Sage Francis, Jurassic 5, Leonard Cohen, Dredg, Porcupine Tree, Strapping Young Lad, Mr. Bungle, Joy Division, Faith No more, The Black Keys, Wu Lyf, Turisas, The Human Abstract, Born of Osiris, The Contortionist, Star Fucking Hipsters, etc etc. Generally I prefer indie/underground/arty/avant garde/progressive/world music more than mainstream stuff.

TV: The Wire, Sopranos, Deadwood, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Trailer Park Boys, Sealab 2021, Father Ted, Black Books, The Office, Extras, Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, South Park, Party Down, Archer, The Walking Dead, Treme, Six Feet Under, Luther, The Simpsons, Sons of Anarchy, Peep Show, The Killing, The Inbetweeners, BBC Attenborough docos, etc.

Books (authors):
Charles Bukowski, John Steinbeck, Nietzsche, Bret Easton Ellis, Ernest Hemingway, David Gemmell, Peter F. Hamilton, George Orwell, T.S. Eliot, Michel Faucault, Isaiah Berlin, Thomas Schelling, Bertrand Russel, Hunter F. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, S.E. Hinton, Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault, Devin Townsend, Joseph Stiglitz, Steven Walt, Robert Jervis, Patrick Morgan John Stuart Mills, Sage Francis, etc.

Love me some documentaries.

Movies: Simply way too much to name. Ask me. I'm a movies junky - I watch (that's good!).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

'The Gibbon Experience' in Northwest Laos was pretty amazing. It involved 'zipping' along lines (think of the grandest network of flying foxes you've ever seen) hundreds of metres above the forest, sleeping in tree-huts, hearing Gibbon monkeys sing, being chased by a small bear, amongst other occurrences!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Beer. Wine. Words. A hug.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Cambodia, Czech Republic, England, Fiji, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Laos, Netherlands, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

New Zealand

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