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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Writing music, Podcasting, Learning
ABOUT ME
I'm a singer, composer, podcaster. I enjoy cooking, and good coffee. I have an insatiable appetite for knowledge.
I search for the hidden magic in the world.
PHILOSOPHY
Be good to people.
I produce a podcast on cutting edge cultural, scientific and societal phenomena.
I also make live electronica with my band Beacon Bloom
If either sound intriguing feel free to czech them out ;)
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
Give and the world gives back. Repeat.
Interests
Discovery, travel, reading, music, film, great apes, nature, cooking, immersive event curation, nutrition, novelty, people, altered states, geopolitics/power structures, philosophy...
Music, Movies, and Books
Films: Catch me if you can, Into the Wild, District 9, Samsara
Series: Mr Robot, Game of Thrones, Shameless, Westworld, Rick and Morty, Maniac,
Music: Todd Terje, J.Views, Jeff Buckley, Thrice, John Mayer, Incubus, Mumford and Sons, The Civil Wars, Karnivool, Stevie Wonder, Pearl Jam, Beatles, Michael Jackson, Boy and Bear, Radiohead, Local Natives, Pink Floyd, UMO, Bonobo, The 1975, Max Cooper, Moderat, Noah Gunderson, London Grammar, Florence + and the Machine
Books: SHANTARAM, LOTR, Ishmael, The Light of Other Days, Dublin, Sex at Dawn, Waking Up, Curious Incident, Superintelligence, Three Body Problem, Judas Unchained, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Waste Tide, 1Q74, Shogun, Sapiens, Name of the Wind
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Performing/recording original music in a huge empty earthquake-damaged water reservoir
Or swimming in Bioluminescent algae in Mallorca...stars below the water and above.
Teach, Learn, Share
Guitar, vocals, songwriting, music production/recording and music-y things in general.
Podcasting
NZ culture
Asian cooking
What I Can Share with Hosts
Music :) stories. Good conversation.
Countries I’ve Visited
Australia, Austria, Cook Islands, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Wales
Countries I’ve Lived In
Germany, New Zealand