CURRENT MISSION

To make the most of Melbourne.

ABOUT ME

Hello, I'm Sean.

I'm 24, from Liverpool, UK, and I recently quit my job to live in Australia for a year (maybe two).

I've recently arrived in Melbourne and I'll be living and working here for about six months.

I'm not sure how to describe myself because I'm quite modest and hate describing any positive attributes or qualities I may have. I'm dreadful at writing CVs and covering letters for exactly this reason. I'll often write things like, "I feel I am creative, hard working and excited about working for your company... but to be honest, you might be able to find someone more experienced than I am."

I'm invariably unemployed.

I generally use self-deprecation to lower people's expectations of me. I tend to get on with most people though and when I'm leaving for Oz, I'm going to measure my popularity by seeing how many friends and relatives cry as I walk through the departures gate at the airport.

PHILOSOPHY

Carpe Diem.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I haven't had any actual experience of CouchSurfing on other people's couches, but my brother spent last summer CouchSurfing around Europe and he hasn't shut up about it since.

We've since had a few CouchSurfers staying in our house and they've all been wonderful.

Interests

• writing
• traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:

Pulp Fiction
American Psycho
À Bout de Souffle
Alphaville
A Clockwork Orange
Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive
Un Chien Andalou
The Big Lebowski
The Breakfast Club
Irreversible
Anchorman
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Before Sunset
Before Sunrise
Fargo
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Reservoir Dogs
Goodfellas
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Fitzcarraldo
Stroszeck
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
American Beauty
Tell No One
The Vanishing (Spoorloos)
Funny Games
Mystery Train
Amelie
Fight Club
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Being John Malkovich
The Science of Sleep
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Cool Hand Luke
My Neighbour Totoro
Spirited Away
Sideways
The Matrix
Donny Darko
City of God
Trainspotting
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Music:

Black Flag, Husker Du, Leonard Cohen, Joy Division, Kraftwerk, The Libertines, Minutemen, Oasis, Orange Juice, Pixies, Radiohead, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, The Stone Roses,
The Velvet Underground, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Blah, Blah, Blah.

Books:

Anything that I can talk really loudly about in social situations to improve my intellectual standing within the group.

Authors whose work I enjoy

Orwell
Easton Ellis
Dickens
Burroughs
Chekov
Fitzgerald
Wilde
Bukowski
Kerouac
Chandler
Sedaris
Coupland
Kafka
Ginsberg
Carver
Kesey
Thompson
Huxley, A
Amis, M.
Nabokov
Hemingway
Kundera

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In 2006 I spent three months travelling around America and Canada in an RV.

I also once watched an entire series of LOST in one day.

Teach, Learn, Share

"the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is — to live dangerously."

Friedrich Nietzsche

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