CURRENT MISSION

...travel around Europe this summer (May 29th - July 13th), see a little more of the US, move back to Australia and explore...

ABOUT ME

I like to I listen to and create music, read, write, exercise, photograph, design graphics, work with computers, and watch the occasional movie. I enjoy and appreciate the outdoors, beaches (sadly, the ones around here are awful), and other facets of the natural world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Travelled parts of Australia for a month (first time visiting since I moved to the States)

Interests

guitar, bass, drums, vocals... listening to music... writing and recording music... reading... writing... learning... photography... graphic design... lifting weights and other forms of exertion... [apple] computers, science, mathematics... raw fish... trees... nature... travelling...

• fish
• writing
• design
• graphic design
• photography
• concerts
• exercise
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• drums
• outdoor activities
• fishing
• mathematics
• science
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Tool, The Beatles, A Perfect Circle, Isis, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mastodon, Nick Drake, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Shakti, Pink Floyd, His Hero is Gone, The Mars Volta, Dead Can Dance, Meshuggah, Converge, Neurosis, Cephalic Carnage, Cryptopsy, Pig Destroyer, Pelican, Dusk, Swans, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Depeche Mode, David Bowie, Bjork, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Hrududu Factory, Elliott Smith, Philip Glass, Ravi Shankar... plenty of classical, a bunch of jazz, a plethora of other bands and artists spanning a variety of genres...

American Psycho, Fight Club, The Machinist, Natural Born Killers, American Beauty, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Leon: The Professional, The Rules of Attraction, Memento, Big Fish, Napoleon Dynamite...

America n Psycho and everything else by Bret Easton Ellis; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series and all other Douglas Adams material; Fight Club and everything by Chuck Palahniuk; Kurt Vonnegut novels; The Sea of Fertility tetrology by Yukio Mishima; A Clockwork Orange; The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, and Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky; 1984; Animal Farm; A Brave New World; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and other Hunter S. Thompson writings; Catch 22; White Noise and Underworld by Don DeLillo; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Watership Down; Candide - Voltaire; The Stranger - Camus; plenty more I am forgetting...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

concerts, fires, and views of the natural world

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, United States