ABOUT ME

I currently work for La Choza Chula (www.lachozachula.org) a small NGO on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala. Before that I did an M.A in Journalism at Orebro University and studied History in Southampton. I have worked a few winters in the alps and generally love my skiing and surfing.

PHILOSOPHY

"Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel."
Hunter S. Thompson

Interests

Travelling/Music/Film/Literature/Sport.

• literature
• environment
• traveling
• music
• skiing
• sports
• history
• journalism
• volunteering
• beaches
• football
• surf

Music, Movies, and Books

http://www.last.fm/user/Ben_crisp

Music: National, Beirut, Beach House, Nick Drake, Tallest Man on Earth, Laura Marling, Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell, Youth Lagoon, Johnny Flynn, Tame Impala, Dylan, Stephen Fretwell, The Roots, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, Perfume Genius, Beatles, Phosphorescent, Woods, Sufjan Stevens, Joanna Newsom ...

Film: Into the Wild, Motorcycle Diaries, Royal Tennenbaums, Lion King, City of God, It's a Wonderful Life, Lives of Others, Che, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, LOTR, Trotsky, Silver Linings ...

Books: Ham on Rye, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Just Kids, Animal Farm, The Muscle Feast, Down and Out in Paris and London, Hollywood, Catcher in the Rye, LOTR, Damned United, On the Road, Everything is Illuminated, Great Gatsby..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitch-hiked from Cambridge to Morocco/kayaked 10km out to sea in Thailand with 4 friends to some remote Islands and spent the day and night there sleeping under the stars with the island to ourselves (The Beach inspired)/spent 6 weeks with one of my closest friends living with a Thai family in the east of Thailand (near Khukan) teaching English in a school, but moreover just living in that environment/being taken in for 4 days by Adolfo, the Priest of Vallegrande, when stranded in the town with no money and nowhere to stay whilst on a trip to see the death place of Guevara.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Cambodia, Croatia, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Italy, Laos, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Guatemala, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom