CURRENT MISSION

To artify, whackify and beautify this world.

ABOUT ME

I am a highly creative and imaginative person with a passion for art, fashion and life.

Although at times I live the life of a tortured, hermit artiste I am very sociable and love people. I love people from different cultures who challenge my perception of the world around me. I get on very well with guys/men/gentlemen as I can be quite a clown... no conversation topic is off bounds with me! I am random and spontanious and am looking for people to bring some excitement and inspiration into my life.

I am a bit of a contradiction and I change on a daily basis. I can be shallow and deep, loud and quiet, mature and immature, dangerous and safe, chaotic and calm. In the words of Marcel Duchamp; 'I contradict myself to avoid conforming to my own taste'.

I love to write, blog and create. I have dedicated my life to making the Wonderland I have created inside my head a reality. I want to inspire and show others the beauty of living and dreaming and meet people who can inspire me.

PHILOSOPHY

I am a spiritual person and I believe in Karma above anything else. I live my life according to this belief and try to treat others as I would want to be treated. I recently read 'Tao Te Ching' and firmly believe a lot of its philosophy.

I love reading and books often inspire me and the way I think and lead my life.

'I am not what I am'. Iago in Othello.

'It is only mediocre people who have genius during their lifetime.'

'The only way to have followers is to run faster than the others.'

'Logic is a complication. Logic is always false.' Andre Breton.

'The unknown is an exception, the known a deception.'

'I don't even know what I was running for - I guess I just felt like it.' ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1

'A throne is just a bench covered in velvet'.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted people at my home in Bournemouth and loved every minute. I have met people who have truly had a profound effect on my life and I am looking forward to trying Couchsurfing from the other side when I go to Rome and Barcelona next month.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

It has changed my life and will hopefully continue to do so.

Interests

Art, film (especially horror and world cinema), sewing, fashion and anti-fashion, literature, writing, buying and tearing apart old clothes, blogging, daydreaming, travelling, visiting art galleries, the smell of old bookshops, dancing, laughing, destroying to create and creating to destroy, theatre (especially opera), live music, trying to cook and falling down rabbit holes.

• arts
• writing
• books
• literature
• fashion
• beauty
• dancing
• cooking
• running
• clothing
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• blogging
• music
• live music
• opera
• logic

Music, Movies, and Books

Favourite films include;

Blowup, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Hero, Pan's Labyrinth, Big Fish, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Lost in Translation, The Rules of Attraction, Donnie Darko, Moulin Rouge!, This Is England, Dead Man's Shoes, Atonement, The Breakfast Club, Watership Down, The Lion King, THE HURT LOCKER, The Red Shoes, COCO BEFORE CHANEL, The September Issue, Oldboy, Lolita, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Clockwork Orange, Battle Royale, Wolf Creek, A Tale of Two Sisters, Audition, Das Experiment, Control, Angel-A, Suspiria, Princess Mononoke, The Holy Mountain, Romeo + Juliet, Cruel Intentions, 10 Things I Hate About You, Sex and the City, Priscilla Presley, Queen of the Desert, City of God, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Deep Red, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Grudge, Irréversible, Bridge to Terabithia, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Lars and the Real Girl, The Crow, This Is Spinal Tap, Walk the Line, The Princess Bride, The Karate Kid, Priceless, Hotel Rwanda, The Last King of Scotland, The Orphanage, Trainspotting, Pulp Fiction, American Psycho, The Notebook, Léon, Half Nelson, True Romance, Toy Story, Pretty in Pink, Sleepers, Memento, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Eagle vs Shark, Superbad, A Streetcar Named Desire, West Side Story, The Goonies, The Dark Crystal, Return to Oz, Requiem for a Dream, Antichrist, The Fall, The Cell, Dracula, The Dreamers, Paris, je t'aime, Love Me If You Dare, Heathers, St. Elmo's Fire, Persepolis, Into the Wild, Touching the Void, Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, Let The Right One In, Sex and the City 2 Official UK Page, Tarsem Singh's The Fall, Enter The Void, Queen Of The Damned, Napoleon Dynamite, Together, Frida, Bright Star, Greenberg, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Wave, American Beauty, The Fifth Element, Buffalo 66, Made in Dagenham, The King's Speech, Breathless, Last Tango in Paris, Regular Lovers,A Hole in My Heart, A Single Man.

Favourite books;

Just Kids, Tao Te Ching, Helter Skelter, A Million Little Pieces, My Friend Leonard, American Psycho, Glamorama, The Rules of Attraction, Less Than Zero, Haunted, The Catcher in the Rye, Othello, Widow Basquiat, Revolutionary Road, 1984, Brave New World, On The Road, Lolita, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Brave New World.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once fell into the sky and turned the world upside down...

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom