CURRENT MISSION

Stay cool man, stay cool forever.

ABOUT ME

I'm pretty chilled. I'm curious and love to travel, to meet people and have new experiences. I work as a public servant and also write for a newspaper in Sydney. I studied law but my real passions are music and writing.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Am new to couch surfing but hope to surf and host in the future, get involved in the meetups, show people around my city, etc.

Interests

Music (especially live music), travelling, old movies, writing, art galleries, zines, cricket, basketball, vintage shopping,

• arts
• writing
• music festivals
• festivals
• dining
• drinking
• boating
• shopping
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• live music
• surfing
• basketball
• cricket
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

So, so many favourites. Too many to list.

Music: The Gaslight Anthem, The Flaming Lips, Belle and Sebastian, Stars, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Mates of State, James Blake, Bruce Springsteen, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Magnetic Fields, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sufjan Stevens, Darren Hanlon...

Books: Truman Capote, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jonathon Coe, Daniel Clowes, Nick Hornby, Carson McCullers, Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road', David Nicholls' 'One Day', David Whitehouse's 'Bed', Dave Eggers, Haruki Murakami. I also read a lot of YA and like a good music bio.

Movies: The Apartment, Amelie, American Beauty, Say Anything, Lars and The Real Girl, Beautiful Girls, Annie Hall, The Third Man

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Off the top of my head, some highlights have been:
- Edward Hopper show at the Tate, London
- Narrowly avoiding death on a sinking boat in Halong Bay, Vietnam
- Bastille Day fireworks at Paris
- Amazing food at Trastevere, Rome
- Music festivals and drinking in the sun at Byron Bay
- Berlin's Reichstag at night
- County cricket at Lord's

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia

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