fluffy haired misfit, confounded by the world and excited by it in equal measure.

my current preoccupations include contact juggling, playing the mandolin, and hurling myself into the sea. I have benefitted many times from the generosity of strangers and am keen to reciprocate. stories interest me - the stories of individuals, peoples, places and continents - and couchsurfing is the ideal way to discover them. come say hi!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

nurturing global connections, collective solidarity

Interests

anarchism, agroecology, anthropology, anti-capitalism, baba ganoush, backgammon, brutalism, chaos theory, chess, clowning, circus, cooking, cooperating, cultivating, cycling, dada, decolonisation, diabolo, diasporas, drawing, environmentalism, ethnography, feminism, festivals, food, forests, gardens, guitars, (hitch)hiking, indigenous cultures, jamming, juggling, judaism, klezmer, land rights, marxism, migration, open source, painting, partying, people watching, polemics, political ecology, radical municipalism, regenerative agriculture, river swimming, samba, socialism, social movements, solar, spaces of resistance, squatting, stargazing, storytelling, surrealism, sustainable living, street theatre, table tennis, taoism, urban exploring, utopias, walking, wildness.

• environment
• music
• anthropology
• circus
• social justice

Music, Movies, and Books

music: everything from dub to jazz, afrobeat to grunge, electronica and hip-hop. four tet, toots and the maytals, fela kuti-tony allen, ali farka toure, bonobo, quantic, baden powell, portico quartet, herbie hancock to get you started.

books: fiction - the dispossessed (ursula le guin), one hundred years of solitude (gabriel garcia marquez), steppenwolf (herman hesse), grapes of wrath (john steinbeck), midnight's children (salman rushdie), nausea (jean-paul sartre), god of small things (arundhati roy), a fine balance (rohington misty), the famished road (ben okri), woman at point zero (nawal el sadaawi), the alchemist (paolo coehlo). non fiction - desert solitaire (edward abbey), down and out in paris and london (orwell), i rigoberta menchu (menchu/burgos-debray), ways of seeing (berger), plus ethnographies of anna tsing, tania murray-li, james scott, david graeber, political writings of naomi klein, rebecca solnit, murray bookchin, maria mies, ivan illich, hannah arendt, eduardo galeano, guy debord, marx, kropotkin..

films: la haine, city of god, soy cuba, the battle of algiers, no country for old men, pan's labyrinth, pride, the parole officer, the lives of others, the wicker man, waltz with bashir

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

camped alone by calainis stone circle and amongst the lochs and the mountains.

Teach, Learn, Share

my philosophy goes something like this: resist injustice, imagine alternatives, make life a carnival. to paraphrase raymond williams, live out a radicalism that can make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

What I Can Share with Hosts

meals, stories, circus shows, samba drumming, folks songs, political rants, riddles & jokes, an insight into cooperative living.

bonus: i'll show you my favourite clips from the limmy show on youtube.

teach me arabic, greek, spanish. please!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bolivia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lithuania, Morocco, Netherlands, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bolivia, England, Greece, Scotland

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