CURRENT MISSION

Impossible

ABOUT ME

I've been walking the Earth like Caine in Kung Fu for the last thirty one years and I now find myself in Germany after a number of years working and travelling across the world, including Ireland, England, the US, Canada, Netherlands, Thailand and a lot of South East Asia. I'm originally from Ireland and previous jobs include jounalist, news reader, English teacher, landscape gardener and street performer. I've now kind of settled on a 'real' job as a marketing and sales manager. So, let's see how that goes.

PHILOSOPHY

Man walks into a bar.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hosted a number of people in Bangkok when I lived there and it was a hoot and a holler.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Good so far.

Interests

I like going to bed, getting up again, walking around a bit and looking at various things and then maybe reading some stuff and looking at other things or walking over to somewhere else and then eventually going to bed again and getting up again and the rest kind of takes care of itself after that.

• make up
• walking
• news
• reading
• traveling
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Le fabuleux destin de Amelie Poulain; One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest; Black Swan; The Silence of the Lambs (you still hear them screaming, don't you, Clarice?); Adaptation; Amadeus; Being There; There will be Blood; Back to the Future parts I and III; Groundhog Day (Ned? Ned Ryerson?); The Big Lebowski; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ... that's just the tip of the iceberg (no, that's not a reference to Titanic)
Radiohead; Wu Lyf, Devotchka; Primal Scream; Pulp; Daniel Johnston; Special Guests (my band); Death in Vegas; Spiritualised; Tchaikovsky; Bon Iver; Aphex Twin; Arctic Monkeys; Fleet Foxes; James Blake ... have I mentioned enough for you to think I'm cool yet?
Books : The Catcher in the Rye; The Secret History; Anything by Paul Auster; The Unbearable Lightness of Being; At Home; A Very Short History of the World; Life of Pi; The Third Policeman; ... basically any book where it annoys you to turn the page because you're getting closer to the end.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Realising that thing about the lift.

Teach, Learn, Share

When you get into a lift, there are usually two buttons to press.
1) The button indicating the number of your desired floor
and
2) The 'close the door now' button.
Most people, when they're in lifts, press the 'number' button first and then the 'close door' button. But actually, they should press the 'close door' button first and as the door is closing they can then make up their minds about what floor they're going to.
It's temporally more efficient to hit the 'close door' button first and the 'number' button second is basically what I'm saying.

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