CURRENT MISSION

To draw many pictures

ABOUT ME

I spend a lot of my time doing biro drawings of imaginary, distorted figures. I've uploaded a few onto this very page. They don't have any meaning that I'm aware of, though I feel really gratified when people make up their own interpretations, even if (as my mum often does) they find comfort where I find horror and horror where I find comfort.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I started using CouchSurfing when on a walk from Land's End to John O' Groats and ended up meeting a great many open and lovely people who performed countless feats of gobsmacking generosity.

Interests

• make up
• drawing

Music, Movies, and Books

Some films I really like are: The Night of the Hunter; David Lean's version of Great Expectations; Back to the Future; The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari; Harold and Maude; Some Like It Hot; Eyes Without a Face; The Graduate; Jules and Jim; The Wrong Trousers; Meshes of the Afternoon; Aguirre, Wrath of God; Once Upon a Time in the West; Orpheus; Genevieve; Knocked Up; The White Ribbon; Vertigo; The Old Dark House; Sullivan's Travels; The Kid Brother; Woman in the Dunes; and the animations of Jan Svankmajer and Yuri Norstein.

I really like the music of: Iva Bittova; John Zorn; The Beatles; The Incredible String Band; David Bowie; Trembling Bells; Lars Hollmer; Charles Mingus; Big Bill Broonzy; Bob Dylan; Joanna Newsom; Joseph Spence; Lloyd Cole; Ghedalia Tazartes; Muzsikas; Naftule Brandwein; Paul Siebel; Fred Neil; Laurie Anderson; Fever Ray; Opeth; Ahava Raba; Venetian Snares; Leonard Cohen; Wu Fei; Comus; Slapp Happy; Nic Jones; This Heat; Amon Duul II; Pentangle; Duck Baker; The Velvet Underground; X; Nick Cave; Fela Kuti; Karen Dalton; Luiz Bonfa; Willie Colon; Davy Graham; Laura Nyro; Sleepytime Gorilla Museum; Nick Drake; Tom Lehrer; Raymond Scott; Hildegard von Bingen; Thomas Tallis; Arvo Part; Olivier Messiaen; Harry Partch; and Sofia Gubaidulina.

Some books I really like are: The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz; Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino; The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien; All About H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani; Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal; Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees; Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman; I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen; Call it Sleep by Henry Roth; Falconer by John Cheever; Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Telefon by Korney Chukovsky; The Gate by Natsume Soseki; A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun; George Herriman's Krazy Kat comics; Daniil Kharms' stories; and Swann's Way by Marcel Proust. And also the poems of Edward Thomas, Dylan Thomas, Cesar Vallejo and Edward Lear.

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