CURRENT MISSION

I love writing poetry and painting and do these every day. But I would say that my biggest mission is to build a creative community in Melbourne, Australia. Right now I'm traveling and exploring communities around the world in order to get ideas :)

ABOUT ME

When I was eighteen I made this profile and wrote: "trying to put a whole lot of fun experiences between the 'childhood' and 'rest of my life' bits of my life :)"
Even though I'm 31 now, that still feels pretty accurate :)

When I was eighteen, I wrote: "okay, i like writing and drawing in journals and projects, like making films or big paintings, for fun, and then i also like singing bad falsetto and big kitchen percussion sessions and going crazy, but mainly i would like to think i was a pretty chilled out guy with an inclination towards art and stuff"
Again, just spot on. Good work, eighteen year old Harley!

PHILOSOPHY

- "Don't dream it, be it."
- I believe we make our own meaning, and you can make whatever you want of importance to you in your life.
- Love meeting people.
- I really enjoy a lot of Taoist thinking.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm living in a beautiful sharehouse in Footscray, Melbourne, which we affectionately call 'The Droop.' We've been having people on our couch for about a year now, both from this website and friends of friends, etc, and have really enjoyed the energy people have bought into our house.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had a great trip around Europe when I was eighteen - I remember my first couchsurfing experience was staying with Christian in Berlin, and i wished I'd discovered this earlier! The best thing is all of the things you end up doing that would never happen without it, in the first two hours after my friend and i met him, i had driven through Berlin and suddenly knew all these things about the city and where to go check out, it was great XD

Interests

I am writing a novel about travel and pop music and will probably inevitably talk about that a bit but also love talking about films, art and music in general and the world and am really interested in peoples stories too!

• arts
• writing
• books
• singing
• film making
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• juggling
• drawing
• music
• guitar
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

movies i like: Requiem for a dream, the chumscrubber, shoot em up, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, pi, a scanner darkly, the matrix, american beauty, good will hunting, lost in translation, sin city, terminator 2.

music i like: REM, Modest mouse, animal collective, ben folds, interpol, arcade fire, MIA, sufjan, the whitlams, built to spill, the new pornographers, wolf parade, the avalanches, ugly casanova.

and books i like lolita, virginia woolf, 100 years of solitude, vikram seth, walt whitman, 1984.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i wrote some short plays and my friends and i performed them as a proper night with lights and costumes and stuff and that was pretty amazing, for me at least XD

Teach, Learn, Share

i can juggle, that could be fun to learn... also i would like to think i know a bit about art and film making sorts of stuff. i am trying ot learn guitar chords, that is heaps of fun, i have jsut started but i rteally like learning that. i like cooking and especiallyy cakes! and i like learning languages too. I want to learn to sing but that wont happen haha but maybe someone could try to teach me that?

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Sweden