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Overview

  • 8 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Finnish; learning Swedish
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Freelance Filmmaker / Photographer / Web Designer
  • MA
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Try, you might like it.

ABOUT ME

Me? I got thrown into this world from Finland where I grew up and spent over 20 years, since then I've harassed the good people of Denmark and now continue these pranks in the UK. What next? Who knows? Not me.

I look, try, make mistakes and maybe eventually I too will learn. I like stories, to tell and to be told. The weirder it get's, more interesting it usually gets...

PHILOSOPHY

There are two kinds of people: the ones who bring joy where ever they go, the others where ever they leave. Which one you are?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Well, hopefully I will stay somewhere, meet wonderful people and host someone sometime. I just started.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am newbie, have done very little so far.

Interests

The odd and awkward moments of life, random acts of kindness, life in general. Stories, art, rubbish, writing, reading, food, sarcasm, people, me, you, sports, music, films, filmmaking etc.

  • arts
  • writing
  • film making
  • dining
  • movies
  • reading
  • music
  • sports

Music, Movies, and Books

Dr. Strangelove, good docs, Charlie Kaufman's stuff and have witnessed a lot of weird stuff in the Star and Shadow Cinema while been in Newcastle. (The place to go!)

Lately have read and enjoyed works from eg. Kerouac, Bukowksi, Hunter S. Thompson, JM Coetzee, Miller, Gaiman, Moore, Anthony Burgess, Les Claypool and more.

I like going to gigs. Listen to pretty much anything that pleases my ear, don't really know genre boundaries.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I just recently learned from complete stranger that he moved from UK to Guatemala because of Zulu armies marched past him in a dream he had...

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