I’m a writer and filmmaker from the north of England. I take enormous pleasure in poetry, films, music, mountains, sunlight, bread, and the stars. I would love to become a more corageous, loving, attentive, and energetic person as I grow older. Life vanishes very quickly, and it's so difficult to know who you are or what you are meant for, but I'd like to spend my life lightening this burden for others whenever I can.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet lovely, random people I would never otherwise have met.
To expand my teeny tiny idea of the world, and what goes on in it.
To spread the love. Kapow!
To make a dent in the isolationism and stagnation of modern living. 🕺🏼

Interests

• poetry
• photography
• film making
• film festivals
• swing dancing
• music
• jazz
• history
• shakespeare
• travel writing
• mozart
• sleeping under the stars
• dante
• classical literature
• gypsy jazz
• dostoevsky
• everyone

Music, Movies, and Books

I am such a huge nerd for all 3 of these I don’t know where to begin. I will list random names to try and build up an impression .

Music
Bach, Harold Arlen, Aretha Franklin, Bach, Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Bach, The Beach Boys, The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Bach, Sarah Vaughan, John Coltrane, Mozart, Beethoven, Etta James, Schubert, Bach, All 60s Girl Groups, Sam Cooke, Rachmaninov, Bach, Charles Mingus, Patti Smith, Public Enemy, Bill Evans, Chopin, George Gershwin, Phil Spector, Little Richard, and Bach.
Basically Soul, Jazz, Gospel, Motown, 60s pop, Indie, Punk, Alt Rock, Opera, Chamber Music, Choral Music, and Bach.

Movies
The Night of the Hunter, Bringing up Baby, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Intolerance, Fanny and Alexander, Amarcod, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Manchurian Candidate, Andrei Rublev, Wings of Desire, Tokyo Story, Blue Velvet, Vertigo, Stagecoach, Fantasia, The Red Shoes, Taxi Driver, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Sunset Boulevard, The Women, Singin in the Rain, The Wizard of Oz, Laurence of Arabia, The Good the Bad and The Ugly, Barry Lyndon, Tom Jones, Amadeus, Network, Apocalypse Now, Spirited Away, Ugetsu Monogatari, The 400 Blows, Duck Soup, Rocco and His Brothers, The Ox Bow Incident, High Noon, Back to the Future, Ed Wood, Catch Me if You Can, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Cinema Paradiso, The Great Beauty...
I will stop now or it will keep going...

Books
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Mann, Bill Shakespeare, Horne de Balzac, English Romantics, Virginia Woolf, Dante, Mark Twain, George Orwell, James Joyce, Graham Greene, Saul Bellow, Somerset Maugham, Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Laurence Sterne, Stendhal, Nietzsche, The Bible, John Kennedy Toole, Jorge Luis Borges...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Catch a duck in mid-flight as it was thieving my credit card.

Teach, Learn, Share

I worked as an English, Maths, and Science tutor in the UK. I am an inexhaustible goldmine of useless knowledge.

As far as bad piano players go, I am among the best.

Any proofreading or copywriting you need doing, I’m good at that.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I am a pretty great cook, and am happy to cook.
I am also a good teacher/tutor, not just with English, but with all sorts: History, Music, Maths, Cooking.
If you need poetry recitation, I'm your man.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

England