CURRENT MISSION

To wade out of my depth

ABOUT ME

I am happiest wandering rootless, and when I am not travelling abroad, even my house moves, as it is a narrow boat on the canal in London. The great loves in my life are music, which I must be listening to at all times, cycling, and meeting interesting, interested people to add to my collection! I have an insatiable thirst for knowledge (whether I retain it or not is another matter!) and pride myself on my open mindedness in life.

PHILOSOPHY

Freedom and Equality!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

London is a huge city with many odd nooks and crannies and I have made it a mission of mine to explore these in the seven years I have lived here, and would be more than happy to meet with anyone interested in the hidden London.

Interests

Cycling about on my own in dusty forgotten areas of London taking photographs that I will probably never develop, flicking through piles and piles of dusty records looking for clues to forgotten greatness, freckles, the smell of Orange trees, being recommended things, buskers who play odd instruments, countries that sell single cigarettes and have monkeys.

• boating
• traveling
• music
• cycling

Music, Movies, and Books

Music

Hip Hop, Funk, Highlife, Cumbia, Gamelan, No wave, Jamaican Ska, Tropicalia, Cajun, Rhythm and Blues, Samba, Dancehall, Afrobeat, Mento, Drum n Bass, Soul, Rock n Roll, Psychedelia, Jazz, Garage and Surf, Charleston, Bossa, Swing, Calypso, Dub, Doo Wop, Old time Blues, Cuban, Roots... and my ears are still open!

Movies
(I used to manage a video shop!)

Stranger than Paradise and Mystery Train, Cyclo, Bottle Rocket, Get Carter, Spirit of the Beehive, Arsenic and old lace, The taking of the Pelham 123, Naked, High Plains Drifter, Black cat, white cat, Dog Day Afternoon, Lift to the scaffold, A short film about love, All early Kurusawas esp. The Hidden Castle, The lower Depths and Rashomon, The taste of Cherries, Repo Man, Bodysong, Gummo and Julian Donkey Boy, Baraka, Microcosmos, Sweet sweetbacks badaaaaas song, Le Samourai, Les quatre cent coups, Paris Texas, Style wars, La Haine, Crumb, Dark Days, Ridicule, Together, The last detail, Fat City, Afterlife, The Conversation, Mean Streets, Deep cover, The white balloon, King of New York, Batteries not included, Safety Last, La Terra Trema, The Bicycle thieves, Head, The savage Planet, Simone of the desert, Sling Blade, Songs from the Second Floor, Wings of Desire, Labyrinth of Passion, Dynamite Chicken, The Time Bandits, Blood Simple, Unforgiven, Smoke and Blue in the face, Being John Malkovitch, The saint of Fort Washington, Y tu Mama tambien, The Return, Memories of murder, Jacobs Ladder, OldBoy, The Abyss, Harold and Maude, Wild at Heart, Violent Cop, Valdez is Coming, White Heat, Dr. Strangelove, Do the right thing, Kes, Cul de sac, Knife in the water and Chinatown, The Jerk, The Gods must be Crazy, Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia, Be Kind, rewind, Moon

Books

"Sombrero Fallout"- Richard Brautigan "Catch 22"- Joseph Heller Most Chester Himes stuff esp. "The Crazy Kill" and "Blind man with a pistol" "One flew over the cuckoos nest"- Ken Kesey "Evidence"- Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel "Hunger"- Knut Hansun "The third Policeman"- Flann O'Brian "Cider with Rosie"- Laurie Lee "The mystery of He"- Michel Gagne "The Dharma Bums"- Jack Kerouac "Spy Vs. Spy" (Mad books)- Antonio Prohias "Little Nemo in Slumberland"- Winsor McCay "Where the wild things are"- Maurice Sendak-- "Acme Novelty Date book"- Chris Ware Mervyn Peake- "Mr. Pye" and "Gormenghast" trilogy "Zen and the Beat way"- Alan Watts "A Brief History of Nearly Everything"- Bill Bryson "Gulliver's travels"- Jonathan Swift "Down and out in Paris and London"- George Orwell

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Cycling the length of Cuba, falling further in love with each kilometer.

Teach, Learn, Share

I could bore you to death with obscure musical knowledge if you like...?

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Serbia, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United States, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain, United Kingdom