CURRENT MISSION

Get a horse, ride around the coast of Ireland

ABOUT ME

Hello! I'm James and i'm 28. I'm a musician and amateur film-maker and I love meeting new people. I will talk to absolutely anyone, and I try to only see the good in people.
I'm not very good at these personal descriptions, but I love other types of writing, especially songwriting. Still trying to work out what to do with my life. Have a feeling its gonna involve music though, and hopefully some kind of community/social work.

PHILOSOPHY

Not sure I could confidently assert this one in this teeny little block of text, but suffice to say being kind to people is one of the most important things in life, and that I wholeheartedly beleive in the power of Love.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Just joined on the advice of my friend who hitch-hiked through europe, I haven't had the chance to host anyone yet because I don't have my own place at the moment.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had a brilliant time staying in Berlin surfing Andres´s couch. What a nice guy. All the rest have been great also.

Interests

Music, Songwriting, Songlearning, Songsinging, Busking, Storeis, Film-making, The City, Anthropology, , Travelling, people of all descriptions fascinate me...

• writing
• glastonbury
• cooking
• working out
• partying
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• surfing
• anthropology
• social work

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC(abridged):

FOLK: John Martyn, Fairport Convention, Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Bert Jansch, Richard Thompson, Lyle Lovett, Simon and Garfunkel, Seasick Steve.
HIPHOP: Jurrasic 5, The Pharcyde, Ozomatli, Ugly Duckling, A Tribe Called Quest, Abdominal/Format, Roots Manuva, De La Soul, Hocus Pocus.
ROCK/SOUL/MOTOWN: Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison, Martha and the Vandellas, Otis Redding, The Eurythmics, Percy Sledge, Marvin Gaye, RHCP,The Police, Led Zeppelin, Gil-Scott Heron, the immortal Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Muddy Waters, Richie Havens.
FUNK: The Meters, James Brown, Sly & The Family Stone, George Clinton, Erykah Badu, Donny Hathaway, Jamiroquai, Jill Scott, Herbie Hancock, Fela Kuti, Afrik Bawantu, Michael Jackson & The Jackson 5, Breakestra, Krafty Kuts.
REGGAE: Bob Marley, Horace Andy, Toots and the Maytals, Alpha Blondy, Ernest Ranglin, Lee Scratch Perry and the Upsetters, Kana, Fat Freddy's Drop.
JAZZ: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Keith Jarret, Gerry Mulligan, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Anita O'Day, Thelonius Monk
... and many many more

AUTHORS: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Joseph Heller, Jack Kerouac, Ralph Emmersson, Frederick Douglass, Richard Sennett, Michel de Certeau, Henri Lefebvre, William Bulter Yeats, Mark Twain, William Blake, Chinua Achebe, J.D. Sallinger

MOVIES: Back To The Future (cringe), Independence Day (double cringe), The Last Waltz and most films by Scorcese, Soy Cuba, Films by Shane Meadows, Paris Is Burning, Spike Lee Films.... the list goes on...

Here is a link to my old band, its a funk group from brighton: www.myspace.com/babaslips

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Busked and hitchiked from Amsterdam to Istanbul...
My band played at Glastonbury once...
... I jumped of a 60ft rock into the sea a few summers ago... Went to a mad Santeria party for the Cumpleanos de San Miguel in Cuba where everyone was driking hallucenogenic rum and in some kind of trance...

Teach, Learn, Share

I can give guitar lessons and cook a pretty mean risotto if it comes to it!

Countries I’ve Visited

Cuba, Italy, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, United Kingdom

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