CURRENT MISSION

To boldly go where no John has gone before. Which isn't too difficult.

ABOUT ME

I work as a professional programmer/analyst as well as various freelance oddjobs in the music industry. Currently starting up my own business hoping that I can turn my career into a work-at-home career. Very outgoing fellow (obviously if I'm on this site.)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far I've met some really nice people through my friend who is already a member. Then decided I wanted in on it!

Interests

• music
• business
• freelancing
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: is an enormous part of my life. My favorite bands in alphabetical order are:
Air, Alkaline Trio, Aphex Twin, Ash, Asobi Seksu, At the Drive-In, Atom & His Package, Badly Drawn Boy, The BEASTIE Boys, Beatles, Belle & Sebastian, Bjork, David Bowie, Boy Sets Fire, Brandtson, The Catherine Wheel, Elvis Costello, The Cure, Cursive, Daft Punk, Death Cab for Cutie, Depeche Mode, The Divine Comedy, Doves, Nick Drake, Elliott, Jeremy Enigk, Explosions in the Sky, Failure, The Faint, The Fire Theft, The Flaming Lips, Fugazi, Peter Gabriel, Girls vs Boys, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Jose Gonzales, Grandaddy, Neil Halstead, Helmet, Hum, Interpol, Jebediah, Jejune, Jets to Brazil, Jimmy Eat World, Joy Division, The Killers, Led Zepplin, Loney Dear, Mark Kozelek, M83, The Magnetic Fields, Stephen Malkmus, The Mars Volta, Mercury Rev, Mogwai, Mojave 3, Murder by Death, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, Outkast, Pavement, The Pixies, The Postal Service, The Promise Ring, Pulp, Radiohead, Red House Painters, Samiam, Sensefield, Shudder to Think, Sigur Ros, Simon & Garfunkel, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Slowdive, Elliott Smith, Sonic Youth, The Stanley Brothers, Stellastarr*, Sun Kil Moon, Sunny Day Real Estate, Texas is the Reason, Thrice, Thursday, The Tiny, Tool, The Who, Windy & Carl, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

MOVIES:
STAR WARS (yes, even the prequels, dammit, I love them like ugly adopted children), Indiana Jones trilogy, Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Dead series (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead), most comic book to film flicks (except Daredevil, Catwoman, and the obvious other ones), Kevin Smith flicks, Bruce Lee flicks, Dancer in the Dark, Usual Suspects, The Crow (just the first one), Highlander (just the first one), Japanese Horror, Japanese Cinema (particularly Kurosawa: 7 Samurai, Ikiru, The Hidden Fortress, Ran, Dreams), Anime (Rouroni Kenshin, Mononoke, Akira, Dragon Ball Z, FLCL)

BOOKS:
Dune, Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Stephen Hawking, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis. Been a BIG comic book collector since the 3rd grade, I own over 4000, starting with X-Men (the Claremont years/The Grant Morrison run). Moved on to Vertigo (Sandman, Preacher, Transmet, Hellblazer).

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Canada, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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