CURRENT MISSION

making cheese

ABOUT ME

Studying jazz trumpet. Like to get out into the mountains, love gardening and cooking simple meals. The craziness of the city inspires me. Try to live with energy, exuberance, activity, laughter.

PHILOSOPHY

Work out the necessities of life and satisfy them as simply and directly as possible. Work your way up Maslow's hierarchy. Find that mad creative energy that's inside you, turn it loose. Become a fully functioning person.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting & surfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted a few different people at our old place in Brunswick, Melbourne, and I've stayed with others in Australia and France. I had an amazing experience in Nepal where our hosts gave us food and a place to stay for over a week in two villages deep in the mountains. It's made me realise the immense importance of sharing hospitality and relying on the kindness of strangers. It's a positive, uplifting experience!

Interests

Learning the trumpet, playing in bands, spending quality time with housemates and friends. I try to devote time to the things that really matter. Music is a full-time, all-consuming occupation, and learning to play the trumpet with good technique has been one of the biggest most insanely difficult hurdles I've ever had to overcome. I'm working at it, slowly. I love the social atmosphere of making music, I love the possibility of bringing people together.

• dining
• cooking
• breakfast
• wine
• cheese
• working out
• gardening
• music
• jazz
• trumpet
• surfing
• boxing
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, The Dilinger Escape Plan, Buena Vista Social Club, Stravinsky, Sibelius. Bach. Django Reinhardt. Aussie pub songs. Convict songs. Rolf Harris.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sleeping with a wooden box for a pillow by the campfire with a bunch of stoned Nepali dudes at the top of a ridiculously high mountain, up at 4am for huge breakfast and rice wine in plastic coke bottles, off to the summit to see the sunrise and play a few games of cards with the Tibetan border in the distance.

Seeing Stravinsky's Rite of Spring performed at the Melbourne town hall.

Teach, Learn, Share

how to tie your shoelaces:
http://www.two-shay.com/articles/quick-skills-shoelaces

Countries I’ve Visited

France, India

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia

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