CURRENT MISSION

I'm expanding my horizons and looking to meet people who help me open up and think bigger

ABOUT ME

I am fascinated by people. I think of conversation as sport. I'm far more comfortable with grey areas and expansive possibility than with a world seen in black and white. I have this ongoing sense that I'm missing out on something big. I alternate between being very serious and very silly, with very little ground in between the two. I am fascinated with the world of the unseen and am not satisifed with the Western worldview. I like contradictions and things that don't easily make sense. I like nonsense.

PHILOSOPHY

There is no optimum strategy. We need to let go and trust. Connection with others is the very fabric of life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted two fabulous couchsurfers so far, and will hopefully be surfing others' couches as and when I set off on further travels myself.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfing is a wonderful community and I am absolutely in love with the concept. So far, my experience has been incredibly positive and I have met some lovely people.

Interests

Culture and subculture, music, film, art, books, psychology, philosophy, social neuroscience, abstraction, absurdity, nonsense, contradiction, paradox, sentences with ifs and buts, consciousness studies.

And I like a bloody good party, too!

• arts
• culture
• books
• partying
• politics
• socializing
• music
• hiking
• surfing
• sports
• swimming
• neuroscience
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Music:
Burial, Four Tet, Nicolas Jaar, John Talabot, Daughn Gibson, Apparat, White Rose Movement, Joy Division, Nick Cave - Birthday Party, Bad Seeds, The Cramps, The Smiths, The Cure, Cut Copy, Siouxsie, Interpol, Bauhaus, Massive Attack, Chemical Brothers, New Order, Pixies, Cranes, Depeche Mode.

Favorite Movies:
A Scanner Darkly, Waking Life, Science of Sleep, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Departed, Fight Club, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Machinist, Memento, Gerry, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Wild at Heart, Spider, Kill Bill, Hide and Shriek, House of a Thousand Corpses, Shaun of the Dead, Donnie Darko, City of God

Favorite Books:
Chuck Palahniuk, Hunter S. Thompson, Neil Gaiman, Irvine Welsh, Bret Easton Ellis, and lots of non-fiction

I like reading about popular science, philosophy and psychology

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I recently travelled through Vietnam which was extraordinary. Glowing phosophorous on a nighttime swim in Halong Bay. Zipping around on the back of a scooter taxi, praying silently. Hiking through hill tribe villages in Sapa Valley. If you haven't been, GO!

Teach, Learn, Share

People with an interest in philosophy, politics, culture, society and creative people who make and like to share how.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Botswana, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom

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