CURRENT MISSION

To try and make the ordinary things in life a little more extraordinary

ABOUT ME

I'm a laid back kinda guy but I'm always up for doing something spontaneous or silly, ever the optimist, I have a tendency to be over impulsive which has lead me on many adventures, some good some bad but always fun none the less. I have quite a sarcastic sense of humor and love to joke and laugh. I don't really care for sports but still like to keep active by walking, hiking and riding my bike.

PHILOSOPHY

"I was walking far from home...I saw sinners making music and I've dreamt of that sound.."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm more than happy to meet fellow Couch Surfers in and around Birmingham, to show them around or meet up for drinks.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've surfed in the UK and around parts of Europe. I also host and meet Couch Surfers around Birmingham quite regularly too.

Interests

I absolutely love photography, going to music gigs, parties, going to see movies, museums, art galleries, walking, hiking, bike riding, almost anything really. I'm very much open to trying new things and will always be willing to try anything at least once (never say never, right?)

• arts
• photography
• walking
• partying
• drinking
• movies
• music
• live music
• cycling
• hiking
• sports

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp - William Henry Davies
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
The Incredible Tide - Alexander Key
Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist
Olivia - Olivia
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Villette - Charlotte Brontë
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Candide, ou l'Optimisme - Voltaire
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Gormenghast trilogy - Mervyn Peaks
Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Short Stories and Poems - Edgar Allen Poe
the complete works - John Keats
Collected Poems - W. H. Auden
Songs Of Travel - Robert Louis Stevenson
and anything by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Movies:
Amélie, Lost in translation, 2 Days in Paris, 2 Days in New York, Happy-Go-Lucky, Moon, Step brothers, Pineapple express, Conversations with Other Women, Inception, Airplane!, Snatch, Tekkonkinkreet, When You're Strange, The Next Three Days, The Departed, The Matrix, Paprika, Kontroll, Let the right one in, Fight Club, Hard Boiled, Ong-Bak, The Warriors, 500 Days of Summer, Before Sunrise, Before sunset, Youth In Revolt, Watchmen, Somewhere, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Paper Heart, Napoleon Dynamite, Leaving Las Vegas, Hanna, Clerks 2, Amintiri din epoca de aur, Pan's Labyrinth, The Vengeance Trilogy, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Tokyo Godfathers, Wristcutters: A Love Story, Turn Me On Dammit, Requiem For A Dream, Waking Life, The Darjeeling Limited, Submarine, Garden State, Everything Is Illuminated, The Science of Sleep, anything by Studio Ghibli movies, And Mel Brooks films.

Music:
Women's Hour, Rhye, , Future Islands, Bonobo, CocoRosie, Baths, Forest Swords, Sister Crayon, Memoryhouse, Alela Diane, Wild Beasts, Best Coast, iamamiwhoami, Alessi's Ark, Beach House, Lucy Rose, Joanna Newsom, Tokyo Police Club, Craft Spells, Lykke Li, Dog Is Dead, Other Lives, Wintersleep, Roads and Boats, Four Tet, The Drums, The Jezabels, Loch Lomond, Elbow, Villagers, Beirut, Clams Casino, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jonquil, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Stereophonics, The Rolling Stones, Gorillaz, Foals, The Who, Regina Spektor, PIXIES, Delphic, Thieves Like Us, Cults, Simone White, Bombay Bicycle club, Gold Panda, Broken Social Scene, Iron & Wine, Brett Dennen, WarPaint, Juliana Barwick, Alex Clare, The Bees, Pulled Apart by Horses, Silversun Pickups, Flyleaf, Fleet Foxes, The Miserable Rich, The Luyas, The Doors, Sufjan Stevens, Steve Reich, The Clash, Sigur Rós,Noah And The Whale, King Creosote, James Blake, I Am Kloot, Freelance Whales, Braids, Boards Of Canada, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Battles, Band of Horses,Yann Tiersen, The Cure, Blamstrain, Clint Mansell, Autolux, Two Door Cinema Club, School of Seven Bells, Led Zeppelin, Olafur Arnalds, Kúra, Oasis, White Lies, Washed Out, Thom Yorke, The Maccabees, Tall Ships, Craig Armstrong, Shinichi Osawa, Radiohead, Pendulum, Nouvelle Vague, Nick Drake, Modeselektor, Massive Attack, Magnetic Man, Kasabian, Grizzly Bear, Friendly Fires, Aphex Twin, Doves, Crystal Castles, Brian Eno, Boy and Bear, The Black Keys, Black Feelings, The Chemical Brothers, Broadcast 2000, Jamie T, The Prodigy, Daft Punk, DJ Shadow, UNKLE, Arctic Monkeys, The xx, David Axelrod, The Magic Numbers, Linkin Park, The Stereophonics.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I'm not sure if this is amazing or blasphemous but after spending 48 hours riding around on trains going in the wrong direction with no sleep at all, I eventually ended up in Paris for the second time. Whilst waiting for the next train from Paris to Munich and being so tired, I decided to go to Notre Dame Cathedral where I pretended to pray so I could catch a few zzz's!

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd love to learn more about other peoples cultures and personal beliefs. Everybody has a story to tell and I would love to hear them.

I'm an avid photographer and if you are too, I'd be up for a photowalk or shoot around the city.

I've been told I've got quite the music collection and I love to share it with other people.

I can also suggest great venues around Birmingham to go and see some live music.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom