CURRENT MISSION

To see the world and be back in time for dinner

ABOUT ME

I'm open to change and envisage having a future somewhere overseas. I've been working in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan for just over two years.

PHILOSOPHY

"Opportunity is the parent of addiction."

I feel it's worth pursuing the opportunities life presents you, as you'll discover the things that make life worth it and hopefully become attached.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting and surfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My CouchSurfing experience thus far has been under the wings of a much more experienced surfer than I, who showed me the way in Switzerland, Slovenia and Macedonia.

Interests

Home cooking and home brewing are loves of mine. So too music. I've been really into Coldwave music of late and love early experimental electronic music as well as lot of the interesting sounds that came about after the explosion of punk music.

I think I have a fairly irreverent sense of humour, and like to indulge myself in my interests of current affairs, politics and philosophy.

• cooking
• politics
• music
• punk music
• electronic music
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: City of God, North Face, Der Seewolf, Il Grande Silenzio, Fitzcarraldo, Persona, Sophie Scholl – The Final Days, Inside I'm Dancing, Disco Pigs, 24 Hour Party People, The Great Escape, John Rabe, Human Traffic, Lost in Translation, All Quiet on the Western Front, Into the Wild, Citizen Kane, Festen, Four Lions, Die Welle, Fight Club, Smultronstället, The 39 Steps, Koyaanisqatsi, Goodbye Lenin, Die Fetten Jahre Sind Vorbei - The Edukators, The Lives of Others, The Sinking of the Laconia, Anchorman, Control, A Clockwork Orange, This Is England, Network, Gasland, Berlin Calling, Bloody Sunday, New Kids Turbo, Dirty Harry, Shackleton, Nanga Parbat, Lawrence of Arabia, The Social Network, Welcome to Sarajevo, Die Fälscher, Der Baader Meinhof Complex, Endgame, The Longest Day, Woman in the Dunes.

Television and Documentaries: The Fast Show, A Cook on the Wild Side, Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again, Yes Minister, Escape to River Cottage, Newsnight, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, The Inbetweeners, John Adams, The Death of Yugoslavia, Long Way Round, BBC: The Code, Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe & Newswipe, 15 Storeys High, The Secret Life of Buildings, Black Mirror, Vous Les Femmes, Fawlty Towers, Fresh Meat, This Week, Wilfred, Monkey Dust, Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain, The World at War, The Century of the Self, The Daily Politics, Shooting Stars, Peep Show, The Young Ones, Brass Eye, SF Bi De Lüt, Gier, How Not to Live Your Life, Any Human Heart, Men Behaving Badly, Bottom, 10 O'Clock Live, The Thick of It, Portlandia.

Music: (There's to be no such thing as a guilty pleasure; if you enjoy it, you enjoy it!) Post Punk, Trance, Drum and Bass, Techno, Minimal, Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Post Rock, Experimental, Coldwave, Progressive Dance, New Wave, Neue Deutsche Welle, Austropop, Ska, Synthpop, Ambient, House, Indie/Alt. Rock, Folk Rock, Early Gothic Rock, Electro, Prog. Rock, Dub/Reggae, Italo Disco.

Books: The Stranger (Albert Camus), Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell), Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell), Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), Dubliners (James Joyce), Scoop (Evelyn Waugh), The Places in Between (Rory Stewart), The Fall (Camus), The Soul of Man under Socialism (Oscar Wilde), Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (Hunter S. Thompson), The Punishment of Gaza (Gideon Levy), Alone in Berlin (Hans Fallada), Dear Illusion (Kingsley Amis).

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, Norway, Serbia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Japan, United Kingdom

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