CURRENT MISSION

See the world!!

ABOUT ME

I am a student at the University of Glasgow, studying Spanish and Portuguese in my second year. I just returned from a year living and stuyding in buenos Aires! Incredible. Dream of being a music journalist, a musician, a DJ, a travel journalist, a foreign correspondent! I love music. I love books, sometimes. I love films.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is what you make of it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed around Portugal for around three weeks, great times, great people, CS is the future! Couchsurfed in Chile on my way north, met cool people in BS AS.

Interests

Music: listening, creating, writing about, performing. I play alto and soprano saxophone, attempt to compose electronic music and have recently forayed into DJing. Also enjoy writing and exploring through journalism (http://www.rhythmnroots.blogspot.com)

Hispanics n Lusophonics: History, culture, music, language (esp Latin America.)

• culture
• writing
• books
• movies
• traveling
• music
• electronic music
• history
• journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: I will let Mr Nietzsche and Mr Miles Davis answser this one for me:

“Without music, life would be an error.” (Nietzsche)

"Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is." (Davis)

Thus my mind is open to whatever you want to play me!If you care about lists and names and numbers LastFM is fantastic:
http://www.last.fm/user/lowflyingowl/

If not, here are my first loves: Super Furry Animals, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Pixies, Coltrane, Belle and Sebastian, Akron/Family, Autechre, MNML TCHNO, The Smiths, Radiohead, Manu Chao, Tropicalia, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Boredoms, Flaming Lips...so on and so forth.

Books: Favourite author Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Terry Pratchet (as a teenager anyhow) love Russian novels (Turgenyev, Tolstoy, Pushkin...) Pablo Neruda and Borges recently. Currently reading The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Films: Not seen nearly enough films, Cohen brothers, Almodovar, Tarantino etc...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spent five months traveling Central America, best thing to happen (so far) in my life. Especially Cuba, another world, truly, would love to return. Hiked in Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica. Year in Buenos Aires, months travelling round South America.

Teach, Learn, Share

Anything I can, anything anyone wants to know which I know and they don't!

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Portugal, United Kingdom

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