I'm a simple man with simple interests.
I enjoy playing, listening to and creating music - all music.

I'm a lanky Australian man(boy) who, with my lovely parter (Madeline is her name), is emigrating to Germany. I've lived a good coupla decades in Australia and now want to try something else. In the meantime her and I are travelling southern Europe.
I'm mild-mannered, I spose, and chill.
Vaguely chill.
I'm a vegetarian, an intermittent smoker, courteous, mostly happy, in love, calm, politically outraged and rational. yeah nah sweet

I've done very little travelling, though and so feel naive to this stranger and stranger world and being an anglophone feel perhaps a little out of my depth taking on Europe the way I am. But where is one to go if not outside one's comfort zone?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm here to meet people on the road, to make friends and to get involved in where I'm staying. I want to find comfort outside of this comfort zone.
Me and Maddy don't want to be tourists, we mostly just want to enjoy the space we're in.
I want to find that corner coffee shop or that wasted laneway. I want to drip in the place I myself in.

Interests

• coffee
• yoga
• politics
• chess
• music
• having long limbs

Music, Movies, and Books

Chopin's Preludes
Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring
Frank Ocean
The Beach Boys
Can
Beethoven's 5th and 6th
Stars Of The Lid
Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
Sun Ra, Respighi, Albinoni, McCartney, Coltrane (Alice and John), Mahler, Anderson .Paak, Timberlake, Rachmaninoff, Laurie Anderson, American Football, Holst, Debussy, Gerry Mulligan, Glass Animals, Dvorak, DJ Shadow, Vangleis, Eno, Satie, Vivaldi
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Kubrick
Buster Keaton
Terrence Mallick
Adam Curtis
Shane Caruth

Huxley
-Brave New World
-Crome Yellow
Verner Vinge
Asimov
A soft spot for most Space Opera
& a slew of non-fiction reading

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Squatted in an abandoned Pub in Melbourne and turned it into a party house for three and a half weeks. There was hot water, internet, food, spices, furniture and all kinds of secrets. Ridiculous times.

Teach, Learn, Share

Music
Language
Stories
Cooking
Experience

What I Can Share with Hosts

Like most I can share good conversation, I can give a good discussion about the difference between good and bad coffee or completely fumble my around most topics but most of all I can bring music.
Conversation about music, sure but I can play guitar and piano forever.
I sing, too, and I'm more than happy to play music and teach music to whoever I encounter.

Countries I’ve Visited

New Zealand, Switzerland