CURRENT MISSION

Seeking strength in body and mind

ABOUT ME

I'm an extroverted, social kind of person but I am entirely comfortable alone too, which has been a boon whilst travelling.

I like books and music and dancing. I love the beach. Meeting new people never gets old either.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

When I lived in North Melbourne I used to host fairly regularly, and met a great bunch of people that way. In Brunswick hosting happened less often, due to houesemates not so amenable to the idea, but we had a few guests.

I have been to the odd meetup, but am not greatly invlved in the Melbourne CS community.

Now I am on the roadmyself, and participate mainly by surfing other people's couches, meeting up with them and going to the odd CS event. I have been impressed bythe generosity and kindness of al the CSers I've met on my travels.

Interests

Reading
Listening to music
Skiing
Dancing
Writing
Art
Theatre
Copyright Reform
Sustainability & environment
Japanese Underground Pop Culture; )
Emerging Technology

• arts
• culture
• writing
• books
• dancing
• capoeira
• environment
• technology
• reading
• traveling
• music
• surfing
• skiing
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
The Mountain Goats, Modest Mouse, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Sufjan Stevens, Orbital, John Lee Hooker, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Buckley, Tool, Muse, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Aphex Twin, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, DJ Hype, Acen, 4 Hero, Nightmares on Wax, Nine Inch Nails, Boards of Canada, The Books, B(if)tek, Gomez, Placebo, Fantômas, Faith No More, Rage Against The Machine, Björk, Keith Jarrett, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Broken Social Scene, Architecture in Helsinki, Bluetech, Shpongle, Massive Attack, Nouvelle Vague, Flaming Lips, Air, Joy Division, John Coltrane, The Hold Steady, Primus, John Butler Trio, Ben Folds, Bloc Party, Jimi Hendrix, The Cure, Jurassic 5, Bob Marley, Kraftwerk, Portishead, Jamiroquai, Iron and Wine, Calexico, Infected Mushroom, Prodigy, Hilltop Hoods, Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, Explosions in the Sky, Manitoba, Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, The Crystal Method, DJ Shadow, U.N.K.L.E, Peaches, Cake, Custard, The Beatles, A Perfect Circle, Ani DiFranco, The Avalanches, Beth Orton, Emiliana Torrini, Devendra Banhart, Elliot Smith, Gorrilaz, Machine Gun Fellatio, Metallica, Nitin Sawnhey, NTM, Oasis, Shihad, Something For Kate, Nirvana, Pixies, Powderfinger, Rammstein, Regurgitator, Salmonella Dub, Sigur Ros, Skunk Anansie, Sonic Youth, The Violet Femmes, Soundgarden, Spiderbait, Squarepusher, Ken Ishii, Takkyu Ishino, Tsuyoshi Suzuki, Supertramp, Tiken Jah Fakoly, TISM
Favorite TV Shows:
Scrubs
Black Books
Young Ones
Heroes
Black Adder
Coupling
Favorite Movies:
A Scanner Darkly, Amelie, Metropolis, Labrynth, Random Harvest, Baraka, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, The Matrix, Sneakers, A Night at the Roxbury, Monty Pythons Life of Brian, Thank you for Smoking, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tron
Favorite Books:
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Tom Wolf)
100 years of solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Future Shock (Alvin Toffler)
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Flow My Tears the Policeman Said (Philip K Dick)
The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)
Timpertill (Henry Winterfield)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Looked down on a seeming ocean of clouds lit up by a full moon as I climbed mount Fuji.

Danced in the Australian outback as the moon completely eclipsed the sun for an all-too brief minute.

Played in the Bloco da Capoeira at Salvador Carnaval.

Scaled the icy summit of Huayna Potosi to 6088m, in Bolivia.

Stood at the edge of the most powerful waterfalls in the world in Foz de Iguazu.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Malta, Montenegro, New Zealand, Oman, Peru, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Japan, Papua New Guinea

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