CURRENT MISSION

Find myself, or lose myself around the world.

ABOUT ME

I am an OK person, who constantly dreams of returning overseas - looking for a bit of fun and adventure overseas. I want to broaden my horizons and envelope myself somewhere far far away. I watch way too many movies, listen to a lot of music, play guitar, sleep a lot, and say a lot of bad jokes :)

PHILOSOPHY

"We're all in the cosmic movie. That means the day you die you gotta watch your whole life recurring eternally. So you better have some good incidents happen... and a fitting climax."

- Jim Morrison

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have only couchsurfed once in Germany, and it was an extremely positive experience that reminds me that there is such a thing as the kindness of strangers and that humans who give to each other, even in the smallest ways, can make life amazing.

Interests

Empty movie theatres, time machines, discussing and/or reading about the downfall and/or meaninglessness of modern life, gamines, hard-cover books, Spider-Man comics, abstraction, sushi, love, the studio system, lyrics, old scratched guitars, Cary Grant, beginning, ending, staring, British comedy, sarcasm, jazz, the theory of relativity, Mike Hammer, jeans, t-shirts, Oporto, lists, staying up late, sleeping in, film noir, the quiet of night, the dark, Clark Kent, sultanas, milk from the carton, sudoku, non sequiter, walking across the room to talk to someone, toast, impersonations, sketch comedy, film art/history, the 1930s, typewriters, sunflower seeds, collections, the apocalypse, bass solos, Dagwood Bumstead, textbooks with underlines, dystopia, Charlie Brown, romanticism, art galleries, Howard Moon, live music, opening mail, walking in/watching the rain, surrealism, portraits, modern history, modern classics, George Orwell, black and white, Soviet Russia, unusual time signatures, understanding, formal attire, indoors, respect, the World Cup, scarves, statistics, thongs, signatures, existentialism, thai green curry, cover art, control panels with lots of buttons/switches/knobs, wandering, atmospherics, style, auteur theory, the cold war, the moon, hooks, percussion, theories, nice girls, Paul is dead rumours, box sets, Woody Allen, spelling and grammar, Abbott and Costello, jackets, vests, diplomacy, bad handwriting, specifics, snow, Audrey Hepburn, moments, rockmelon, chivalry, karma, singing in the shower, dancing in the bedroom, canelloni, meandering, winter fashion, wondering, mi goreng noodles, talking, raspberry jam, neuroticism, Philip Marlowe, The Three Stooges, mint slices, the Mothership, indie-fashion, patterns, cultural capital, iPods on trains, the Renaissance, delay pedals, icecream cones, propaganda, Goofy, postmodernism, old organs and synths with wood panelling, reverb, badges, posters, smiles, hugs, chicken dances, cherries, imperfections, stripes, polka dots, sub-titles, the unusual, appreciation, thoughtfulness, hand-written letters, accents, finishing.

• arts
• humanities
• books
• singing
• fashion
• dancing
• polka
• walking
• comics
• movies
• reading
• sudoku
• music
• live music
• jazz
• guitar
• boxing
• world cup
• history
• statistics

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Woody Allen. Richard Linklater. Wes Anderson. Orson Welles. Charles Chaplin. Stanley Kubrick. Alfred Hitchcock. Quentin Tarantino. Robert Altman. Robert Aldrich. Mike Nichols. Akira Kurosawa. Michel Gondry. Carol Reed. Billy Wilder. William Wyler. Alejandro González Iñárritu. Roger Avary. Sidney Lumet. Christopher Nolan. John Huston. Howard Hawks. Vincente Minelli. Steven Soderbergh. Robert Rodriguez. Terry Gilliam. Sofia Copolla. Guy Ritchie. Frank Capra. Cameron Crowe. Martin Scorcese. Stanley Donen. Paul Thomas Anderson. George Clooney. Bob Rafaelson. John Sturges. Norman Jewison. Michael Curtiz. Darren Aronofsky.

Music: The Beatles. Frank Sinatra. Radiohead. Nine Inch Nails. Bjork. The Avalanches. Pink Floyd. Jeff Buckley. Ours. The Mars Volta. The Strokes. The Smiths. The Kinks. The Beach Boys. Oasis. The Necks. Kings Of Leon. Powderfinger. The Doors. PJ Harvey. Air. The Thrills. Daft Punk. Phantom Planet. Led Zeppelin. Muse. The Who. John Coltrane. The Vines. Television. Foals. Sarah Blasko. Rachmaninov. Miles Davis. The Velvet Underground. Explosions In The Sky. Cat Stevens.

Books: George Orwell. Fyodor Dostoevsky. Joseph Heller. Harper Lee. Ernest Hemingway. Albert Camus. Raymond Chandler. J. D. Salinger. Franz Kafka. Aldous Huxley.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

This is really hard to answer. I don't think I've done anything THAT amazing yet. But I think any time I've managed to make someone smile or laugh or feel better about themselves.. well, that's always an amazing thing.

I saw Radiohead live and walked across Abbey Road. Both pretty amazing in themselves.

Countries I’ve Visited

United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia