CURRENT MISSION

To make an Atlas o' the Clouds

ABOUT ME

Since getting a degree and marching off into the wilderness I have tried traveling around Russia and Asia, working for a newspaper, living in London and running the campaign of a Labour Party MP. I guess the 20s are all about careening hopelessly around from place to place banking life experience before the dust settles. In August I walked away from my friends, family and a decent cup of tea so I could live in America for a year, studying urban history and journalism at Harvard.

I also rather like music, books and silly art movies. Particularly music and writing about music.

PHILOSOPHY

I am far too young to have any personal philosophies yet. In the meantime here are some are stole from songs.

"We could stand for a century
Staring
With our heads cocked
In the broad daylight at this thing
Joy
Landlocked
In bodies that don't keep
Dumbstruck with the sweetness of being
Until we don't be."

"I cant believe how strange it is to be anything at all."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have surfed in London, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Phnom Penh, Kuala Lumpur, Albuquerque, LA, New Orleans, Atlanta, Washington, Baltimore, Savannah, Chicago, Jacksonville, Charleston, New York, Schnectady, and Perth, and met up with surfers in Moscow, Shanghai, Hanoi, Ninh Binh, Hue, Singapore, Auckland and Adelaide.

I have hosted and met up with couchsurfers while living in London and in Boston.

Interests

Music of any kind. Music journalism for obscure websites.

Unfortunately, due to a staggering lack of any talent whatsoever I listen to rather than make music. That dream died when I was 11. I was in a band called 'Telekensis'. We split up over creative differences. I haven't tried to make music since...

Because I am a grimly predictable walking cliche of a 23 year old I also like books, politics and travel.

I find it hard to live for a second without The Guardian newspaper. When the apocalypse comes you will find me in the forest trying to carve a Guardian out of bark.

• birds
• arts
• writing
• books
• running
• walking
• partying
• politics
• news
• movies
• traveling
• music
• history
• journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

Music (*deep breath*):
Let start with good (and bad) Hip Hop: Mos Def, Nas, Cadence Weapon, T.I., Jay Z, J-Dilla, Lil Wayne, Saul Williams, Dizzee Rascal, Kanye, Aesop Rock, Ghostface Killlah
Dubstep: Burial, The Bug, Flying Lotus
Electro, both with and without words: Aphex Twin, World's End Girlfriend, Squarepusher, Autechre, Ladytron, Soulwax, The Field, Dntel, Prefuse 73, Air France
Creative North American Indie: The Microphones, Neutral Milk Hotel, Why?, Animal Collective, The Mountain Goats, Dirty Projectors.
Singer/Songwriters who arn't rubbish: Joanna Newsom, Bjork, Elliot Smith, Emmy the Great, Regina Spektor, Fever Ray
Silly British Indie: Los Campesinos!, Johnny Foreigner, British Sea Power, Arap Strap, Frightened Rabbit, Camera Obscura

Greatest song of all time: Joanna Newsom - Emily
Greatest song about travel: Animal Collective - Kids on Holiday

Movies: Lots of stupid art movies. Things by Bergman, Godard, Tarkovsky and David Lynch. I also love There Will Be Blood... Fargo, The Lives of Others, A Scanner Darkly, If...

Greatest movie of all time: Solaris (The Tarkovsky version)
Greatest movie about travel: Before Sunrise

Books: Middlemarch, The God of Small Things, Passage to India, Midnight's Children, Vernan God Little, If on a winter's night a traveller, Bonfire of the Vanities, Everyting is Illuminated, The Secret History, His Dark Materials, Money, My Booky Wook, Wuthering Heights, Anna Karenina, Cloud Atlas, The Remains of the Day, A Fraction of the Whole, The Trial, anything and everything by Virginia Woolf or Jeff Noon...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In 1992 I very nearly completed Sonic the Hedghog 2.

Teach, Learn, Share

Some lessons, none of which are true:

The meteorite is the source of the light
And the meteor's just what we see.
And the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee.

Remember: Stalegmites *might* go down. But they don't.

"'Then who, asked I, tripped the Fall if it weren't Old Georgie?' Eerie birds I din't knowed yibbered news in the dark for a beat or two. The Prescient answered, 'Olduns triped their own Fall.'"

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Cambodia, China, Estonia, Finland, Italy, Malaysia, Mongolia, Russian Federation, Singapore, Sweden, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States

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