CURRENT MISSION

waking up in mexico by accident

ABOUT ME

Lived in the US and China before university in London, I like travel and music and Taoism - and books. Started DJing a few years ago, mainly Big Beat and Psy Trance so far but getting sucked into the epic soundscapes controllerism side too. I like exploring generally - places, materials, trees - but all the best experiences happen with people.

PHILOSOPHY

To search out the secrets of the universe (only secret because they're hard to listen for and to know and by definition obscure) and make my way by this special kind of active attention. So far, through persistent repetition, deviation, study and accident, I have stumbled upon maybe five or six of these secrets of the universe. When I am not careless these secrets let me to see with humility and contentment.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Several happy couchsurfer's have stayed with us in Camden, I'm really pleased at how compelling cs-ers always seem to be, how relaxed and applied to life.

Had a few very positive experiences surfing in Europe - Budapest, Berlin and Istanbul were magical places with those hosts -- couchsurfing is probably my favourite thing about the internet.

Interests

Music, Photography, Painting (appreciation), Tai Qi, Qi Gong, Skating, Reading, Writing (prose), Travelling, Gonzoing, Vagabonding, Taoism, Zen, Tibet

• writing
• books
• photography
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• music
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Gomez, The Peculiar Pretzelman, Radiohead, Ephel Duath, Led Zep, Rolling Stones, Clutch, Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix, Pulp, Rage Against the Machine, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Keith Jarret, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Roy Hargrove, Bebel Gilberto, Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Bossacucanova, Tangaroa, Damian Lazarus, Mylo, Stanton Warriors, Air, Dvorak, Chopin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Carter Burwell, Thomas Newman>>Fight Club, Mulholland Drive, 2046, Oldboy, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, American Beauty, Sin City, Night on Earth (ch. 2), Hero, The Gods Must be Crazy, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Magnolia, Brazil, K-Pax, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, The Belleville Rendezvous, Ratatouille, The Fountain, Gattaca>>Jack Kerouac - Big Sur; Hunter Thompson - Great Shark Hunt, The Rum Diaries; Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle; Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho, Glamorama, Less Than Zero; Chuck Palahniuk - Survivor; Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness; George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia, Down & Out in Paris and London; Ernest Hemmingway - The Snows of the Kilimanjaro, The Sun Also Rises; Albert Camus - The Stranger; Hubert Selby Jr - Last Exit to Brooklyn; Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn; Don DeLillo - White Noise; Neal Cassady - Collected Letters; Charles Schultz - Snoopy features as the Literary Ace; Herman Hesse - Siddhartha; The Zen Teachings of Bodidharma; Nabokov - The Defense, Lolita; Ethan Hawke - Ash Wednesday; Thomas Hoving - Art History for Dummies, Lao Tze – Tao the Ching; I Ching

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Heard an excellent orchestra play Scheherezade live last night with my parents during a big thunderstorm and there was incredible energy and good vibes

Teach, Learn, Share

English, the clarinet, paper swans. Taoism. Mark Rothko... uh... chess?

Countries I’ve Visited

Bermuda, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Peru, Serbia, Slovenia, Taiwan, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, United Kingdom, United States

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