CURRENT MISSION

To put the lime in the coconut, and drink the bowl up

ABOUT ME

Hello! I am 23 years old and from Scotland, home of Whisky and the square sausage among other things. I'm an imaginative and open minded traveller and writer, carrying little but a pack on my back and my head on my shoulders, conversation in my pocket and silliness up my sleeve.

PHILOSOPHY

"All generalisations are bad"

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams

"If the cow says moo don't kick it in the face" - David Jack

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have been lucky enough to meet and on a few occassions host some fantastic people from all over the world. My participation so far has all been through my friends and their profiles, so I thought it high time to create my own profile and get involved.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Welcoming travellers to our fair city of Glasgow and its culture has been a source of great pleasure for me and my friends since I turned eighteen. I am currently travelling in Australasia and then in Asia so hopefully there are some interesting experiences ahead of me.

Interests

Things, places, faces, spontenaiety, books, philosophy, creativity, music, animals, cinema, turns of phrase, dialectics, past, present and future

• animals
• culture
• writing
• books
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• logic

Music, Movies, and Books

Music, like oxygen, is vital to my survival. Anything experimental, house, dancehall, dub, reggae, funk, soul, jazz, blues, rock, and anything in between. Viva la music. Examples:

John Martyn - Solid Air
Modeselektor - Monkeytown
Mungo's HiFi - Forward Ever

With cinema my tastes are pretty broad, from sci-fi and art-house, to psychological thrillers and the simple art of a good story told well. Again, here's a few I would reccomend to anyone:

Mr. Magoriums Wonder Imporium
A Scanner Darkly
Marley
Star Trek: Wrath of Kahn

Also, here's a few books I thought were great:

Milan Kundera - The unbearable lightness of being
Robert Musil - The Man without Qualities
Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

As well as this, I greatly enjoy reading people like like Norman Mccaig, Thomas Bernhard and Michael Dransfield, to name a few.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw a man using both hands to fasten his tie, presumably on his way to work, while riding his bike down a hill.

I saw a homeless person reading a Financial times on a street side.

On a street with oncoming traffic I saw a blind woman preventing a young girl from crossing.

Teach, Learn, Share

My main skills lie within being highly logical about nonsense, as well as being nonsensical about logic.
I enjoy offering and imparting everything I have and learning anything someone has to offer me.