I'm from Brisbane, Australia and I have left for a year long walk about because it was being too good to me. So many friends and family and fun things that I wasn't finding enough time for myself in order to write my first absurdist novels and finish my first screenplay. Since the new year I have been to NY, Cuba, Colombia, sailed to Jamaica and The Bahamas and back to my childhood home in Texas.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet open-minded people, learn cultural intricacies and have authentic experiences all around the world.

Interests

All art. Literature, film and music my three major passions. Travel, obviously. Adventure, more specifically. The water is my home. Swimming, sailing, surfing, kayaking, diving, rafting, running in the rain.
Yoga and clean living.
Alcohol and fried food.
Mythology, folklore, history, philosophy, anthropology, psychology.

• writing
• literature
• theater
• film making
• reading
• jazz
• rock climbing
• ocean

Music, Movies, and Books

All music (Radiohead, Gang of Youths, Arcade Fire, Miles Davis, Led Zeppelin, Nina Simone, Tom Waits, Kendrick Lamar, Marvin Gaye, David Bowie, LCD Soundsystem, Beirut, The Black Angels, The Velvet Underground)
Classic, Arthouse and foreign films (Coen brothers, Kubrick, Tarantino, Scorsese, Renoir, Truffaut, Godard, Gilliam, Miyazaki, Kurosawa, Kon, Linklater, Iñárritu, Bergman, Hitchcock, Aronofsky)
Postmodern, absurdist, existentialist, pataphysics, magical realism, modernism, philosophical, historical (Thomas Pynchon, Ayn Rand, Kurt Vonnegut, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, Hunter S Thompson, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Flann O'brien, Tom Robbins, Haruki Murakami, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov, Umberto Eco, Philip K Dick, David Mitchell, Raymond Chandler, David Foster Wallace, William Gaddis)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sailed the Caribbean.
Bathed naked with snow monkeys.
Seen live Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, The Cure, Buena Vista Social Club, Roger Waters.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'm a good vegetarian cook and even better at cleaning. I bring travelling with me a hard drive of thousands of films, a kindle of hundreds of books, and unfortunately a dead iPod. I always bring with me a great outlook, a positive attitude and a malleable nature, happy to party for days or sit and read for a week.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, Panama, Peru, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, United States