Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted people from Germany, Canada, Ireland, France, Australia:) Couchsurfed in China, Canada, Germany, France and Spain and they've all been really postive experiences with friendly people I am lucky to now know!

Interests

People! Drums! Guitar! Old Analogue Synthesisers! Tennis! Football (Soccer)! Recycled things! Books! Coffee! Cheese! Languages! Exclamation Marks! Lame jokes!

• books
• cheese
• coffee
• partying
• chess
• guitar
• drums
• hiking
• soccer
• tennis
• languages
• tours

Music, Movies, and Books

Lots of music from Hobart and the world! some favourites being the bedroom pop genius Chad VanGaalen, original pop masters The Beatles & the Kinks but also Caribou, Four Tet, Twin Shadow, LCD Soundsystem, Jamaican ska and reggae music, soul records, Peter Bjorn & John, Neil Young, Talking Heads, Broken Social Scene, Gorillaz, Toro Y Moi, Beirut, TV on the Radio, Deer Tick, The Triffids, The Chills, Red House Painters, Jolie Holland, Wilco, The Lucksmiths, The Magnetic Fields and so on. Some great Tassie bands you should check out/catch a gig of while visiting are Ivy St, Billy Whims, The Native Cats, Treehouse, Peter Ecott, Charles Du Cane, Transcription of Organ Music & Paint Your Golden Face.

I make music with Tiger Choir (the Tiger is the extinct Tasmanian kind of Tiger that looks like this--> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vqCCI1ZF7o)

This is what our band sounds like-->
http://tigerchoir.bandcamp.com/

Being a bit crazy about the Beatles my favourite book is "Revolution in the Head" by Ian McFarlane who writes in depth about every song they ever recorded. Some other books I really liked were Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut and The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Also Richard Flanagan's book Death of a River Guide is a densely imaginitive & original Tasmanian novel you should read sometime.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I Met Ringo Starr when I was 11!

Teach, Learn, Share

-drums, guitar, keyboards
-planning band tours
-putting on stupidly themed parties/gigs
-playing chess on the front porch
-playing pass the pigs
-playing tennis
-tying up yer hiking boot shoelaces
-which way the wind blows, wet your finger and stick it in the air I'm pretty sure.
-i guess I don't have many skills so maybe it's best if you teach me?

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Denmark, Fiji, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia

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