ABOUT ME

I am an outgoing bloke with a keen interest in the visual arts, literature and music. I spent several years running a small cafe and gallery in Plymouth, UK and am now earning a living as a English teacher and lecturer in Slovakia.

PHILOSOPHY

"father, let this cup pass from me."

"who guards the guards?" / "who watches the watchers?" - juvenal

"better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

"Freedom may be mankind's natural state, but so is sitting in a tree eating your dinner while it is still wriggling."

"In Vino Veritas"

"The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

"Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from coincidence."

"would you have the courage to wait in the garden of gethsemane?"

"i hear trumpets, trumpets in the west calling me home."

"i hear the drums calling me to war."

"It sounds like a piper...a piper at the gates of dawn."

"At every crossroad on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past."
-Maurice Maeterlinck

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. - Ernest Hemingway

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther King

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. - Roald Dahl

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde

As Mao Zedong put it "There is great disorder under heaven, the situation is excellent."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am happy to provide accommodation and tours/information for anyone provided I am in the city when they want to stay!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have had german carpenters, anarchist punks, drunkard blues musicians, artists with vicious pet parrots, homosexual young republicans, midwives, swedish journalists, a ballet troupe, basque separatists, dozens of students and more backpackers to stay than I can count!

Would rather avoid having any more political dissidents or anyone obviously criminal but other than that I'm pretty welcoming to everyone!

PS. not even joking with that list...

Interests

Philosophy, Power Tools, Fashion, Species, Theology, Poetry, Genetics, Body modification, Current Affairs, Evolution, Autism, Do it yourself, Esoterica, Medical ethics, Japan, Space exploration, Wine, Sailing, Smoking, Shooting, Public speaking, Selling Coffee, Fundraising, Publishing, Compering, Michel Houllebecq, Alternative Press

• pets
• arts
• literature
• poetry
• fashion
• diy
• ballet dancing
• ethics
• wine
• coffee
• marathon
• running
• gardening
• technology
• magic
• music
• drums
• blues
• hunting
• sailing
• divinity
• teaching
• genealogy
• visual arts
• tours

Music, Movies, and Books

Music
The Doors, Don McLean, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Motorhead, The Smiths, The Cure, Django Rhinehart, Buffy St Marie, Dead Kennedys, Frank Sinatra, Goldfrapp, Jerry Lee Lewis, Mad Dog Mcrea, Voodoo Bohemians, onec records, Vince Lee - Blues Guitarist, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, French Music UK / bureauexport, Pentorr, Jess Lambert, Anarcho Folko, Buena Vista Social Club, Puccinni, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Bjorn and John, Pendulum, The Beatles, Newton Faulkner, Gogol Bordello, Patti Smith, Bikini Kill, Siouxsie Sioux & the Banshees, Voltaire, Enter Shikari, The Hype Theory, Eyes Unspoken, Flame Fracture, Dead Poets, WIZO, Miss Von Trapp, This Country Needs More Country, Reverend Billy Talen, Upon Collide, Stretch Armstrong (Band), Oui Love Exchange, Black Friday, Poppy Mills (Theangelofmusic), Anarchist Cookbook
The Doors

Books
Ulysses, Dhalgren Samuel R Delaney, The Time Travellers Wife Audrey Niffenberger, The Island of Doctor Moreau Hg Wells, The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame, The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, Paradise Lost John Milton, The Secret Island Enid Blyton, War and Peace Leo Tolstoy, Atlas Shrugged, On the Beach Neville Shute, The Illuminatus Trilogy Robert Anton Wilson, The Fountainhead, Alternative Press, Norwegian Wood, d

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once saw a town where everyone had got up and left in the spring of 1952 and nothing had be touched since.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Slovakia, United Kingdom