CURRENT MISSION

Trying to reconcile my preference for lighter colours with the necessity of wearing black...

ABOUT ME

I'm affable, sensitive, generous, absent-minded, obsessive, vain, clever, quiet, superficial, confused, misanthropic, moody, shy, puckish, creative, glib, neurotic, gentle, introverted, naive, pretentious, melancholy, indifferent, absorbent, dilettantish...

PHILOSOPHY

"why not?"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

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Interests

travel, sleep, history, love, food, styles, art, music, film, design, photography, friends, technology, flesh, colours, failure, resilience, surprises, creativity, humour, fame, ideas, cities, languages...

• arts
• design
• photography
• dining
• technology
• traveling
• music
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Top Tens! Music: 1.Talking Heads-More Songs About Buildings and Food 2.Laurie Anderson-Strange Angels 3.David Bowie-Lodger 4.The Smiths-The Smiths 5.Velvet Underground-Velvet Underground 6.Sparks-Li'l Beethoven 7.Sonic Youth-Evol 8.Magnetic Fields-69 Love Songs 9.Bjork-Vespertine 10.Brian Eno-Here Come The Warm Jets...Films: 1.A Man Escaped (Bresson) 2.L'Atalante (Vigo) 3.Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) 4.Sherlock Jr (Keaton) 5.Dead Man (Jarmusch) 6.Rebel Without a Cause (Ray) 7.Sunless (Marker) 8.Playtime (Tati) 9.Band of Outsiders (Godard) 10.My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant)...Books? Well, I'm not really literary enough to have a top ten. But I read. At the moment its a compliation of essays on Jean Luc Godard called 'Forever Godard'. And although you didn't ask I just wanted to say that my favourite photographer Wolfgang Tillmans.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I met David Byrne last year...I once had a guest role on a Chinese television sitcom... I won the lucky door prize at an Austrian goth disco...

Teach, Learn, Share

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Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Russian Federation

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia

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