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Overview

  • 10 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Spanish
  • 54, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Sound Engineer
  • Graduate
  • From Newcastle, Tyne & Wear, UK
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To Meet and Hang Out With Every Human On Earth

ABOUT ME

Hi I'm a chilled culture fiend with a good brain, thighs and ears, but dodgy eyes and knees.

PHILOSOPHY

If you come to a fork in the road, take it!- Yogi Berra

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed my friends' couches in the US and Belgium over the years (off-CS site) For the last few months I've been hosting a succession of the cooler people on Earth

Interests

OK i like weird music
i like road cycling
i like photography
i play the guitar
i like art
i like reading
i like dancing (badly, like a fool)
i like long walks, both urban and rural
i like philosophising
i like tea, black or green

  • arts
  • culture
  • photography
  • dancing
  • reading
  • music
  • guitar
  • cycling
  • gymnastics
  • engineering

Music, Movies, and Books

Bela Tarr, Brothers Quay, The Wayward Cloud, Herzog (pre-Rescue Dawn of course) Tarkovsky, Reggie Perrin, Chris Morris, Bill Hicks, Jaques Brel, Jake Thackary, Momus, Shellac, Fugazi, Shipping News, Bright Eyes, Fiery Furnaces, Microdisney, IG Culture, Dead C, Throbbing Gristle, US Maple, TFUL282, Jeff Mills and the original Detroit Techno Kate Bush, Phil Ochs, Coil, Ultra-Red, Terre Thaemlitz, The Fall, Hood, World Domination Enterprises, Lords, Ryoji Ikeda, Alexander Trocchi, Samuel Beckett, Raoul Vaniegem, Edward DeBono, Thomas Pynchon, Joseph Heller.......

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i saw a huge squadron of UFO's performing aerobatics over Kensington, flitting hither and thither and yon again. I'm not a nut though, i said UFO's, with the emphasis on Unidentified, not aliens. no, not aliens at all. probably.

Teach, Learn, Share

Um..I'm a good sound engineer
I make good tea

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Ecuador, France, Netherlands, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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