CURRENT MISSION

Seeing and doing more things

ABOUT ME

I spend most of my time fighting juggernauts, reading large books, talking and eating. I like traveling and living out of a backpack.

PHILOSOPHY

Life should be an endless pursuit of knowledge and experience.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By imposing myself on other peoples' couches, or at least attempting to. I host people when I can, and I'm always happy to help travellers out when I have the time.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed in Norway, Netherlands, Germany and the USA.

Have hosted mostly Germans but also Canadian, Austrian, Spanish, Korean and French peeps.

Interests

Punk/hardcore music, history, travel, compassionate & ethical lifestyles, books, politics, science, trivia, the Occult, occasionally climbing trees, days when it's not raining and I'm outside, rain on days when I'm inside, a deeply passionate hatred for organised religion.

• books
• politics
• trivia
• reading
• traveling
• music
• backpacking
• rock climbing
• history
• religion
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

The Godfather 1 & 2, Wes Anderson films, Stranger Than Fiction, Control, Amelie, Star Wars.

Modern Life is War, Converge, Metallica from 1981-1988, Joy Division, Arcade Fire, Between the Buried and Me, Bear In Heaven, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (entire score), Tom Waits, Coffinshakers, Radiohead, Deadmau5, Modern Life is War, Against Me!, Atmosphere, MGMT, Modern Life is War, Modern Life is War, Modern Life is War.

Kurt Vonnegut, Ryszard Kapucinski, Jack Kerouac, H.P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, Frank Herbert, Paul Collier, Naomi Klein, Dante Alighieri, Franz Kafka, Orson Welles, Ernest Hemingway.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My band traveled to Japan for a 3-week tour in 2008. We drove overnight from Osaka to Tokyo and I awoke in the back seat around 8am. As we came out of a tunnel and rounded a bend in the road, a snow-capped Mt. Fuji appeared right in front of us. It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen, second only to the Milky Way galaxy belt on a clear night in the countryside.

My band also toured Java in Indonesia and visited some places that are as far off the tourist map as can possibly be. This was a truly special experience.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Sweden

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