CURRENT MISSION

dwindling about

ABOUT ME

i put the more flavoured side of a dorito face down when i eat it. every time i walk past a tourist shop and see a japanese girl buying a boomerang, i cringe. i like good food, beer & wine. i like to sleep in, but when i get up, i regret wasting the day. i had to study latin at school when i was 13, and i got last in the year for our end-year exam. i studied italian for 8 years, but don't really remember anything. my school also made me learn sanscrit; i didn't bother at all. i regret it. when it rains really heavily, sometimes i walk out of my house fully clothed, and walk to the beach where i sit on the sand and enjoy the downpour for hours. people always ask me, 'what's your background?'. in my year 10 yearbook, i was voted 'funniest boy in the year'. in year 12, we never got a yearbook. instead of replacing my printers ink cartridges, i just buy a new printer instead. i feel terrible about it. i play the drums. i thought mayonnaise was amazing, until i went to amsterdam and sampled dutch condiments. i've lived in the same place in north bondi all my life. recently i've become vegetarian, almost...

more to come, surely.

ps: i'm australian. i just live here.

PHILOSOPHY

let's have a late-night spliff and then talk personal philosophy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

every time i visit a country, i want to learn their language. so then i get all motivated, like 'oh man, i'm totally going to learn italian!', i might even pick up an italian-english dictionary, then i get on the train to go to france, and the same thing happens. 'oh man! i'm totally going to learn french!' so who knows what will happen here.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

a few hookups on cs, and some without it. the most incredible so far has been with a friend in the south of france; not many people spoke english, which is kind of tricky when you can't speak french, but by the end i was able to read french and understand it. irrespective of the language barrier, i had an incredibly memorable time. this was something different.

i've surfed in paris, nimes (france), berlin, london, oxford, amsterdam, antwerp, vienna, hamburg, gothenburg, belgrade, naxos (greece)

Interests

riding bicycles, cracking my knuckles, night trains, the rain, the ocean, infomercials, trains & planes, lamps, op shops & garage sales, jumping in lifts....

• dining
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• vegetarian
• shopping
• flowers
• traveling
• garage sales
• drums
• bungee jumping
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

www.bondifm.com.au has a live stream will give you a good chunk of my musical interests. check it out! badass tunes.

randomly: moby, sly & family stone, sinatra, joy division, rick james, gil scott heron, curtis mayfield, iggy pop, gramatik, aerosmith, gorillaz, mark ronson, marilyn manson, the xx, belle & sebastian, john coltrane, bowie, rolling stones, bronze nazareth, the doors, the bamboos, angus & julia stone, pivot, the heavy, johnny cash, the national (i haven't updated this list in ages)

i used to pride myself on my vast collection of stolen mp3s, but i've more recently started to collect vinyl. i guess i subconsciously hated that mp3s weren't tangible? like, you'd be buying this 'digital matter' and i feel like it wasn't worth it. cd's were always a bit of a wank for me though. i can honestly say i've bought 3 cd's in my life. i feel like a bad person sometimes.

i usually listen to community radio in sydney, including bondi fm when at home, eastside radio for jazz, 2ser for local & indie, and fbi. also a bit of triple j thrown into the mix. i really like radio. i used to host a show a few months ago, which was fun. also, i'm a subscriber to these stations, if it offsets the bad impression i gave you about music in the above paragraph...

books, um, okay well, coffee table magazines are good? i like solid picture books on architecture, design, fashion, art, street magazines, i have a mad magazine collection too.

film! awesome. i can't write all the movies i enjoy, but recently i've really enjoyed: the spanish apartment, control, koyaanisqatsi, stroszek, the discreet charm of the bourgeois, waltz with bashir, happy endings, forgetting sarah marshall, this is england, happy endings...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i lost my wallet on the first day of traveling the world. wasn't amazing, but it was pretty memorable.

stayed on a houseboat in srinagar.

stayed at the golden temple in amritsar.

lived in new york city.

bought a car in prescott az and drove around the west coast for a month.

cycled down an 18 500 ft mountain in ladakh, falling off halfway and requiring the medical expertise of the indian army, (and a brief visit to hospital)

bungee jumped some two hundred something meters into the bhote-kosi river gorge in nepal, like a little girl, according to onlookers.

got gassed and robbed on a night train from prague to budapest.

Teach, Learn, Share

i can teach you how to cook toast. i can fix minor problems with your computer. i can let you use my ebay account, maybe even paypal if we're at that level of trust. i can teach you how to make a flower out of a bar napkin too.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Nepal, Netherlands, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia

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