ABOUT ME

I'm a 28year old primaryschool teacher who's trying to make things work being a musician.

PHILOSOPHY

"I find it hard to talk about myself. I'm always tripped up by the eternal "who am I?" paradox. Sure, no one knows myself, all sorts of other factors - values, standards, my own limitations as an observer - make me, the "narrator" select and eliminate things about me, the "naratee". I've always been disturbed by the thoughts that I'm not painting a very objective picture of myself.
This Kind of thing doesn't seem to bother most people. Given the chance, people are surprisingly frank when they talk about themselves. "I'm honest and open to a ridiculous degree." they'll say, or "I'm thin-skinned and not the type who gets along easily in the world" or "I am very good sensing other's true feelings." But any number of times I've seen people who say they're easily hurt hurt other people for no apparent reason. Self-styled honest & open people, without realizing what they're doing, blithely use some self-serving excuse to get what they want. And those "good at sensing other's true feelings" are duped by the most transparent flattery. It's enough to make me ask the question: How well do we really know ourselves?"
Haruki Murakami

Interests

Music, Writing, Reading, Drawing

• writing
• reading
• painting
• drawing
• music
• guitar
• teaching
• bass guitar

Music, Movies, and Books

I am Kloot
Spoon
The Smiths
Cole Porter
Half Cousin

Haruki Murakami
Don Delillo
Heinrich Böll
Charles Bukowski

Coen Brothers
P.T. Anderson
Wes Anderson
David Cronenberg

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

love

Teach, Learn, Share

playing the guitar basics
drawing/illustrating basics

What I Can Share with Hosts

things

Countries I’ve Visited

England, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales