CURRENT MISSION

Write, road trip across the US, travel, write, write, make film, write...

ABOUT ME

I seam to always end up moving around more than staying still, travelling whenever I can, mostly in Europe & SE Asia. I'm addicted to meeting completely different people, but value my real, deep friends, and stay in touch even when they are miles away. I lived in Prague for 3 years, escaping from London to get more time and inspiration for my writing and film-making. I'm now sharing my time between London and Berlin and wherever else my thoughts and travels take me...

PHILOSOPHY

Enjoy life more, work less (or work doing what you love)...why sell the hours of your life to someone else?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

All over the place with my friends, plus with CS in Riga, Tallinn, Berlin, Helsinki, Denmark, Borneo. All good.

Interests

Writing obsessively, dancing, capoeira, making documentary films (breakdancing, capoeira), funk music, scuba diving, travelling (a lot!!)

• writing
• documentaries
• beauty
• dancing
• capoeira
• movies
• traveling
• music
• scuba diving

Music, Movies, and Books

Totally love funk music - Madame Jo Jos club, Soho, London, every friday night, Keb Darge on the decks - breakdancers, funkdancers, perfect. Rockabilly is making it mark on me recently, and the Reggae is always there (old skool dancehall, ska, rocksteady - Sister Nancy, Dawn Penn, Wayne Smith, Toots and the Maytails, Lee Scratch Perry) Some music specifics: Beginning of The End's 'Funky Nassau', Sharon Jones & Lyn Collins (funk goddesses), Cinematic Orchestra, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Young Blood Brass Band, Lali Puna, Max Romeo, Dawn Penn, Stereophonics, The Cat Empire, Chris Muller, RJD2, Zita Swoon, Morphine, Sage Francis, A Silver Mt Zion, Nighthawks At The Diner, Ben Harper, Tom McRae, Groove Armada, Stereophonics, Ani DiFranco, Air, Portishead, Feist, Jolie Holland, Ralph Myerz, Her Space Holiday, Death Cab for Cutie, Ohm Square, Prince, MJ, Nightmares On Wax, Jamiroquai, Imperial Leisure, 13 & God, Beck, Bonobo, The Decemberists...as for book obsessions (Haruki Murakami, Kundera, Kafka, Paul Theroux, Camus, Bukowski, Jorge Luis Borges, John Irving, Dostoyevsky, Neruda, Hemmingway, Patrick Suskind, Kerouac....endless) and movie passions...Directors: Kim Ki-Duk (3-Iron, Spring Summer Autumn...), Wong Kar Wai (2046, in The Mood For Love) & Chan-wook Park (Old Boy, Symphathy For Mr Vengence), Almodovar, Jim Jarmusch (Ghost Dog, Coffee & Cigarettes, Mystery Train!), Jacques Audiard (The Beat That My Heart Skipped!), Jean-Luc Godard, Krzysztof Kieslowski (Three Colours) + Lost in Translation, Requiem for a Dream, La Haine, Cinema Paradiso, and on and on...they are far too extensive and addictive to list here...;-))

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Scuba diving at night with a dozen manta rays in the Pacific, a huge 6m beauty soaring up and over my head, inches away. Watching the sunrise from the top of Mt Kinabalu, Borneo, exhausted and shivering and smiling. Colliding with a school of 150+ hammerhead sharks coming out of the deep blue off Sipidan Island, Borneo. Surviving a very very big wave.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach you some Capoeira & funk dancing moves...

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Laos, Latvia, Malaysia, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Germany, United Kingdom

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