CURRENT MISSION

er., um.. To live well, collectively (totally stole that off someone else). There's also that 'be conscious in the making of history' line.

ABOUT ME

There's two of us...

Alex: originally from Cameron Highlands, Malaysia/Perth,Australia into art and creative stuff, politically minded in a progressive way.

Nick: originally from Terang, Australia into radio and media and also progressive.

We are in a relationship.

PHILOSOPHY

we are progressive types, so all that jazz.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

we've done couchsurfing in the US and Europe. We've hosted when we were living in Perth and have gone to the odd event here and there. We'd like to do more of everything really. But we like to 'do it well', so we space things out for when we have the time and energy.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We've done couchsurfing a fair bit now I suppose (in North America and Europe). We've met cool and interesting people in strange and unfamiliar places - and it's made it all fun, fun, fun. And sometimes entertainingly strange.

Interests

We like indie music, media and progressive politics.

Alex volunteers at a left-wing bookstore, helps run an indie-queer night and runs a writer's group.

Nick volunteers at two community radio stations, producing, engineering, doing interviews and helping out in all other ways. He also helps run the same indie-queer night.

• arts
• writing
• cooking
• running
• politics
• music
• jazz
• golf
• communications
• engineering
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

nick likes Harvey Birdman, Devo, the B52s...

He finds lists difficult.

alex, on the other hand, loves lists!

alex likes Columbo, Gore Vidal, Sal Mineo...

some more music that Alex likes (just cutting from facebook)
Argy Bargy - Squeeze, Colour of Spring - Talk Talk, Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine, Bare Trees - Fleetwood Mac, Born Sandy Devotional - The Triffids, The first, second, third, fouth, sixth, seventh and ninth Go-Between albums, Hourly, Daily - You Am I, Friends In Danger - Magic Dirt, Wahooti Fandango - Custurd, Galactaphonic - Tumbleweed, Adventure - Television, Piper At The Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd, Vauxhall and I - Morrissey, Night of the Wolverine - Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes, Stephen Malkmus self-titled, Where You Been - Dinosaur Jr, Live Through This - Hole, This Nation's Saving Grace - The Fall, Come To Where The Flavour Is - Thermos Cardy, Relationship of Command - At The Drive-In, Datarock Datarock - Datarock, The Trials of Van Occupanther - Midlake, The New Pop Dialogue - Snout, Power, Corruption and Lies - New Order, Chelsea Girls - Nico, Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake, Show World - Redd Kross, Exit The Dragon - Urge Overkill, A Walk Across The Rooftops - The Blue Nile, In It For The Money - Supergrass, After The Gold Rush - Neil Young, Jarvis - Jarvis Cocker, Prayers On Fire - The Birthday Party, Love of Will - David McComb, Real McCoy, Wrong Sinatra - Smudge, Tapestry - Carole King, There's A Riot Goin On - Sly and The Family Stone, 10% Weird - The Meanies, Radios Appear - Radio Birdman, Sonic Nurse - Sonic Youth, Futura - The Clouds, Yellow Submarine s/t - George Martin, The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks, Music Box - Mariah Carey, Terror Twilight-Pavement

Favorite TV Shows that Alex likes:
You Are What You Eat, The Mighty Boosh, Lateline, Look Around You, I'm Alan Partridge, Malcolm in the Middle, Media Watch, Nighty Night, Columbo, The Miraculous Mellops, Breakers, The Golden Girls, Shameless, South Park, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The 7:30 Report, You Can't Do That On Television, Neighbours (circa 86-to the Jay Bunyan years), Family Guy, Wonder Showzen, Yes, Minister, Harvey Birdman, Roseanne, Anderson Cooper 360, The Flight of the Conchords, Two Fat Ladies, Ned and Stacey, Northern Exposure, Ellen, Wifeswap, Birds of a Feather, Big Love, True Blood,

Favorite Books that Alex likes:
Hating Alison Ashley, Myra Breckinridge, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole age 13 and three quarters, Sticky Beak, Misery Guts, Holding The Man, Red Shelley

Blogs:
scanwiches (google it and love it)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Alex loved Niagra Falls. All that water - whoooooosh.

Nick loved mini golf in Ocean City.

Other places we've enjoyed: San Francisco, Olympia, Portland, Asheville, Nashville, New York, Montreal, Philadelphia, Chicago, Flagstaff, Santa Fe, Berlin, London, Galway, Dublin, Barcelona, Gdansk, Krakow.

And then there's the rest of the world too!

Teach, Learn, Share

Alex has got a bit of a background in art, I suppose.
Nick has a bit of a background in media, I suppose.

We can cook some okay versions of things. Nick's got some pc troubleshooting skills. Alex knows Photoshop pretty well.

I'm sure we've got some other skills up our belts too. Need help opening that jar - just ask.

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