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  • 7 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Czech; learning English, German
  • 45, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Developing the way of life
  • Doubtful
  • From Prague
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To buy a car in Kerala India:) Its much more challenging than it sounds...

ABOUT ME

I left Prague to India with my two best friends. Now I reamake the exile into a quest for a new space, so far in Kerala, South India. I already found out the shape of necessity in freedom and selfconfidence-reflected development of life. (My life before... I went through nervously, unsurely, and ridiculously, sometimes enthusiastically and often blindly. I have had hard trouble with reflection of the real potentials and powers I deal with, both in me and in the other people, but I have no talent to identify with anything unpersonal and unhonest, unauthentic. Divided into an attempt to escape every pattern and schema, and inner tendency to secure myself with the fake life-insurencies. I went always my way with the influences of the people who became un-leavable living parts of my path thanks to their and my sensitivity for life and its reflection.)

PHILOSOPHY

Im trying to jump up forward from the block of my life story which is already known, to something reflecting the previous stages and taking them into account, but not following the pattern. I always behaved like it would be possible to stay behind some unstraight signs - what I read and listen to, what I created myself, whould witness who I am more then my own selfdescription. Partly it works, it tells a lot, of course it tells a lot about me even to me, especially when mirrorized by the others. But then again - none of marked crossdefining by activities, interests and quotes can describe me or my real life approach. One needs to observe and re-create himself constantly and precisely, what is almost impossible without the others in deep connection. My eyes will never see themselves..

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

With the Farcaster life-partners I runned the B12 residency at Vinohrady, Prague. http://farcaster.webnode.cz/residency-b12/
B12 is the best example of how do I imagine hosting and surfing. Means you never should feel pushed there to fall into pattern of "making friendship", nor using it as a "free hotel" only. It is always about the meeting itself and it totally depends on both sides, where it would lead. After all it is a selective place focused on interesting, open minded, vivid, original people, who reflect their lifepath. Nevertheless, B12 is a world of beauty and space of my lifestory.
Sure - I use CS as an surfing guest a lot.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Unexpectively I met some of the most interesting persons via CS, which I still can not believe. But I doubt it is CS mrit.
Recently I left the stucked life in Prague for the reflective life-journey with the best friend Olda. Journey focused on reshaping the life-situation and development of my frozen story went through the deep touches to an big change of the perspective of my self-understanding and next life possibilities. CS was helping to go through.

Interests

Thinking, dreaming, storytelling, mind-torturing
Musicioning; most of all creating the music; I was playing the guitar and singing for http://bandzone.cz/disquiet
Moviesing; most of all movie watching, but also shooting
Visual artsing; most of all visuals watching, but also creating visually nice situations from time to time
Literaturing; most of all reading of novels, but also writing texts, articles, notes and remarks, proofreading, book editing (Wow, I remember I wrote one book for children, even, http://www.amazon.fr/Les-aventures-dUlysse-Milos-Koptak/dp/2700023854/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1352598765&sr=8-2)
Sleeping; most of all addicted to sleeping and detoxing of sleeping too much without any yielding

  • writing
  • books
  • singing
  • beauty
  • cooking
  • reading
  • music
  • guitar
  • hunting
  • surfing
  • visual arts

Music, Movies, and Books

I use to read a lot of books. I remember I loved Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, Céline's Journey to the End of Night, Norman Mailer's An American Dream and Heller's Catch 22 most of all. Then everything written by Kafka and Babel. And some great Czech writers, such as Věra Linhartová, Václav Havel, Jan Hanč, Richard Weiner, Egon Hostovský, Ladislav Fuks, Jiří Fried... Recently I was amazed by Hesse's Steppenwolf, Permutation City by Greg Egan, The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, Im going through Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson with the great amusement...

But yes, I still listen to tons of bands and musicians. Very hard to choose the most beloved. Say Beatles, Portishead, Radiohead, Fugazi, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Primal Scream, Black Grape, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Feist, Moimir Papalescu and The Nihilists, MIDI LIDI, Gorillaz, The Strokes, Be Your Own Pet, White Stripes, Kasabian, Arcade Fire, RATM, RHCP, At the Drive In, Herbie Mann, David Thomas, The Bliss, Veena, Jazz Q Prague, UJD, OTK, Veena, Rollins Band, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Blur, Chopin, The Good, The Bad and The Queen, Arctic Monkeys, Ravelin 7, Deftones, The xx...
Nowadays I have Battle of Mice and The Fall by Gorillaz in my player.

There are several directors I really like: Carax, Truffaut, von Trier, Kieslowski, Nolan, Haneke, Tarantino... Last great experience was brought by The Passanger / Professione: reporter, Holy Motors, Mauvais Sang, Amour (Haneke) and Vrah skrývá tvář. And I really think, that movie is the most exciting form of art, even if I don't watch movies as much as I would like to.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have left everything of my frozen life and got to an existencial journey to an open future. I betrayed myself - it was not total and honest step, so it brought a lot of energy and pain to get to know who I am and who I thought I was.

Teach, Learn, Share

I cook outstanding soups according the my grandma's manners. I can tell stories. Also, I play the electric guitar, write songs, sing them, sometimes..

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