CURRENT MISSION

Keeping it real

ABOUT ME

I'm nice.
I like certain things and I dislike others.
I drink a lot of water.
I rarely kick people in the shins.

PHILOSOPHY

To be is to do - Socrates
To do is to be - Jean Paul Sartre
Do be do be do - Frank Sinatra

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosted back when my couch didn't double as my bed. Now try to meet surfers when I can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Pretty fantastical

Interests

Traveling, music (mostly indie), books, writing, movies, arts, people. Anything can be interesting really, depending on the circumstances and the company.

• arts
• writing
• books
• concerts
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Arcade Fire, The Pixies, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, The Decemberists, The Flaming Lips, Wilco, Belle and Sebastian, Elliott Smith and SO MUCH more.
Books: Catch 22, Tristram Shandy, Hamlet, Kurt Vonnegut, Blake, Philip Roth, Buckowski, Faulkner, Kanyuk, Bulgakov, Dostoyevski, Nabokov, Steinbeck, Zweig, William Burroughs, Camus, Zola and again...A LOT more
Movies: High Fidelity (favourite!), i heart huckabees, the royal tennenbaums (and wes anderson in general), the graduate, adaptation, lenny, singing in the rain, clockwork orange, wet hot american summer, hillary and jackie ...and I'm getting tired...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Iggy Pop in concert, riding up the Himalayas in a jeep at night into the clouds, Petra

Teach, Learn, Share

I speak 4 languages quite fluently, so I'm happy to practice any of them with you.

I'm willing to teach you some guitar chords, but that's about as far as my guitar playing skills go.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Hungary, India, Italy, Jordan, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France, Israel, Latvia

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