CURRENT MISSION

Develop knowledge, mixing academic and alternative culture

ABOUT ME

Open minded, smart and indie

PHILOSOPHY

Afford the time is the greatest gold

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Supporting people coming and asking about Milan, visiting others around the world.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I started with India, to focus later on Europe and world, as a special guest and guide in Milan.
In these trips someone tried to steal my car, I had to fight in slumps several times, I went to the hospital due to bad hosts, etc..., latest in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, after the second night the host asked me money at 11 pm, when she realized that I come from a richer country, of course I left the house within 10 minutes. I learn a lot from negative experience, but most of the couchsurfing ones were nice.

Interests

Parachuting, literature, art, music, economics, financial markets, cars, motorbikes, boats, politics, philosophy, food, beverages, in general what I cannot completely figure out.

• arts
• culture
• literature
• dining
• politics
• cars
• music
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

I love all the movies of Fellini (La Dolce Vita first of all), I also appreciate other Italian directors as Alberto Sordi, Sergio Leone (Once upon a time in America is the best), Paolo Villaggio, for the single Italian movies, La Grande Guerra, Teorema, Amici Miei I, Profondo Rosso, Una Famiglia Perfetta. Regarding the foreign movies I mention The Godfather I, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Harry Brown, Rocky I, Apocalipse Now, Looking for Mr Goodbar, Todo sobre mi madre, Wall Street, The Big Short, Margin Call, Taxi Driver, The Hunt for Red October, Point Break, The Heat, A Few Good Men, Ronin, The Sting, Scarface, Trainspotting, Der Himmel Uber Berlin, American History X, Black Hawk Down, Body of Lies, Blood Diamond, American Beauty, The Others, Doom Generation, 36, rue des Orfèvres, Bad Santa, Joyeux Noël, Gran Torino, Green Zone, The Family Man, Lost in Translation, The Dreamers, Generation War, Rush, American Sniper, Now You See Me, Inception. I like some series as Twin Peaks, New York Police Department, X-Files, Ally McBeal, Sex & the City The Sopranos, The Schield, Hustle, 24, Strike Back, I Medici, Narcos, How to Get Away with Murder, Midnight Gospel, Rick and Morty.

The spychedelic, post rock and alternative music (Velvet Underground, Can, Neu!, Doors, Red Crayola, Throbbing Gristle, United States of America, Red Temple Spirit, Savage Republic, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Jesus and Mary Chain, Spacemen 3, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Low, Galaxie 500, Bark Psychosis, Dogbowl, Mercury Rev, Stereolab, Swervedriver, Beat Happening, Flaming Lips, Portishead, Babes in Toyland, Slint, June of 44, Tortoise, Goodspeed You Black Emperor, Calexico, Los Campesinos, Rodan, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Shellac, Yo la Tengo, Rachel's, Dirty Three, Morphine, Cul de Sac, Lightwave, Royal Trux, Bardo Pond, Hash Jar Tempo, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blonde Redhead, Broadcast, Death Cab For Cutie, Laika, Kills, Books, Animal Collective, At The Drive In, Spring Heel Jack, Fiery Furnaces, Add n To (X), Coastal, Solex, Lisa Germano, Cat Power, Atlas Sounds, Vampire Week-End, Arcade Fire, Julia Holter, Katie Gately, Joanna Newsom, Endon, Pyrrhon, Stabscotch, 75 Dollar Bill, Soft Moon).

Philosophers: Pascal, Popper, Nietzsche, Seneca, Schopenhauer.

Writers, literature: Leopardi, Dostoevskij, Flaubert, Hugo, Gogol, Palazzeschi, Wilde, Cechov, Kafka, Hesse, Sartre, Montale, Pirandello, Svevo, Joyce, Saint-Exupéry, Bulgakov, Beckett, Borges, Gadda, Bolmat, Pelevin, Kundera, Nabokov.

Writers, economics, sociology, statistcs, etc: Antti Ilmanen, Carmen Reinhart, Daniel Kahneman, Daron Acemoglu, Harold Vogel, Hyman Minsky, James Montier, James Robinson, Joel Mokyr, Kenneth Rogoff, Michael Mauboussin, Nassim Taleb, Nate Silver, Robert Shiller, Steve Keen, Yuval Noah Harari.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

If you have time to analise something will no longer be funny

Teach, Learn, Share

From ordinary life

What I Can Share with Hosts

The best (only upon written request also the worst) of the Italian culture

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Jersey, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Oman, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Switzerland, United States

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