I'm a Spanish 33-year old computer. Hi.

Facts: I'm the worst hyper-motivated cook. I buy maps compulsively. I like kids to be at least four meters away from me. I worship Bill Gates for creating Microsoft Word's automatic spelling check, the world needed it... (however, don't ask me for spelling perfection in a foreign language). I like the word "douchebag" and saying "c'est un trou du cul".

More accurately: I'm like an old lady, I sort of long for those days of dark bars with a Sinatra song playing, my Manhattan on one hand and a cigarette on the other. Oh God! They had so much style!

...I appear to be 12 years old and I'm also a little shy. Particularly when I find myself in a group of people. But that vanishes pretty fast, the moment I find an interesting topic to talk about and/or I'm drunk.

I'm a calm person, but of course I party every once in a while. I think I'm nice and very polite but I'm a hardcore talker and I engage myself in no matter what discussion with passion, which is sometimes misunderstood.

I'm very rational and very emotional at once.

A slightly more organised info:
I studied a 5-year bachelor in biology in the first place. Then took the bohemian lost way and got into a bunch of different disciplines but I guess always in shallow waters: I wrote some film critics, coordinated a film club, attended a writing workshop for 6 years, published a short story book with some other friends, did a no-budget-at-all-documentary in Turkey (and never got to edit it, therefore, finish it), etc. Of course, all of this was unpaid. I made a living working as a private teacher (I taught english, french, math, physics and chemistry to teenagers), and I was a light technician in jazz/flamenco concerts and theater plays which was pretty awesome.

I tried to start a career in cinematography for a while, but then filmmaking and I broke up, it got ugly. We didn't speak to each other for years but now we try to keep a cordial distant friendship. Back then, I stuck my head in filmmaking, camera operating, lighting, editing, or anything at all, but there weren't that many options to work in Madrid and it didn't really work out so... I decided to move to Berlin, not precisely known as the land of opportunity but rather the land of lost unemployed souls, attempt to learn German (failing miserably) while studying a Master on International Trade (online) and then found a job in Switzerland in the pharmaceutical industry in a Marketing department. SUMMARY: If I'm not gonna follow The Original Dream I'd better make some good money! That's my new, capitalist, happy, promising point of view. Please don't give me the "always follow your dream" crap, nor the "pharma is evil and you're selling you soul" crap. I won't agree with you. I'm happy with this choice and I have not settled for any less that what I want. But what one wants changes over time. I also happen to love medical technology and science and I am determined to dedicate my life to it.

Anyhow...These two years in Berlin were very unlike the Berlin experience, but still important for me from an interests point of view. I worked part time for a year and a half for a social gaming 3D network where I discovered the extreme geekness of this world we live in. Also, discovered the fascinating universe of the tech startup world there.

I'm in Lausanne no working for a biotech startup and loving every minute of it (the work, not the city).

OUT-LOUD PRAYER: God All Mighty! No more "easygoing, openminded, liberal, into traveling and new experiences, feeling connected to every person, stone or vegetable on the planet, vegans for better energy flowing reasons, that can see your soul through your eyes in a glimpse cause they're special as a fucking snowflake, who lead simple lives focused on enjoying the little things to make the world a better place" profiles. Pleeeease make it stop! I don't want your frikin' free hugs!!!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To spread my wisdom and awesomeness, of course.

For real: it's a great platform to filter potential friends, both when travelling/hosting or when networking.

I've always said (not that I'm proud of it or nothing, it's just the way it is) that what I value the most in people is not their human quality, which is very important of course, but their intelligence or their talent (I guess a combination of both). Talent in anything. I admire so much talented people, no matter if the person is an artist, a business man or a hockey player. However, I've realised lately that talent is not as important as intelligence for me, and when I'm talking about intelligence I mean the same type of intelligence as one can have. For instance, I don't think I would have a great chemistry with a nuclear physician genius, just admiration, but I sure get along well with people who have great language skills, who've mastered its understanding and use, who can be funny or explain complex concepts with it, and this ability is usually related, somehow, with emotional intelligence and interest on people's ways of acting and reacting. Analytic people usually get the nuances in language and personalities all at once and tend to be good at both. Those are my favorite people which I want to get to know.

To summarize: I have a thing for standup comedians.

Interests

0- Cafeterias with WiFi.
1- Comedy: love stand-up, I also spend hours watching American/British talkshows (I had a lifetime a crush on both David Letterman and Craig Ferguson until they left CBS, #tragic, my new discovery is Graham Norton), politically incorrect jokes. -I can't help it. As soon as I moved to Berlin I couldn't stop making jew jokes, it's such a pleasure.
2- Cheese.
3- Bullfighting
3- Biology, medicine, medical technology.
4- Art: Movies, music, reading, writing, photography and other pretentious stuff.
5- Economic theory and Politics. I discovered how passionating they can be and my vision of how the world works has radically changed. I consider myself a classical liberal. Oh wait! What's that?!.... That's the sound of so many of you running away at this point!

Other secondary hobbies? sure:
6- Enjoying being outside (despite my total laziness). How? I'm not much of a sporty person but I used to like basketball and skiing and... SCUBA DIVING! Absolute passion. I obviously like traveling as well, like everybody else in here.
7- I'm totally and utterly a terrace bar person. This doesn't mean that I don't enjoy indoors, there are few better pleasures than fossilizing on the couch: Aside from shows/movies, I love watching the motorbikes at 6 am with some sleepy friends, sometimes football and Formula 1, or bullfighting corridas on TV.

Well well... I've told you about my "love for bullfighting" and "pro-capitalism" thingys, so there is only one thing left to confess: I'm attracted to the dwarf in Game of Thrones.

• arts
• writing
• books
• theater
• photography
• documentaries
• film making
• acting
• concerts
• flamenco
• cooking
• cheese
• running
• walking
• partying
• politics
• technology
• movies
• reading
• tv
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• scuba diving
• skiing
• basketball
• wrestling
• biology
• business
• mathematics
• medicine
• political science
• marketing
• startups
• biotechnology
• medtech

Music, Movies, and Books

Before getting into the "how clever we are" lists, this:
I'm in love with folklore in general and Spanish folklore in particular. I found it around my twenties and I decided to strengthen my roots: so....yes, I'm a total bullfighting lover all of a sudden. I can explain it to you (why I like it and what is it about). I respect and understand being against it, though, cause I thought like that once. I love flamenco and its environment, its attitude. I am the One and Only walking Spanish cliché!

Geez I know people care about this shit, that's why I'm writing it, but it's boring as fuck. You may skip it. Otherwise, there you go:

Movies... Filmmakers I like and that come to my mind now are in no specific order: Kubrick, Herzog, Truffaut, Bergman, Kaurismaki, Spielberg, Kusturica, Polanski, Rohmer, Wong kar Wai, Hitchcock, Kitano, Coppola, Kurosawa, Scorsese, Kieslowski, Zhang Yimou, Alan Parker, Woody Allen, Tarkovsky, Chaplin, Soderberg, Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Coen Brothers, Paul Verhoeven, Win Wenders, Terrence Malick, Billy Wilder.

I'm a total TV show addict, especially american ones. My favourite ones (which I consider as pieces of the best cinema that it's been done today): True Detective, Mad Men, Six Feet Under, Game of Thrones, Rome, The West Wing, The Sopranos, Scrubs, House MD, etc.

Books... Hmm... Faulkner, Carver, Chejov, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Vargas-Llosa, Hemmingway, Rilke, Antonio di Benedetto, Bruno Schulz, Robert Walser, Ursula Le Guin, Salinger, Proust, Bolaño, Kerouac, Pessoa, Camillieri, Italo Calvino, Baricco, Nemirovsky, Henry James, Joyce, Tobias Wolf, Nabokov, Pynchon, Tolstoi, Camus, Conrad, Capote, Boris Vian. I'm also interested non fiction, particularly history and economy.

Music... I don't give a fuck about electro. I don't despise it or anything, it can be cool, I just get distracted and start observing the random flight of an insect instead. I listen to a lot of classical. This could be too extensive so I'll summarize it in: medieval and renaissance music, Bach, some romanticism, and 20th century (Debussy, Stravinsky... not crazy crazy people making crazy crazy noises). Jazz in general although I haven't been listening much lately. I like classic jazz (Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli, and I'll go wherever there is a Big Band...), Chick Corea in all periods. I enjoy very much music experiments such as Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, latin jazz and latin music in general, specially Cuban (Compay Segundo, Omara Portuondo, Bebo Valdés...), bossa nova (Jobim is God to me, Joao Gilberto, Caetano Veloso...). Flamenco has stolen my heart (Paco de Lucía, Camarón, Miguel Poveda, Remedios Amaya, Enrique Morente, Manolo Caracol, la Paquera, Lole Montoya, Argentina, etc.), I like tango, bolero, and the Spanish copla and cuplés and its' esthetics. I like blues very much but I don't know that much about it. Apart from that I listen every once in a while to some of the 70s rock (Bowie, The Who, Jefferson Airplane...) and old pop-soul such as Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summers, and all those fucking great voices. I adore crooners too! (Sinatra, Barry White...)

Oh! I almost forgot: I love Nick Drake, worship Tom Waits and wanna marry Michael Bublé!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Shout like a madwoman at a wrestling combat.

Sneak in a school of barracudas, nearly 300 of them, and swim among them.

Jumped in a taxi in Ecuador in a tiny road with a cliff and say "follow that bus!" - it left with all my stuff inside!

Had the opportunity to hear the best jazz musicians of the world at my home (a student residence theather) for free and in my pijamas. When I was not in my pijamas, I was normally working with them as their light technician.

Teach, Learn, Share

Listen, I've got something to teach you right now:

- The characteristic smell of the earth after the rain is called "petricor" and it's due to the secretion of a substance called "geosmine" caused by bacteria Streptomyces.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Philippines, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ecuador, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland

• 

•