CURRENT MISSION

To never forget Blake´s words: "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings"

ABOUT ME

Probably the last person to know how he or she is for the rest is oneself, therefore I honestly feel unable to fill this description. It's up to you to find out!

PHILOSOPHY

As you set out for Ithaka
hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope the voyage is a long one.
May there be many a summer morning when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you come into harbors seen for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind—
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.

Konstantinos Kavafis

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfing couches, meeting surfers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Several trips, several meetings in unknown cities

Interests

I'm mostly interested in music, programming and literature.

• books
• literature
• music
• computers
• synthesizers
• artificial intelligence
• computer programming

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: "Pi, faith in chaos" "The elephant man", "Diarios de motocicleta" the films by Kusturica, Hitchkock, Polanski, Tarkovsky, Einsenstein, Hertzog...

Music: Contrapuntal early music, "Classical music" in general (with special pluses for Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Stockhausen, Schnittke, Grisey and M. Gordon) Film music, and the likes of Amon Tobin, Aphex Twin and Autechre

Books: The works by Kipling, Borges, Cavafis, Chesterton, Blake, Dostoievsky, Chejov, Poe, Juarroz, Bolaño, Baudelaire, Schopenhauer, Asimov, Blackwood, Hawthorne, Bierce, Tolkien...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once I felt I gained true freedom. Such feeling only comes far away from home, with nothing to loose on your pockets and no worries to populate your mind.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you about music, books and spanish.I want to learn anything that you have to teach me.I would like to share with you a portion of this frugal time we have on earth.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ecuador, Netherlands

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