CURRENT MISSION

I'm in pursuit of fulfillment. If posible, thru happiness. Always runnig always from mediocrity!

ABOUT ME

Architect. Photographer. Designer. Artist. Cinephile. Audiophile. Bibliophile. Curious. Avid. Intense.

And to clarify my "mission", let me quote Hermann Hesse:

There is much to be said for contentment and painlessness, for these bearable and submissive days, on
which neither pain nor pleasure is audible, but pass by whispering and on tip-toe. But the worst of it is
that it is just this contentment that I cannot endure. After a short time it fills me with irrepressible hatred
and nausea. In desperation I have to escape and throw myself on the road to pleasure, or, if that cannot
be, on the road to pain. When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the
lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I
smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would
rather feel the very devil burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. A wild longing for strong
emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a
mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages,
to pull off the wigs of a few revered idols, to provide a few rebellious schoolboys with the longed-for
ticket to Hamburg, or to stand one or two representatives of the established order on their heads. For
what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and
comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of
mediocrity.

PHILOSOPHY

Memento mori

Est unus modus verus

Le temps détruit tout

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Since I was a young boy me and my family have hosted several people, thru student exchange programs, or just friends and tourists. Some stayed long periods,some just a few days. The Sievert Abi-Zaid family is very friendly to foreigners and we all like to host and to be hosted in our trips abroad.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm a great host and a bad surfer. I've hosted around 80 persons up to today, but never surfed thru CS. Shame on me!

Interests

Arquitecture, Music, Cinema, Literature, Photography, Design, Graphic Arts, Dance. Enough?

• arts
• literature
• architecture
• design
• photography
• dancing
• partying
• movies
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Infectious Grooves, Elbow, Dave Matthews Band, AC/DC, Jorge Ben, Seu Jorge, Hermeto Pascoal, Gilberto Gil, Funk Como Le Gusta, Cordel do Fogo Encantado, Almir Sater, Terence Blanchard, Ndr Big Band, Miles Davis, Hiromi Uehara, Beethoven, Mozart, Grieg, Sibelius, Phillip Glass, Charles Mingus...

Cinema: The Shining, Apocalypse Now, Joyeux Noel, Delicatessen, 37°2 le matin, The Big Lebowski, Prospero's Books, Thomas Crown, The Sheltering Sky, Naqoyqatsi, Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Stalker, The 25th Hour...

Books: Thomas Mann, Jorge Luis Borges, José Saramago, Jared Diamond, Noah Gordon...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The sun rising on the Galapago's Islands.

The Lincoln Center Dance Tribute to Jerome Robbins

The street party at Rio de Janeiro, when Brasil won the Fifa world cup, 1994.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach some cooking, some stencil techniques, and some other tricks I gathered thru life!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Thoughts, mattresses, kitchen utensils, time. Would this be enough? Could this be too much?

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil

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