CURRENT MISSION

Wandering breathlessly taking it all in

ABOUT ME

Student of it all, 39yrs. Spend the last years in Sweden, five years in Beijing before that, used to be Dutch but quit that habit(us)... Nice guy according to some of my friends.. Mostly go around second-hand bookstores and odd coffee-places and meet weird people and enjoy the serendipity and the beauty of it all. Right now live is ..not boring as I’m trying to survive Scandinavian winter on a small sailboat :-) Welcome over if I´ve the "couch" available

PHILOSOPHY

Para mí sólo recorrer los caminos que tienen corazón, cualquier camino que tenga corazón. Por ahí yo recorro, y la única prueba que vale es atravesar todo su largo. Y por ahí yo recorro mirando, mirando, sin aliento.

For me there is only traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart.
There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length.
And there I travel looking, looking, breathlessly.

Stolen from H who spoke it well, but I lived it well since 15.

It´s a long time since I´ve stood up on the stage, it´s about 14 or 15 years. I was 60 years old at the time, just a kid with a crazy dream. Since then I´ve taken a lot of Prozac, Paxil, Welbutrin, Effexor, Ritalin, Focalin. I also turned to a rigorous and profound study of the religions and the philosophies, but cheerfulness kept breaking through.

-Leonard Cohen

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Minus a three year break I met the best ppl here, so just more'ayah please!!!!! If yr just looking to hook up, try elsewhere but if you've got stories, need a clean bed and/or don't mind hanging out with me and my weirdly beautiful group of friends then yr welcome anytime; I swear we'll come up with some epic project that'll probably involve climbing something ;)

Interests

Anthropology, psychology and especially theories around psychologic integration, resistance studies, performance art, Middle-East, politics, languages, art, sex, beauty, LITERATURE!! Good books and amazing music. Drinks with friends, traveling, metaphysics ad infinitum.

• arts
• writing
• books
• literature
• beauty
• dancing
• coffee
• running
• drinking
• boating
• politics
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• hiking
• surfing
• anthropology
• languages
• psychology
• religion
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Makine, Marina Abramovic, Stein, Hesse, Bukowski, Miller, Dostoyevsky, Van Gogh, Buber, Borges, Tranströmer, Mayakovskij, Casteneda, Borderwijk, Sartre, Hemingway, Norén, Ma Jian..so much more

Music: Right now Suunto, quite a lot of raves, Deep South, Jaar, Fat Freddy's drop, Gramatik, Ibrahim Maalouf, Oren Lavie, Feist, Joseph Arthur, Rising Appalachia, Joe Pug and Roo Panes but always Vit Päls, Frusciante, Henrix, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Dan Viktor, Tom Waits, Dylan, Nick Cave, Billie Holiday, Velvet Underground, Janis Joplin, Joseph Arthur, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Telemann, Libertines, Lauryn Hill, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, The Cure, Nouvelle Vague, Ray Charles, Joe Pug, Foo Fighters, Doors, Flogging Molly, Taj Mahal, The Kills, Muddy Waters, Doors, Seu Jorges, Kate Bush, Billie Holiday, Babyshambles/Libertines Simon & Garfunkel, Noir Desir, Thåström, Krunegård, Anttila, The XX, Suzanne Vega, Robert Johnson, Suede, Vreeswijk, The Solution, Winnerbäck, Nirvana, Lykke Li, System of a down, Joni Mitchell, Regina Spector, The Vaselines, Dan Viktor, Dropkick Murphys, Howlin´Wolf, Beck,The Streets, Sage Francis, PJ Harvey and so, soo much more!

Movies: Anything by Kieslovskij, Tarkovskij, Del Toro Gomez, Bergman, Almadovar, Von Trier and Roy Anderson

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Traveled since I was 15 and haven´t really stopped after that. All the small things and all the great tastes and the quiet dancing in the street at 3 am to a song or a gust of wind..memory of an amazing book. all that jazz

Surfing in Bali,Running the bulls in Pamplona when 15 years old, hitch-hiking the West Bank during the 2nd intifada, living in Nepal during the revolution, teaching in China´s first artist colony the year it started, working as a Jackeroo and riding in the Augathella 1999 Rodeo, being madly in love. Sharing coffee and falling in love at Hugo's, helping giving birth to my two daughters, every conversation with them since.. a night around a fire... getting deported.... such a life ;)

Teach, Learn, Share

It's in the eyes. Don´t know anything at all at the moment but it is all in the eyes.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Meet my friends and be a local ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, China, Israel, Nepal, Netherlands, Palestine, Sweden

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