CURRENT MISSION

to keep running and laughing at the same time

ABOUT ME

"If you believe in anything very strongly - including yourself - and if you go after that thing alone, you end up in jail, in heaven, in the headlines, or in the largest house in the block, according to what you started after. If you don`t believe in anything very strongly - including yourself - you go along, and enough money is made out of you to buy an automobile for some other fellow`s son, and you marry if you`ve got time, and if you do you have a lot of children, whether you have time or not, and finally you get tired and you die."

PHILOSOPHY

"If you believe in anything very strongly - including yourself - and if you go after that thing alone, you end up in jail, in heaven, in the headlines, or in the largest house in the block, according to what you started after. If you don`t believe in anything very strongly - including yourself - you go along, and enough money is made out of you to buy an automobile for some other fellow`s son, and you marry if you`ve got time, and if you do you have a lot of children, whether you have time or not, and finally you get tired and you die."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hosted a couple of people, stayed at some CS's houses and went to quite a few CS events..

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far all my experiences with CS were amazing. I am really looking forward to meeting more great people here!

Interests

poetry, nouvelle vague, indie music, psychology, history of fashion, independent movies, symbolism, vienna secession, surrealism, design
visiting new places
meeting new people

• poetry
• design
• fashion
• cooking
• wine
• running
• movies
• traveling
• music
• history
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

music - the arcade fire, xiu xiu, yeah yeah yeahs, hole, metric, belle & sebastian, the lovely feathers, casiotone for the painfully alone, interpol, the strokes, the national, bright eyes, yesayer, passion pit, mgmt, !!!, the presets, moldy peaches, the faint, postal service, fisherspooner, beirut

movies - "bande a part", "marie antoinette", "the dreamers", "ultimo tango a parigi/last tango in paris", "le fabuleux destin d`amelie poulain", "la science des reves", "ghost world", "a bout du souffle", "fight club", "art school confidential", "the virgin suicides", "american beauty", "my own private idaho", "splendor", "buffalo 66", "mysterious skin", "paris je t`aime", "les chansons d`amour", "hedwig and the angry inch", "the brick", "prozac nation"

books - jean cocteau, sartre, anais nin, adam thirlwell, christofer isherwood, lawrence, henry miller, nabokov, dostoevsky, marquez, fitzgerald, oscar wilde, virginia woolf, aldous huxsley, palahniuk, donleavy, julio cortazar, jeffrey eugenides, nick hornby, iain banks, foer.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watching a sunrise on the roof of a 20 storey building
Travelling through Vietnam
Moving to live to the Netherlands

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm trying to improve my Dutch and any help with that would be greatly appreciated. In exchange I can teach you some Russian. Or cook something nice for you :)

Would also love to learn more about wine, jewelry making and travelling the world of course.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Monaco, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, Russian Federation

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