I'm 34, living in Cuernavaca Mexico, musician and visual anthropologist/documentary filmmaker, love to cook, travel etc etc.

Tengo 34, vivo en Cuernavaca Mexico, músico, antropólogo visual/cineasta de documentales, amante de viajar, cocinar etc.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet local people, to learn, to have fun, and cut to the chase.....

Para conocerme a gente local, aprender, pasarlo bien, y ir al grano....

Interests

• wildlife
• photography
• documentaries
• live music
• anthropology
• cinema
• ancient history
• ruins
• food and drinks
• humanitarianism

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Fela Kuti! African music, latino music especially tropicalia and cumbia, 90s hip-hop, post-rock, plus Joanna Newsom, Sufjan Stevens, David Bowie, Neil Young and the Smiths

Film: cualquiera cosa surrealista, oscura, auteur, vieja y clásica o nueva y extraña, Mira Nair, Werner Herzog, David Lynch, Ken Loach, Lanthimos, Kurosawa, Wenders, Koreeda, Kar-wai, Chris Marker...

Books: también el surrealismo o existentialismo, el mejor es Maldoror, también The Bell Jar, Under the Volcano, The Picture of Dorian Gray...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Set fire to my leg in Benin on New Year's Eve
Toured south Vietnam in a jazz trio
Filmed inside a Mexican prison

Encendí mi pierna en Benin, la víspera del Año Nuevo
Tur del sur de Vietnam en un trio de jazz
Filmé dentro de una cárcel mexicana

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: English, drums
Learn: metaphysics, dance cumbia or salsa
Share: stories, tobacco

Enseñar: inglés, la batería
Aprender: la metafísica, bailar la cumbia o la salsa
Compartir: historias, tabaco

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, United Kingdom