CURRENT MISSION

I guess my current mission is like Bill Murray once said to be more present with others, to be really there feeling with other people, really conected to them and to myself, feeling life flowing freely into a smile. I thinks that's the top aim.

ABOUT ME

I started studying economics but left after the first year to work in Panama. Then I returned to Spain to study journalism. In between I went to Africa in a van and spent one year in Australia. But if I go back it all feels far, very far away in time. For the last years I've been working in different things but my main project has been Momento Verso, a street-poetry performance were I write poetry on demand on a typewriter in public spaces. People pass by and suggest a topic or a word, then I typewrite an spontaneous, improvised poem which they take with them in exchange of some moeny. It's really amazing, so much fun, so intense, so vivid.

I think that the perspective we have about ourselves is so biased by our desires and expectations that feels naive to describe ourselves. But Its good to be naive from time to time so I'll say that I'm a tall dreamer, a crazy writer and a music student (right now I'm freaked learning the jew's harp and percussion). Love to know why but the best comes when I just let go.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm currently traveling a lot and my theory is that if we met at a cafe or in a museum or randomly through the weirdest of experiences we probably end up sharing stories and stuff. And if you said hey, I don't have a place to crash tonight I'd said, come to mine or viceversa. So I think couchsurfing is a great tool to catalyze connectivity among people. Moreover I think it is a revolutionary antistablishment weapon to overthrow the imperant status-quo. Lol-

Interests

good conversation, getting lost, living in translation, inspire and being inspired (that really pumps me up), a strong sea with big waves, talking about literature and dreams, laughing a lot, laughing untill I cry like a stupid child, meditation, playing the jew's harp, swimming, surfing, football, writing, writing, performance, random stuff, slack line, walking in circles...

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• performing arts
• documentaries
• surfing
• swimming
• mountains
• permaculture
• sleeping
• thinking
• walking around
• avocados
• breathing
• handstands
• ecobuilding
• drinking water
• looking at mountains
• not socializing
• building pyramids
• not getting verified
• fiction-non-fiction
• mute conversations
• chinese crab racing
• walking tortoises

Music, Movies, and Books

Documentariessssss
One Film: Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
One book: Psicomagia (A. Jodorowsky)
One fiction book: Many, many, many Cortazar, DeLillo, Zadie Smith, Foster Wallace, Cormac McCarthy
Music: Soul, Funky, Reggae, Rock, Trance, Klang, Garage, Flamenco, Roots,
Groups: Junip, Alt-J, Moriarty, The Growlers
One musician: JJ Cale.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

This is a short story about an awesome hitchhiking trip I did in Oz:

The highway is a massive and intimidating foreigner, a funnel of decisions and purposes traveling fast from one point to another and cars pass by. Time unfolds like an elusive ghost too tired of being alone but too shy to say hello and cars pass by. Honestly, all this is very poetic but I’d rather be picked up by somebody before I start thinking of myself as one of those no-footprint wanderers lost on asphalt phrases. Yeah, I’m definitely waiting for someone. It might even be me.

I raise my thumb happy to bum some romanticism. I’m sure someone will show up, maybe altruism or a leftie driver or someone who has done it himself before. Besides, drivers want a decent chat. They are always eager to hear prophet stories and even better to tell you theirs. They might brag skin-deep or immerse into honest conversation, under the shelter of the stranger, confident confessions off the record.

But for now cars pass by. I guess people are busy with their stuff. I am too, I’m trying to get a lift. Maybe If I start thinking I don’t want to be picked up, somebody won’t resist to pull over. I might just shut off all this noise and enjoy uncertainty.

The bush spies on me with the patience of an elder, birds talk in their own language and clouds move fast as if they were racing but they look so soft that any kind of competition appears unreal. My backpack rests on the shoulder. No keys but a smartphone. Millennial adventure is not what it used to be when you share the picture of a funny parrot on instagram.

Finally.

Hi, she smiles. Where are you going? I’m going to Sydney, I say. Jump in, I’m heading to Kempsey. How come you ended up here? Well…

Six more rides followed until I reached Newcastle station late in the afternoon. I heard about Rhodesia, about miracles, about Kirk Douglas, about money, about value, about marriage, about values, about sex and about sex again. A woman driving a V6 couldn’t help overtaking and ranting like a madman. A giggly old fellow confessed he just cheated on his wife while a lonely man was looking for a partner. Been stuck in the mud for hours? SUV’s with 600,000 ks work fine. Have kids. A new SUV is quite expensive. Don’t waste your time traveling.

I told them about Spain, about woofing, about Woodford, about the sun tanning just my hitching arm, about being yelled ‘get a job!’, about the guy who picked me up before, about hitchhiking.

Teach, Learn, Share

We are mirrors to others, others are mirrors to ourselves. It's not that human beings are social animals, it's that we learn through others. And I love that process... so yeah, lets teach-learn and share.

I can teach how to play jew's harp, how to write poetry on a typewriter and how to cook a couple of yummy spanish dishes.

What I Can Share with Hosts

A bottle of wine and a dinner is mandatory. ;)

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Spain