CURRENT MISSION

Enable better lives

ABOUT ME

I drank a 1994 Quinta do Vesuvio Vintage Port; jumped off a plane flying at 18,000 feet; wrote a MA thesis on Nietzsche’s metaphysics and took the next plane to a Scandinavian country to surprise a woman I fell in love over the Internet...not necessarily in that order.
I think with my feelings and feel with my thoughts. I’ve visited Dali’s tomb and love like Caravaggio painted - chiaroscuro.

PHILOSOPHY

That will take some time to explain. But you can start here: http://alexandros.is

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I offer my couch...? :)

Interests

I'm interested in everything about something (Philosophy) and something about everything.

• arts
• flying
• blogging
• guitar

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:

A concise list of favourites:
Most works by Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer.
The works of the French moralists: Chamfort, La Rochefoucauld, Vauvenargues, La Bruyere.
Some works by Cornelius Castoriadis
Certain poems (and thoughts) by Fernando Pessoa, Pablo Neruda, e.e. cummings, Odysseus Elytis, Constantine Cavafy, George Seferis, Andreas Empeirikos, Nikos Gatsos, Anne Sexton, William Blake, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Cesare Pavese, Walt Whitman, "A Lover's Discourse" by Roland Barthes, "To Have or to Be","The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness" and "Man for Himself" by Erich Fromm, "The Colossus of Maroussi" by Henry Miller, "Conjectures and Refutations" by Karl Popper, "The Greeks" by Kitto, "The Man Without Qualities" by Robert Musil, The Correspondence between Goethe and Schiller, "Conversations with Goethe" by Johann Peter Eckermann, "Basic Writings" by Paul Ree, some works by Plato, "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ken Wilber's "A Brief History of Everything".
The Essays of Montaigne, the advice given by Baltasar Gracian, Machiavelli and Guicciardini.
The wit of Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, Giacomo Leopardi, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Lec, Lichtenberg, Karl Kraus.
and on a more contemporary note, a most delightful book by Tom Hodgkinson entitled "How to be Idle".

Music:

I usually like individual songs/pieces rather than singers/composers/bands. I've realized that there are two common elements that run through most of the music I like. The first is the ability of certain pieces of music to put you in some mood...the song Sex(I'm A) by Lovage is an obvious example...others are Inertia Creeps, Anti-star, Unfinished Sympathy, and Angel by Massive Attack; Clubbed To Death (Kurayamino Mix) and Dragula (Hot Rod Herman Remix) from the Matrix Soundtrack; Alice by Tom Waits; a number of songs by Moby and so on. The other element is when you can tell a piece of music comes from the heart, when the perfomer or composer has left a part of his/her soul in the music - and you can feel that. A striking example of that is Jacques Brel's Ne me quitte pas or Martha Wainwright's You Bloody Motherfucking Asshole. Others include: Damien Rice's The Professor &; La fille Danse, Volcano(Demo version), Cheer's Darlin' and I Remember. A more extensive list of musical pieces which combine either one or both of the above elements: Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto's 2&;3. Chopin - Prelude in E minor. Schoenberg, Transfigured Night (Verklarte Nacht). Domeniconi - Koyunbaba suite op.19. Roland Dyens - Libra Sonatina Fuoco. Paco de Lucia, McLaughlin, di Meola - Mediterranean Sundance. Nick Cave - Into my arms. Leonard Cohen - By the River's dark, Joan of Arc, Famous Blue Raincoat. Lou Reed - What a perfect day. Anthony and the Johnson's - All the album: I am a bird now. Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers, Sometimes I feel like screaming. Pink Floyd - The Wall album. Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah. Tori Amos - Siren. Lucio Dalla - Caruso. Papazoglou - Augoustos. Goran Bregovic - Ederlezi. Dead Can Dance - Yulunga. Hans Zimmer - Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Green Card. The Soundtrack of the film Vengo. Joni Mitchell - California. Joe Satriani - Midnight. Jimmy Hendrix - Voodoo Child. Lynard Skynard - That Smell. Rory Gallagher - A Million Miles away, Moonchild. Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing, Telegraph Road. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road. Nina Simone - Feeling Good, Don't Explain. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit. Keith Jarrett - Sun Bear Concerts, 3rd Encore. Peter Gabriel - Last Temptation Soundtrack, The feeling begins. Ezio Bossio - I'm not Scared Soundtrack, Dei pensieri. India Arie - I am Ready for Love. Sarah McLachlan - Adia, Do What You Have to Do. Dido - Here With Me. Mariah Carey - My All. Melissa Auf der Maur - Taste me, Followed the Waves. Psarantonis - Albums Nogw, Ideon Andro, Rizitika. Hainides - tou paraponematou, Anatoli. Theodorakis/Parios - Drapetsona, Nychta mesa sta matia sou, Dromoi Palioi. George Dalaras - Ta veggalika sou matia, Ase me pali na sou po. Maxairitsas/Stokas - Ekei sto Noto. Pyx-Lax - Ti einai ayto pou mas enonei. Johnny Cash - Hurt. and much more from Fado, Tango, Flamenco, Jazz, even some Metal and Hip-hop (but not too much ;).

Movies:
In no preferential order:
The Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
The Legends of the Fall
Le Grand Bleu
Le Peuple Migrateur
Dracula (Coppola)
Apocalypse Now (Redux)
Amelie
The Blair Witch Project
Das Experiment
Don't Look Now
Run Lola, Run
Sex and Lucia
Dangerous Liaisons
The City of Hope
Cinema Paradiso
Shine
Il Postino
Garden State
Saw
Old Boy
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Ran
Zorba the Greek
3-Iron

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Well, I did this: http://anametheus.tumblr.com/post/798821037/experiential-art

Teach, Learn, Share

Philosophy, some guitar.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Monaco, Nepal, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Greece, United Kingdom, United States

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