Why I’m on Couchsurfing

to feel the difference in traveling

Interests

high grass, maps, sudden wind, scent of juniper, waking up early, perspectives in nature and stories, freshness, alleys of plane trees, gregorian chant, tintinnabuli, fresh bread, figs, celesta sounds, lavender, churches built in the mountains, everything that can fly, paths, textures, spinning yarn, scent of the air before thunder, running, 5 am light, talking in trains, noticing details, handwriting, phenomenology, myths, structures, long and quiet hands, mandalas, postcards in books, speaking other languages, unbroken flowers, short haircuts, puzzles, voices of the Carpathian women, narratives, harmonica, uncle Sam’s stories about whales, café Moby Dick, book stores, metalanguage, freedom in thinking and acting, flag of Alaska, anthem of Iceland, randomness, poetry, going on foot, rhythms, listening

• books
• acting
• cartography
• languages
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

books : dostoyevsky, gide, camus, bernanos, beckett, jean genet
films: tarkovsky, antonioni, kurosawa, zhang yimou, vittorio de sica
music: yo la tengo, king crimson, nina simone, the doors, radiohead, nancy sinatra, sigur ros, mum, the animals, david bowie, CAN, portico, portishead, the zombies, the kinks, velvet underground, johnny cash, helios, foreign fields, arcade fire, efterklang, yael naim, alice phoebe lou, elsiane, aphex twin, coral sea, son lux, james blake, ibeyi, samaris, chet baker, the mamas&papas, herbie hancock, apparat, archive, devendra banhart, regina spektor, massive attack, arvo part, jean sibelius, bach, rachmaninoff, interpol, white lies, tame impala, miles davis, olafur arnalds etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

crossed the ocean in the transatlantic tunnel

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Ukraine