I've just read the last edition of my profile text which was about one year old. Gee things change quickly! I remember radically editing my profile for several times with the same kind of feelings as now, it mostly happens once in one-two years. So what's left, as something constant? Well, I do like to talk. All these things about society, and psychology, and how the universe is to be explained, as well as the next best location for a hipster-bio-fairtrade breakfast or specialty coffee. I cherish a pretence to possess some education and a couple of ideas. I prefer to see myself as a non-conformist, but I am old enough to still manage to stay nice, respectful and friendly to anyone. I don't identify myself with any given national tradition, although I think Germany is pretty much the place which suits me the best as a place where I'll always be coming back. My identity is best characterized through my two favourite cities: St. Petersburg, where I was born and grew up till the age of 22, and Hamburg, where I will be leaving one day.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like the idea of sharing more than that of selling and buying, though the latter is just too convenient for the most of us.

NO HOOK UP COUCH SURFING.

Interests

Musik regardless of style. I've grown up mostly listening to rock and it remains my favourite. I've been dancing dance salsa, bachata, kizomba, contemporary, hip hop for about three years now. I like literature, in the first place 20th-21st c., and I really enjoy languages. I'm interested in yoga and art. I sometimes draw or paint. I enjoy films, and fford me some art house issues. I am really into bio and fairtrade.

RED things and feelings.

Music, Movies, and Books

Led Zeppelin, Kasabian, Placebo, System of a Down, Björk, Muse, Portishead, Moby, Catapilla, De Staat, Interpol, Noir Désir, The Mars Volta, Tool, Break of Reality, The Doors. Zemfira, who you probably don't know, as she is Russian. Lenigrad, also Russian, punk-ska stuff. All kinds of jazz, blues, techno, house, funk, "salsa"-music, especially guaguanco, guajira and bolero. I like classics as well, but I need the right mood for that. I am not an ultimative specialist in hip hop or R'n'B, but I really enjoy it, especially when dancing to it.

Only Lovers Left Alive (Jarmusch), L'Amour (Haneke), Andrey Rublev (Tarkovsky), Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino), Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (Thomas Jahn), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Coen brothers), Arizona Dream, Black Cat, White Cat (Kusturica)

All possible stuff by Robert Sapolsky, a neurologist, endocrinologist, biologian and psychology specialist, who's the best of the living to explain you how a human being functions and whose charisma would allow him to be a successfull stand-up comedian.

Steppenwolf, Siddhartha (Hesse), Zauberberg (Mann), The Idiot (Dostoevsky), The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner), The Magus (Fowles), Il pendolo di Foucault (Eco), Moscow to the End of the Line (Erofeev), Invitation to a Beheading (Nabokov), Chapayev and The Void (Pelevin)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Doing some para-sailing above the Black Sea.

Teach, Learn, Share

Some respect and attention is the best thing we can share, learn from each other and teach each other. Like, peace, people, all that stuff. ;)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Some well reflected personal experience, good mood and buddhist everyday stance. :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Russian Federation