CURRENT MISSION
No time for slipping

ABOUT ME

I´m often busy with many different overlapping projects... It might be something related to my art studies, enthuasiasm for hunting vinyl records, skateboarding, zines or other random projects. I also like traveling and cooking alot.

PHILOSOPHY

"We are all instruments. We are all meant to play our part in the vast Arkestry of the cosmos." -Sun Ra

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfing, hosting

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I haven´t had a couchsurfing-profile until June 2013. My own ''couchsurfing'' experience is more like sleeping countless times on my friends couches in different places, usually on countless skateboarding related road trips across finland.

Interests

- Zines
- Human Rights & feminism
- Contemporary Art
- Performance art
- Outsider Art
- Skateboarding (and especially mid-90´s skatefilms & aesthetics)
- Cinema (My favourite directors are Aki Kaurismäki & Jim Jarmusch)
- Film Festivals
- Cooking (my diet is somewhat vegetarian, but i eat fish,eggs and use dairy products)
- Collecting Vinyl Records and DJing

• arts
• performing arts
• contemporary art
• festivals
• film festivals
• human rights
• womens rights
• cooking
• vegetarian
• dieting
• movies
• traveling
• fishing
• hunting
• surfing
• skateboarding
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

Something I listen to:
- Sun Ra, Moondog, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders etc. good jazz
- Velvet Underground
- Northern Soul, and hearteaching deep soul with heavy drums
- The Soul Investigators
- Mulatu Astatke (and other ethio-jazz greats)
- Mdou Moctar, Amanar & other Sahel Sounds -recordlabel´s stuff
- AwesomeTapesFromAfrica.com
- The Rail Band
- Fonal records stuff
- Hugh Mundell etc roots reggae (also ruff mega rare 80´s digikillers are good)
- Space Lady
- Black Sabbath (the 5 first albums especially)
- Minimal Wave (DEUX!)
- Swedish Progg, Anatolian Rock, Estonian Folk, Cambodian oldies etc. interesting ''outernational'' sounds

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I met Mahmoud Ahmed, the legendary ethiopian singer in Addis Ababa June 2012.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to skateboard.
I can teach you how to cook some basic finnish foods.
I can teach you how to play ticket to ride-boardgame...

Countries I’ve Visited

Benin, Burkina Faso, China, Djibouti, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Mali, Mongolia, Norway, Portugal, Russian Federation, Saint Lucia, Senegal, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ethiopia, Finland, Iceland