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Overview

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  • Fluent in Russian; learning English
  • 30, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • Man of Arts
  • MSU student
  • From Moscow
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Jamming with some great musicians all over the world.

ABOUT ME

I'm currently studying at the faculity of mathematics and mechanics of MSU. Quite a boring place to stay:) However Integral equations really do broaden my general thinking and it was my decision to study there after all.

Still, my soul belongs to music=) So, at the moment I'm taking part in two bands. And It feels like I'm one step closer to finding my way.

PHILOSOPHY

If you want to change the world, change yourself first - that's something that came in my mind at the first place. All you need is love - I guess that would be the second one. However, at most philosophical questions I have a buddist point of view.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I haven't tried it out yet, but I really hope to visit Europe (preferably Austria, Bohemia or England) during this (2014) spring and summer.

Interests

Besides great music, films and books?) Well, there are lots of them, I sometimes enjoy cooking, I really like to drink tea and create some handcrafted things. For some reason I find teaching to be a very satisfying occupation. I teached English, guitar, math. Not only teaching by the way. Basically any work that involves sharing your knowledges with others is great for me "Doing nothing and enjoying myself" is also one of my interests. Basically, I just really like to expand my mind.

  • movies
  • music
  • guitar
  • mathematics

Music, Movies, and Books

Personally I do believe that most of great works of art was created during the 60es and 70es(especially when you are talking about music). I wouldn't say that there is no more good music of movies nowadays, but it's really hard to find among all that commercialised crap. And, umh, I don't see any point in listing specific artists of authors. But for those who really want to know:

Music: Frank Zappa, Deep Purple, Babe Ruth, Canned Heat, The Doors, The Beatles, The Kinks, H.P.Lovecraft, (Yes, it's also a great band, not only a writer) Slade, Led Zeppelin, Blue Sheer, Jeff Beck (!), Ten Years After (another "!"), Janis Joplin (she is awesome too, but I'd better stop flooding with exclamation marks),
Vanilla Fudge, Pink Floyd, Funkadelic, Boxer, The Cream, The Velvet Underground, The Moody Blues, Nina Hagen, King Crimson (!!!), Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath (!!!!!). Well, really lots of them, I could count forever

Books: Erich Fromm, George Orwell, Erich Maria Remarque, Vladimir Nabokov (genius), Oscar Wilde, Ken Kesey, Julio Cortázar, John Fowles,Gabriel García Márquez, Robert Pirsig, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Golding, Stephen Fry, Aldous Huxley

In no particular order, just some bands and names that appered in my head at first place

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