My name is Art Balenok. Couchsurfing is using my Facebook alias here.
I am a friendly, open-minded and respectful guy ready to share a bunch of cool stories and delicious beers with nice people.
I love a good and deep joke :)
My sense of humor is quite particular (Catch-22, anyone?), yet people like it :)
Music and creativity mean everything to me.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Hotels don't have a human touch, while each new person is a whole new world.
Stayed in too many hotels, it's time to get closer to the real people of the real towns and cities.

Interests

Music, books, travelling, NHL, Formula 1, new kinds of beer, space exploration, driving, making music

• books
• tattoos
• concerts
• music festivals
• beer
• flying
• traveling
• music
• electronic music
• metal music
• freedom
• universe
• the universe
• happiness
• making music
• equality
• ice hockey
• formula 1
• open mind
• nhl
• gender equality
• metallica

Music, Movies, and Books

Metallica, Depeche Mode, Slayer, Rammstein, Parov Stelar, Paradise Lost.
The Godfather, Forrest Gump, Crash, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
Master and Margarita, Catch-22, The Russian Romance.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Completely changed my life. Well, almost completely.

Teach, Learn, Share

I cook a phenomenal steak. Guaranteed.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Lots of good stories about other countries and people, my knowledge of good beer and music, as well as working as a sports broadcaster on TV :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Monaco, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belarus, Ireland, United States