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Overview

  • 14 references 12 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish; learning French, Indonesian, Italian
  • 45, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • journalist
  • BA journalism, MA communication science, MA diplomacy an...
  • From vilnius, lithuania
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

travelling and writing

ABOUT ME

I love big cities and write about them. I lived in Rome, Madrid, New York, Bali and Delhi. I also published a book about my hometown Vilnius.

I observe people and look for details in every city.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I found very good friends thanks to CS.

Interests

Movies/ music/ books/ photography/ theater/ art galleries/ languages/ cooking/ cars/ plain spotting/

  • arts
  • writing
  • books
  • theater
  • photography
  • cooking
  • movies
  • traveling
  • cars
  • music
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:

M83
Cut Copy
Arcade Fire
The arctic Monkeys
Architecture in Helsinky
Ben Folds
Datarock
Dead Cab for Cutie
Devendra Banhart
Editors
El Perro Del Mar
Electric President
Florence+The Machine
Future Islands
Kongs of Convenience
Kings of Leon
Lamb
MIA
The Naked&Famous
Postal Service
Snow Patrol
Stars
Streets
Radio Department
The Antlers
Sigur Ros
Air
Empire of the Sun
Feist
The Knife
Lali Puna
Au Revoire Simone
Air France
Kleerup
Plastic Operator
Mark Ronson
Temper Trap
MGMT
The XX
Phoenix
Roisin Murphy
Shout Out Louds
Vampire Weekend
Nouvelle Vague
Weeknd
Sambassadeur
James
Coldplay
Wild Beast
She and Him
KeyMono
Yeasayer

Movies:

Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
Double indemnity - Billy Wilder
The Lost Weekend - Billy Wilder
Sunset Boulevard - Billy Wilder
El - Luis Bunuel
12 angry men - Sidney Lumet
Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard
La Dolce Vita - Fellini
Viridiana - Luis Bunuel
El angel Exterminador - Luis Bunuel
Vivre Sa Vie - Jean-Luc Godard
Repulsion - Roman Polanski
Blow-up - Michelangelo Antonioni
The Graduate - Mike Nichols
Rosemarys Baby - Roman Polanski
El topo - Alejandro Jodorovsky
Husbands - John Cassavetes
Klute - Alan Pakula
The panic in Needle Park - Jerry Schatzberg
The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola
Mean Streets - Martin Scorsese
Serpico - Sidney Lumet
The Holy Mountain - Alejandro Jodorovsky
Fear Eats the Soul - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Phantom of Liberty - Luis Bunuel
The Night Porter
Dog Day Afternoon - Sidney Lumet
The passenger - Michelangelo Antonioni
Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese
The Tenant - Roman Polanski
That obscure object of Desire - Luis Bunuel
The Shining - Stanley Kubrick
Blue Velvet - David Lynch
My Dinner with Andre - Louis Malle
Pink Floyd The Wall - Alan Parker
The Verdict - Sidney Lumet
Scarface - Brian De Palma
Annie Hall - Woody Allen
The Double Life of Veronique - K. Kieslowski
Smoke - Wayne Wang
Buffalo 66 - Vincent Gallo
Festen - Thomas Vinterberg
Idiot - Lars von Trier
Fight Club - David Fincher
Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson
O Brother, Where Art Thou - Brother Coens
Le conseguenze dell'amore - Paolo Sorrentino
Coffee and cigarettes - Jim Jarmush
El Metodo - Marcelo Pineyro
L'amico di famiglia - Paolo Sorrentino
La noche de los girasoles
Eagle vs Shark - Taika Cohen
No Country for Old Men - Brother Coens
The White Ribbon - Michael Haneke

Books:

Alberto Moravio
Roberto Bolano
Iain Banks
Roman Gary
Michail Bulgakov
Kurt Vonnegut
Franz Kafka
Aldous Huxley
Douglas Coupland
Irvine Welsh
Jerom David Salinger

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Traveling around USA by car

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Indonesia, Italy, Spain, United States

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