CURRENT MISSION

Learning, dreaming up, sharing and travelling... my guiding lines in life.

ABOUT ME

Welcome home, dear couchsurfers ! :D
You can know a lot from your potential or future hostess by reading my profile.

PHILOSOPHY

Don't waste time and energy on craps like career, money and social recognition. Life is short. Concentrate on the basics : (self) knowledge, sharing with those deserve it, making your dreams real, exploring the stunning nature and its repectful inhabitants ( mostly non human ).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By hosting, meeting or guiding people each time I can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have not couch surfed yet, but I plan to make my way around the world, when a relative or friend is not available.

Interests

litterature, myths, legends, imagination, exploring the infinite universe, observing clouds and skies, science and especially astronomy, art, gastronomy, history, geography, philosophy, revolutions, travels, drawing, fitness, outdoor sports and activities (hiking, climbing, sailing ), role playing games and geek culture.

• arts
• culture
• fitness
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• sailing
• sports
• rock climbing
• astronomy
• geography
• history
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

FILMS :

Very Bad Trip, Captain Orgazmo, The Big Lebowski, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Equilibrium, Hôtel Rwanda, The Shawshank Redemption , Slumdog Millionnaire, V for Vendetta, 300, Paris Texas, Brokeback Mountains, Into The Wild, Batman begins and The Dark Knight, Inception, Dracula, The Countess, Tim Burton, Monthy Pythons, Terry Gilliam, Coen Brothers...

SERIES :

Twins Peaks, Futurama, the Simpsons, Scrubs, South Park, Parker Lewis can't loose, My Name Is Earl, The Big Bang Theory, Daria, Little Britain, Doctor Who, Sliders, Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, Carnivale, Rome...

MUSIC

- classical music
- metal ( indus, heavy, thrash, death, folk, grind, black and many more )
- jazz
- blues
- world music
- good french variety songs

Favorite artists or bands :

Dee Dee Bridgewater, Nina Hagen, Björk, Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, Rob Zombie, Ministry, Paradise Lost, Dark Tranquility, In Flames, Type O Negative, Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot, Therion, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Theater of Tragedy, Lacuna Coil, Dimmu Borgir, Finntroll, Apocalyptica, C.O.B, Korn, Machine Head, Sepultura, Pantera, The Birthday Massacre, Era, Das Ich, Hocico, Myrath, Des' Ree, Claude Nougaro, Juliette, Edith Piaf, Paris Combo, Mano Solo, Bernard Lavilliers, Zazie, Les Cow-boys Fringuants...

BOOKS :

- Philosophy : Aristotles, Spinoza, Hume, Diderot, D'Holbach, Helvetius, Kant, Hegel, Kiekegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Adorno, Onfray

- Classical litterature : Dostoievski, Thomas Mann, Elias Canetti, Robert Musil, Frederick Douglass, JP Jacobsen, Kongens Fald of Johannes V. Jensen, Victor Hugo, Borges, Cortazar, The wonderful wizard of Oz...

- Modern novels : Le Clezio, Michel Tournier, Stéphane Audeguy, Richard Millet, Pierre Jourde, Paul Auster, Zoé Valdès, Naghib Mahfouz,

- Travel / explorer litterature : Nicolas Bouvier, Kenneth White, Bill Bryson, Sylvain Tesson, Bernard Olivier, Alexander Frater, Lawrence Millman, Kapuscinski, Nigel Barley, all about the Artic and Antartic areas, about the great North and the great South...

- Theatre : Strindberg, Ibsen, Ionesco, Beckett, Brecht, Büchner, Borchert, Shakespeare, Molière

- S-F : Ray Bradbury, Huxley, Orwell, Jules Verne, Douglas Adams

- Heroïc Fantasy : in Terry Pratchett I trust ! :)

- Horror : Maupassant, Poe, Stephen King, Ann Rice...

I intend to explore Lovecraft's world.

- RPG : the call of Cthulhu, Vampire and the world of darkness, Dungeons and dragons, Pathfinder, Exalted, Scion, Mississipi tales of the spooky south and many more...

- Scientific popularization : Hubert Reeves, Georges Charpak, Hawkins, David Berlinski

- Ecology : Yves Paccalet, Nicolas Hulot,

- Education : Condorcet, Jean Paul Brighelli

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Cleansing enema for New Year's Eve. An wonderful occasion to hang out in a hospital ;).
- A bath in winter in Russia ( water's temperature : approximately - 15°Celsius ).
- Exploring the stunning subterrean Paris with my friends, realm of silence, water and limestone.
- Hiking and climbing in Lofoten Islands.

Teach, Learn, Share

Turn around. That's my advice. If you're at a landmark or tourist site, turn around, and see what's going on around you, as opposed to just staring at what you're "supposed to" look at.

The more you put yourself out of your comfort zone, the more you learn about yourself.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, France