CURRENT MISSION

SHOOT FILM!! WRITE STORIES!!!! LOCATE MY TOWEL AND finally SHOOT MORE FILM!!

ABOUT ME

Friendly, curious, quirky, open, funny (?) I get along with all kinds of people. I love to travel and meet new friends. I like to cook, eat and also eat AND cook.
I see the world through my camera lense and it always is surprizing. I'm a reader, writer, filmer and when no one is looking... a great dancer.

PHILOSOPHY

Erm... treat people well. Explore the world. Have adventures! Eat Ice Cream

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My family has hosted couchsurfers over the years... It's time I started my own page.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Our family has hosted surfers and I have surfed with them as well. I have met some amazing people from all over the world through Couchsurfing; everyone from Luca, the attorney-to-be in Italy to an entire Brazilian rock band sleeping under my dining room table, hosting has made me itch to get out there and do it myself!

Interests

Film, fiction, stories,brilliant sunsets, fairy tales (old fairy tales... they get more interesting with age), I like finding little places (cubbyholes, lost alleyways, a crumbling castle in the woods) I have had an unhealthy child hood obsession with trains, I enjoy social psychology (fairly recent development for me), Dr. Who, German expressionism, Mythusters, love, death and a very clean towel... I also WANT to taste, smell see and be dragged through every culture in the known world...

• culture
• writing
• documentaries
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• traveling
• drawing
• law
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: I don't think my movie selection is written in stone, I'm always willing to see something new... I enjoyed lots of films, and so far I have found films... heres a few I can call off the tip of my toes to the top of my head:

Alice (1988) directed by Jan Svankmajer
This take on Alice in Wonderland seems to replace the characters, with toys, and household objects, creepy or otherwise... The bunny is stuffed and constantly sewing tears in itself, The caterpillar is a stuffed sock sitting on a wooden dowl in the shape of a Mushroom, its covered in rusty nails, sawdust and peach preservative jars... :)

Batman (1989)
This film is from the year of my birth... well I thought it was cool... apart from that, this film is an excellent example of how a fictional world might be cobbled together... The acting choice for the role of batman is unprecedented for me, because I felt like this was somehow closer to the Detective Comics version of batman... but I again am trying to remain neutral about it, I LOVED this film and the recent ones as well...

M By Fritz Lang

I am just putting M up on here, but I also fell in love with Metropolis... I havn't done any further research into my favorite stylistic approach to filmmaking sadly enough...

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Such a beautiful film, It was a landscape painted with expressions of terror, anxiety and love LOL :)

Bringing Up Baby
Carrey Grant YAY!! I think the use of outrageous situations in a film bring out the true character...

Arsenic and Old Lace
Carrey Grant Again!! I absolutely love the cinematography, as it was so simple... the director seemed to be interested in coverage, and it allows the watcher to beleive they are in the room...

Rope (Hitchcock)
Vertigo (Hitchcock)

DELICATESSEN
I am a REALLY mushy person and my heart sang for this strange couple and this beautifully crafted world

Amelie
I fell in absolute love... Beautiful character description, archetypes and also it showed how unimportant things really shape the important aespects of people's lives... :3

City of Lost Children
Unique fairytale. Love with serious boundaries, a beautifully reflective set with ability to mirror the world around it and the feelings of the populace in tandem.

Nosferatu
Ok, I had to, this film was brilliant in it's lighting
The Bicycle Theif
No questions asked here

Fifth Element

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Once upon a Time in the West

ANY SPAGETTI WESTERN

(It tain't a movie, but I have to say that Cowboy Bebop was possibly the best animated and edited musical experience of my life... It changed the meaning of Jazz for me Forever!)

Nymph (a film that came out in 2009)

Les Triplettes of Bellvieue
OH MY GOD WHAT AN ANIMATED MASTERPIECE OF SUBTLE FARCICAL COMEDY, NO WONDER IT GOT THE ACADEMY!!
Not a film for people looking for intense verbal dialogue, it is more intense, in shape dialogue, physical dialogue and finally in subtle humor.

Resivoire Dogs
Pulp Fiction

The Jungle book (The animated movie and the live action with Jeremy Irons)
Again... wonderful mushy love movie in the live action, the animated one is ingrained in my psyche :D

Ok... I hate stopping a beautiful rant about film... I also have a tender spot for "The Thief and the Cobbler" (the original which was later butchered by mirimax) most Woody Allen films, anything from PIXAR (YAY!) and now I must force myself to stop

Music: Danny Elfman (and Oingo Boingo, South Park tunes, Mozart, Phillip Glass, Oh god, the music selection isn't as limited as it seems... I tend to have a need for evocative music, something that is layered... I hate saying complex, but there you have it... My main philosiphy is complexity, contradiction and getting along with everyone! :)

Books: I generally have a need for books, as a means of escape and total immersion, I get lost in novels with a price, or a journey, but it can't be too much about one thing... limit the world to functional basics, then it really gets boring... if functionality takes a fantastic turn (looking into Richard Preston's "The Hot Zone") I am stuck in it... I enjoyed reading Terry Pratchett, I managed through Douglas Adams... I tend to enjoy books, and love them dearly, and putting them down is depressing, but it's only equally depressing moment, is when I might not get to go to these places, or even worse, get to go, and then lose the fantastical inaccurate magic that comes with someone who knows too little, or tries to ignore the fact that they know all too much...
Basically, the more the author is blanketing a great many things to explain the world, or wether the research is extreme and the predictions of the research lead to extreme metaphorical results... I'm a HAPPY MAN!!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I Started Filming Documentaries at the age of nine and was lucky enough to get to inverview some cool people like: His Holiness the Fourteenth Dali Lama and others

Teach, Learn, Share

I seek to learn everything, because I can say proudly that I am not an expert in anything(as I am constantly having to revise what I know :D)

I am a decent cook. I can teach you to draw a little, I can teach you what all the buttons on your digital camera are for... I am willing to tell of the time I stayed in India, I spent my early childhood filming Documentaries and I absolutely love bits of information...

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Congo, Costa Rica, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Mexico, Peru, Russian Federation, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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