CURRENT MISSION

Travel extensively, meet good people... have fun ?

ABOUT ME

I am a Belgian guy born in Luxembourg who has been living in Montréal, Québec, Canada for 15 years. 15 years ?! Time passes so quickly !

I am open-minded, friendly, curious, creative... kind of cool and funny, I think. I try to live in the moment and I'm quite good at it.

As it's written above I am an event organizer and project manager in communication. I'm also a therapist in training. I worked for an art film cinema, as director of communication of a documentary festival and for a craft association, as a manager for a huge corn maze with theatrical animations, etc, etc. I also managed a permanent graphic design contest/t-shirt business. I hosted a radio show about comic books/graphic novels (not the super-hero type) for 10 years. But while I always have various projects in motion, I always make time for friends and culture.

PS : My first language is French and I am more used to speaking French so you can write to me in both English and French.

PHILOSOPHY

Never stop being curious !

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I stayed at a couchsurfer girl's place with a friend in Brazil (for Carnival in Rio!) few years ago and it was great ! In Brazil, I met couchsurfers from all around the world.

I did some couchsurfing in New Zealand and NYC too and I host and met CS in Montréal sometimes.

Interests

My interests are music, cinema, literature, graphic novels/comic books (not the super-hero type), trying new foods, drinks, swimming, scuba diving, traveling (been to 4 of the 5 continents), discovering new things, new people...

• arts
• culture
• books
• literature
• design
• graphic design
• documentaries
• festivals
• movies
• traveling
• music
• scuba diving
• swimming
• business

Music, Movies, and Books

Ah, lists... I both love and hate lists! Those ones could go on and on but let's go for a bit of namedropping :

-Music : The National, Caribou, Koudlam, Beach Fossils, Calexico, M83, Gorillaz, Portishead, Spektre, The Herbaliser, Laurent Garnier, Boards of Canada, Tindersticks, Modeselktor, Mojave 3, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Mac de Marco, Tycho, New Order, Art Brut, Tale of us, Refused, Cat Power, LCD Soundsystem, Rone, Migala, Puppetmastaz, Pixies, Beastie Boys, Leonard Cohen, Liars, Trentemøller, dEUS, Jessica93, Chromatics, Front 242, Sparklehorse, The Streets, Buzzcocks, Joy Division, Jurassic 5, We Are Wolves, Fuck Buttons, Recondite, The Stone Roses, Beirut, Doomtree, Socalled, Moderat, Wu Tang, Herman Düne, Girls in Hawaii, Swell, Plastikman, Jonathan Richman, Gravenhurst, Slowdive, The Fall, Technical Kidman, Echo & the Bunnymen, Atmosphere, Ride, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Morrissey/The Smiths, The Field mice, P.O.S., Electrelane, La Maison Tellier, Plastikman, Daniel Darc, Aphex Twin, The Cure, Max Cooper, Slowdive, Duchess Says, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Sonic Youth, Sage Francis, BADBADNOTGOOD, Shellac, Teenage Fanclub, The Wedding Present, Charles Bradley, Mac Demarco, etc.

-Cinema : films by Coen brothers, Spike Jonze, Woody Allen, Michael Glawogger (great documentaries!), Wes Anderson, Miranda July, Hayao Miyazaki, Bruno Podalydès, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Orson Welles, Jonathan Caouette, Jacques Audiard, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski, Atom Egoyan (old ones), Bertrand Blier (very old ones), etc. A few titles : American Splendor, Carlito's way, Fargo, The Virgin Suicides, À l'Ouest de Pluton, Donnie Darko, Anyway the Wind Blows, Léolo, Chacun cherche son chat, Only the Young, Apocalypse Now, Pulp Fiction, Secretary, Les bronzés font du ski, Trainspotting, Rosemary's baby, Gaz bar blues, Tu dors Nicole, etc.

-Literature : Paul Auster, Russel Banks, Emmanuel Carrère, Jeffrey Eugenides, Miranda July, Robert Mc Liam Wilson, Hunter S. Thompson, Albert Camus, J.D. Sallinger, Nick Hornby, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Vladimir Nabokov, Irvine Welsh, Dennis Lehane, John Irving, Jonathan Coe, William Boyd, T.C. Boyle, etc.

-Comics : Christophe Blain, Frédérik Peeters, Franquin, Riad Sattouf, Charles Burns, Lewis Trondheim, Anouk Ricard, Daniel Clowes, Lucie Durbiano, Aude Picault, Manu Larcenet, Guy Delisle, Baru, Yves Chaland, Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, David B, Jean-Christophe Menu, Joe Sacco, Simon Hanselmann, etc.

-TV shows : I don't really watch a lot of TV but I liked things like Twin Peaks, Seinfeld, Breaking bad, Top of the lake and Bored to death.

-Food: Thaï, Indian, Japanese, Korean, etc. And also cheese and cheese-related meals like raclette, tartiflette, fondue, etc.

-Drinks : I don't drink a lot of strong alcohol but I like gin & tonic. I like drinking wine and I have to admit that I'm a bit of a beer snob (I'm Belgian after all!). That means I prefer micro-breweries to commercial companies. One of my favourites is Orval... brewed by Monks! It's made in the region I was born in. You have to try it! Québec has a lot of great craft beers too.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Visiting Angkor temples in Cambodia was pretty amazing but leaving my country for another one was an experience too !

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Guatemala, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Laos, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Senegal, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Belgium, Canada, Luxembourg