very down-to-earth guy. somewhat shy, but gets over it after 10 minutes chatting. I enjoy swimming and practicing some dance/flamenco.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've been living in NYC since Jan. 2015 and would like to couch surf so we can experience roomating possibilities. Also, for when I travel around the US... Big plans to get to know the Hudson Valley, and the far states of Alaska and Hawaii.

Interests

movies, pubs, beaches, camping, outdoors, indoors, dance concerts, art exhibitions, vernissages, theatre, going out for pizza, etc.

• arts
• books
• concerts
• dancing
• flamenco
• cooking
• cocktails
• partying
• pub crawls
• trivia
• movies
• traveling
• music
• outdoor activities
• camping
• swimming
• languages
• law
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Favourite books: angels and demons by dan brown, a quinta montanha de paulo coelho, bloody memory by martha graham, cazuza, so as maes sao felizes de lucinha araujo, death of a salesman, even cowgirls get the blues by tim robbins, flesh wounds and purple flowers, girl interrupted by suzanna kaysen, heavier than heaven biography of kurt cobain, i am yours by canadian playwright judith thompson, kushiel's dart, kushiel's chosen, kushiel's avatar trilogy by jacqueline carey, life of pi, man and his world compilation (especially the short story: for the waters of babylon), me talk pretty one day by david sedaris, o alquimista de paulo coelho, o homem duplicado de jose saramago, siddhartha by hermann hesse, sweet bird of youth by tennessee williams, the archaic culture revival by terrence mckenna, the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime by marc haddon, the great gatsby, the teachings of don juan a yaqui way of knowledge by carlos castaneda, the thief's journal and miracle of the rose by jean genet.

Favourite TV series: 30 Rock (Tina Fey!), absolutely fabulous (UK), amazing race, anthony bourdain, boston legal (justiça sem limites), brothers & sisters, californication, extreme makeover, gilmore girls, gossip girl, history channel, law & order criminal intent, lost, mujeres asesinas (argentina), northern exposure, prison break, seinfeld, sex and the city, six feet under, south park, the daily show with john stewart, the family guy, the L word, the OC, the sarah silvermann show, the simpsons, the tudors, third watch, true blood, whose line is it anyways with drew carey.

Favourite films: 300, 2046 (asian cinema), abra los ojos (original spanish version of vanilla skies), a genius in the family (um gênio na família), a home at the end of the world, annie hall & sonhos de um sedutor by woody allen, a scanner darkly (o homem duplo), atame de almodovar, auberge espagnol, babel, bagdah cafe, bicho de sete cabeças, billy elliott, camaron de la isla documentary film, carlos saura's flamenco, carne tremula de almodovar, cazuza - o tempo nao para, confessions of a dangerous mind, crash, c.r.a.z.y. (quebec cinema), dancer in the dark by lars von trier, dogma, elizabeth, equilibrium, erin brockovich, es mas facil un camello..., eternal sunshine of spotless mind, fight club (clube da luta), flor de mi secreto de almodovar, frida, ghost light drama-documentary biography of martha graham, hable con ella de almodovar, igby goes down, kill bill 1 & 2, kissing jessica stein (beijando jessica stein), la ley del deseo de almodovar, la leyenda tel tiempo (about camaron de la isla), la maleducation de almodovar, le fabuleux destin d'amelie poulain, les poupees rousses (sequel of auberge espagnol, "bonecas russas"), little miss sunshine, lucky number slevin, magnolia by p.t. anderson, match point by woody allen, meet the fockers 2, mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios de almodovar, muriel's wedding (o casamento de muriel), oceans 11 & 12, o auto da compadecida, o livro das revelações, o pai o!, o que e isso companheiro?, orgasmo, os infiltrados, pulp fiction, que he hecho para merecer eso de almodovar, run lola run, shine, shortbus, sleepers (a vingança adormecida), stranger than fiction, tacones lejanos de almodovar, terminator 1 & 2, the bubble (israel), the edukators (germany), the extraordinary league (uma liga extraordinária), the hours, the royal taunebaums, the rules of attraction, the virgin suicides, threesome, time to kill, todo sobre mi madre de almodovar, transamerica, vampiros en la havanna (cartoon), volver de almodovar, woman on top, yi-yi, y tu mama tambien.

Favourite music: aerosmith, aimee mann, air, altamiro carrilho, amy winehouse, arnaldo antunes, barao vermelho, bebel gilberto, beck, ben harper & the innocent criminals, bjork, bob dylan, buena vista social club, camaron de la isla, cassia eller, cazuza, celia flores, compay segundo, diane dufresne, djavan, donovan, elliott smith, elis regina, elza soares, frejat, gilberto gil, hermeto pascual, hole, janis joplin, jeff buckley, jenifer aubry, jesus christ superstar soundtrack (lol), jimi hendrix, jim morrisson, joaquin sabina, kevin johansen, kurt cobain, lenine, mala rodriguez, mano chao, maria jimenez, marina lima, marisa monte, mercedes sossa, m.i.a., milton nascimento, morcheba, morissey, mutantes, nathalie merchant & the 10,000 maniacs, nirvana, novos baianos, ojos de brujo, the paula cole band, the pat metheny group, pearl jam, pink floyd, pj harvey, radiohead, red hot chilli peppers, regina spektor, sarah jane morris, sinead o'connor, sublime, the arcade fire, the cure, the moldy peaches, the kills, the smiths, the stills, the white stripes, yann tiersen, yeahyeahyeahs, zeca baleiro.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

World wide living since 1997, non-planing, it all went smooth, the least i can say!

Teach, Learn, Share

Favourite quotes...

unas palabritas de Cesare Pavese (italia, 1908-1950)... "los viajes son una brutalidad. le obligan a uno a confiar en extraños y a perder de vista toda la comunidad familiar de la casa y los amigos. se esta en continuo desequilibrio. nada le pertenece a uno salvo las cosas esenciales: el aire, el descanso, los sueños, el mar, el cielo, y todo tiende hacia lo eterno o a lo que imaginamos de la eternidad."

some wise words from Cesare Pavese... "Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sun, the sky - all things tending toward the eternal or what we imagine of it." (my translation)

"o ridículo não existe. os que ousaram desafiá-lo conquistaram o mundo", octave mirbeau, 1850-1917.

"l'amour est un sentiment de la petite bourgeoise", persepolis film.

"maldita la tercera persona del plural", por joaquin sabina en la voz de maria jimenez.

"me dijó 'tienes fuego?', tranqui que me lo monto, de legal sali ayer del talego... que guay si me invitaras a cenar", joaquin sabina en la voz de maria jimenez.

"je étabilirai la souveraineté comme un rocher de broncel", frédéric guillaume I, 1740.

"what are you", asks a guard, "i am complicated", replies dorian grey in 'the extraordinary league' film as he gets violently shot during conflict. "how dreadful!" cried out lord henry in oscar wilde's 'the portrait of dorian grey' book.

"now that i've met you, would you object to never seeing each other again? [...] when one act of kindness could be defnetly deathly", sung by aimee mann in 'deathly' song and said by claudia in 'magnolia' film by p.t. anderson.

"then you talk, talk, talk about it, you talk as if you cared, but when your talk is over you tilt that bottle in the air, tossing back more than your share [...] we will talk, talk, talk about this, when your head is clear, yes i'll discuss this in the morning, but until then, then you may talk but i won't hear", yelled out by nathalie merchant & the 10,000 maniacs.

"happy holidays, said sick saviour, the leaving lover that i still favour", elliott smith (1969-2003) in 'junk bond trader' song.

"las malas compañias son las mejores [...] la más señora de todas las putas, la más puta de todas las señoras", joaquin sabina en la voz de maria jimenez.

"un dia te das cuenta que hay una distancia enorme entre la persona que deseastes ser y la persona en que te has convertido", victoria abril/marisa paredes en 'tacones lejanos' de almodóvar.

"onde eu possa guardar meus amigos, meus discos e livros e nada mais", elis regina em 'casa no campo'.

"We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.", The Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot.

"em verdade, Karma (ação) torna-se Yôga (união) quando é feito sem nenhum apego; um renunciante não deveria sequer se lembrar do que faz, ele não deveria fazer nenhum Karma antecipando qualquer resultado. essa é a ação sem desejo (Nishkarma) ideal em seu apogeu. o melhor Karma é aquele que é feito pelo chamamento do dever; porque ele deve ser feito, não porque há vantagem em fazê-lo."
-Sathya Sai Baba

"As falhas são o combustível do sucesso" -Ishikawa

"A realidade é mais fértil do que a mais fértil das imaginações." -Vieira de Andrade.

"A realidade é a mais fértil das imaginações." -fabito passos.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Global trivia knowledge, languages, cooking, art crafting, music!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Canada, Israel, Spain, Switzerland, United States