CURRENT MISSION

Take a sad song and make it better

ABOUT ME

¡Hola!, I am originally from Peru and immigrated to Canada in 2004 (I am Canadian now too!). I don't know how it happened but I ended up working in Finance. Hablo español. I am an Elvis man. I love The Beatles. Sometimes I take music too seriously. I have a record player. I still buy LPs (they sound much better than CDs). I might torture you with my impeccable musical taste while you stay with me. I am slightly hypochondriac. I am a coffee snob. I am not very sociable. I love vintage stuff. I am not a big fan of Salsa music, I am definitively not a Salsa dancer and I really do not know where to go for latin music in Toronto. I want to learn to speak French and Italian. I don't like Lima. I really like Toronto. I don't like the suburbs. I am a movie/music/book geek. I am very sarcastic. Conversacion en la Catedral and Cien años de Soledad are probably my favorites books. I believe in Organic Food. I try to eat healthy as much as I can but I am not obsessive about it. I like beer and wine. Sometimes I look extremely bored but I am actually having a good time. I love having a good conversation. I am agnostic. I am mainly a pessimistic person. I like B movies (they are so bad that they are good). If you hang out with me often, you will get random facts about things you could not care less to know.

PHILOSOPHY

Personal philosophy? that sounds so cheesy!

But let's quote Woody Allen: "If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host and I surf

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far it has been great, I have hosted quite a lot and also surfed a little bit

visited 11 states (4.88%)Create your own visited map of The World or another interesting project

Interests

Movies
Books
History
Music
People (not all though)
Beer
Wine
Coffee

• books
• dancing
• dining
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• organic food
• movies
• music
• latin music
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The Godfather, The man who loved women, Dr Strangelove, City Lights, The seven samurais, Amadeus , Annie Hall, Pulp Fiction, Man on the moon, Good Fellas, The birth of a nation , The battleship Potemkin, Modern Times, The General, Manhattan, 8 1/2, The Trilogy of Colors: Blue, White and Red

B-Movies:Batman (1965 version), Army of Darkness, The Attack of the 50 feet woman, Bubba-Ho-Tep

Filmmakers: Akira Kurosowa, Stanley Kubrik, Francois Truffaut, Woody Allen, Federico Fellini, Charlie Chaplin, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Martin Scorsese

Music: I am all over the place: Bach, Brahms, The Beatles, Radiohead, The Sadies, The Happy Pals, Django Reinhardt, Los Morochucos, Pedro Infante, Dean Martin, The Rolling Stones, R.E.M, Bob Dylan, Edith Piaf, Fats Domino, Charly Parker, Louis Amstrong, John Coltrane, The Velvet Underground, Elvis, Verdi, Wagner, Mozart, Howlin' Wolf, Nirvana, Leadbelly, Buddy Holly, The Doors, Chava Alberstein

Books (Literature): I am into classics mainly: El Quijote de la Mancha, Cien años de Soledad, Conversation en la Catedral, Pedro Paramo, La palabra del Mudo, Crime and Punishment, Madame Bovary

Authors (Literature): Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar, Juan Rulfo, Ernesto Sabato, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Oscar Wilde

Authors (Politics, Philosophy): Michel de Montaigne, Albert Camus, Seneca, Noam Chomsky, Joseph Stiglitz, Naomi Klein, Émile Cioran

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One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Done: 70 push ups every morning
Seen: Saw myself doing 70 push ups every morning

Countries I’ve Visited

Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Botswana, Canada, China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Peru

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