CURRENT MISSION

to make changes

ABOUT ME

I am a melancholic who likes to smile a lot.

I have several aptitudes, all of them wasted. (Well... it's not that bad, recently I started playing the Western concert flute:)).

Sounds and letters are my main course every day, but recently I developed a feeling of affection to edible things (I often feel like conjuring up meals and discovering new tastes).

Photography is also an important part of my way of perceiving things around (no matter real or unreal ones).

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PHILOSOPHY

"Only by living absurdly it is possible to break out of this infinite absurdity." - J. Cortazar

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I surf. I host.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted and surfed as well, met interesting human beings.

Interests

- literature (Latin American and Polish mostly)
- music
- photography, graphic design
- the expanding Universe which is so scary
- watching animal documentaries
- riding my obsolete bike
- street art
- collecting different kinds of rubbish (like abandoned street name plates)
- travelling
- doing bizarre projects (convincing people to pose me with an old kitchen mixer, or sticking a kettle to the ceiling in a tram - sometimes it's funny to make people a little bit confused)
- vege cuisine, baking, inhaling spices

• animals
• arts
• literature
• design
• graphic design
• street art
• photography
• documentaries
• concerts
• baking
• traveling
• cars
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: jazz, electronica, experimental, balkan folk, trip hop, abstract hip hop, alternative, classical (and anything unclassifiable between those)

check my ears at last.fm

MOVIES: Polan€žski ("Knife in the water" and "Repulsion"), Jeunet, Czech cinema, european movies in general, "Innocent sorcerers" by Wajda, "Night train" by Kawalerowicz, J.J. Antonisz

BOOKS: Julio Cortazar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Vladimir Nabokov, Truman Capote, Witold Gombrowicz, Manuel Puig, Witkacy, Tove Jansson, Eduardo Gudino Kieffer, Jose Lezama Lima, Colette, Isabel Allende, Virginia Woolf, Michal Witkowski, Herta Muller, Michal Ajvaz, Bruno Schulz, Joanna Bator, Sylwia Chutnik, Ignacy Karpowicz

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- a total eclipse of the Sun in Hungary in 1999

- a hitch-hiking / couchsurfing trip through Finland (from Turku to Inari and back) - 14 days, c.a. 3000 kilometres, 28 cars.

- a cloud of fireflies in Georgia

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to make in an A4 paper sheet a hole so big that you can fit in with a friend or two.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Poland, United Kingdom

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