CURRENT MISSION

My family (we have two daughters), Exploring, Cycling (Fixed gear), Make Music, Lindy Hop

ABOUT ME

A creative, lost soul on this planet, loving music, singing, dance, cycling (Fixed gear) and more, looking to meet up with any other person who is open, creative, and passionate.

PHILOSOPHY

Enjoy the simple pleasures in life, and share them if you can with awesome people you meet.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hope to participate to this community by moving from place to place, taking with me my creativity, music and stories and learning from other people their stories.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far I've had my first couch surf experiences in Cologne (2012) when I surfed at Norman's place and in 2013 at Patrick's place. I hope to experience many more similar couch surfs :)

Interests

Creative stuff:
Game development, Music - Singing, Composing, Trombone, Piano, Guitar, Drawing, Designing, Cheesy ballads

Physical stuff:
Cycling (Fixed gear), Dancing (when nobody's looking)

Geeky stuff: Games (Bioware RPGs), GT5 (PS3), Japanese
Very Geeky stuff: Magic the Gathering, Pen 'n' paper RPG (DnD, V:TM)

• singing
• photography
• concerts
• dancing
• walking
• video games
• drawing
• magic
• music
• guitar
• piano
• cycling
• surfing
• beaches
• gaming
• biking
• fixed gear
• games
• rpg
• game development
• tabletop rpgs
• fixie

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
All things Ghibli, Many Sci Fi movies, some adventure movies, occasional Art house flick

Series:
Game of Thrones, Westworld (only season 1), The Expanse, A zilion anime (but of course only the good ones)

Music:
Jon Hopkins, Triggerfinger, Faith No More, Pink Floyd, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Bowie, Prince, Ting Tings, Fink, Jonsi, John Williams, Massive Attack, and much more (Guilty pleasures: Sia, Kate Bush, Cyndi Lauper)

Books:
Jack Vance, Chuck Palahniuk, Robert Jordan, Geaorge R.R. Martin, Stephen King, Haruki Murakami

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Bondi Beach (Sydney) during the Australian winter, walking through the sea while watching the sunset.
- Surfing in Los Angeles (Hermosa Beach) and utterly failing at it :)
- Having a vocal battle, during a concert in front of 1000 people o.O
- Cycling from the Netherlands to Germany.
- Publishing an Indie Game that sold 60.000 copies.
- Landing an investor for our Tabletop RPG.
(Ooops, that's many amazing things. I also am prone to do very stupid things, so that probably balances out the universe).

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach:
Singing, Tombone, Piano, Guitar, Dutch, English, some Lindy Hop, basic Japanese, indie game industry inside knowledge, bits of music theory

Learn:
Japanese, dancing (most styles), advanced drawing techniques, advanced singing techniques

Share:
Stories, food 'n' drinks (no alcohol for me though)

What I Can Share with Hosts

My stories, my knowledge of the (indie) game industry, food and drinks (sharing meals and such) and anything that I can teach.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Netherlands

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