ABOUT ME

most of the time i am nice and sometimes i am confused.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

some hosting and some individual meet-ups involving a lot of talking and some showing them around/being shown around.

Interests

going to the movies, looking at art, reading, taking walks, dancing, talking about concepts and things I actually don't know much about, vacuum brewed coffee, manual drip coffee, French Press coffee, espresso

• arts
• dancing
• coffee
• movies
• reading

Music, Movies, and Books

some books i get enthusiastic about are david foster wallace's novels and short story collections, rolf dieter brinkmann's "Westwaerts" collection, and thomas bernhard's "Holzfaellen".

currently, i listen to a lot of klaus nomi, fever ray, jun togawa, janelle monaé and hauschka. and to stuff like this: http://youtu.be/3QtLb-e9aew

movie-wise, i'm really a sucker for highly aestheticized films like "drive" (not sure what to do with "only good forgives", though - was it really lame or am i simply missing out on something?) and "laurence anyways". i also like films by edward yang.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i'm always suspicious of myself: were the things which - now that they only consist in dreamlike pictorial memories - appear to have been amazing experiences really amazing when they happened? was i really awestruck, exceptionally happy and thoroughly overwhelmed, or did things (the moment they happened) feel much more average to me than i would allow myself to admit?