CURRENT MISSION

"Improve my life skills" - "Noi siamo tutti viaggiatori e cerchiamo l'Italia" - Goethe in s(t)itu(t)

ABOUT ME

Keen on culture, sport, excursions (cities or nature: mountains, bathing in natural lakes/seas/oceans).

On your own it's fine. Sharing with relatives, friends and travelers it's finer.

Woody Allen's elegant humor : Staline (actually) said "No human being, no problem" (niet cilawiek, niet prablem).

PHILOSOPHY

in joy we trust - Finding bEAuTy (title of a song by Craig Armstrong), GoOD, well in a word: QUaLitY
(not too naïve though..)

Inspiring authors: in PSYCHOLOGY, Françoise Dolto (+ the big Freud and Jung, but not really read them yet.. not very accessible, also because not contemporary, Dolto is easy-readable).
In litterature, Marguerite Yourcenar, Marcel Proust (can be loong and boring sometimes, but his theories and comparisons are really worth reading).

"Je ne veux pas dire que j'aie toujours eu l'obsession du bien. Il y a eu des périodes de ma vie où j'ai eu l'obession du beau - ou l'obsession du vrai, - ou l'obsession de l'exquis, - ou l'obsession de la vitalité pure et simple" Montherlant

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Meeting people where I live) and in the places where I would like to travel soon (Canada, Argentina, Brazil, South Corea, ...)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Like to be a small part of Couchsurfing's "Brave new world" (Shakespeare+Huxley+Malick).
Hosted and was hosted, "welcomely" :)
Interesting talks about nature, liberty, how to pursue a good life ("pursuit of happiness") with fellow couchsurfers, like Panell Neweva.

Interests

Excursions in natural places/mountain, hiking, trail/trekk/mountain bike, camping. Great memories of wild camping in Croatia, Spain and above all wild western Canada.
Sports : Running, football (soccer), hiking, bike, tennis
Languages : love Spanish gazpacho smooth artopecielado sound, Russian also, British accent too.
Travels and countries : like Italy, enjoyed Belgrad, Riga, Western Canada rocky mountains, Croatian wild islands.

• animals
• culture
• singing
• beauty
• running
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• drums
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• sports
• soccer
• tennis
• swimming
• languages
• psychology
• lakes
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC
The Strokes - Girls in Hawaii - Midlake - Bon Iver - Arcade Fire
Mozart - Haendel - Gluck

FILMS / CINEMA
Arnaud Desplechin
Mia Hansen-Love
Christophe Honoré
Eric Rohmer ("Ma nuit chez Maud", etc..)
François Truffaut
I love most of brothers Coen (especially the "minor" "Burn after Reading").

Probably my favorite director is FF Coppola
Kazan's "America America", "On the waterfront".
Arthur Penn's "La poursuite impitoyable" (The Chase)
Old boy
The Departed (Scorsese's film, great diCaprio and Damon and Vera Farmiga),
The Godfather + Tetro + Rumble fish (FF Coppola),

GREAT BOOKS:
La forme de l'eau / LA FORMA DELL'AQUA (Andrea Camilleri)
The City of Death / (Herbert Liebermann),
L'Oeuvre au Noir (Marguerite Yourcenar),
1984 (George Orwell)+ Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), In search of Lost time (Marcel Proust)
Kierkegaard

TV shows:
THE SOPRANOS, The Wire,
Mad Men (season 4 is a "tour de force" !),
24, Rome

PAINTERS:
Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Edvard Much, Camille Pissarro

"Il y a un film qui me hante, c

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Let me a few years.
For the moment:
- "meeting" a wild buffalo in Bialowieza National park (Poland/Belarus)
- "meeting" a young bear in Canada. A moose also (I like this animal!)
- swim/bath in the wild Pacific coast (Vancouver island, western side)
- jump from 15 (20?!) meter-high in wild fresh water

Teach, Learn, Share

"TEACH ME SOMETHING WONDERFUL". Of Montreal, The pAsT is A gRoTesQue AniMAl" (grrreat song)

Teaching French, football, running (!), tennis, singing maybe, saxophone, percussion (xylophone, drums, kettle drums)
Learning Polish, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, English, Spanish, German. Learning how to really sing with technique (!)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France