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Overview

  • 3 references
  • Fluent in English, Icelandic
  • 45, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Software engineer, of sorts
  • B.S.
  • From Reykjavik
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Expand, give and meet new people.

ABOUT ME

I'm a software engineer with literary aspirations, I work the hours and at night I beat my head against the towering edifice that is the creative process. Hilarity ensues.

PHILOSOPHY

Live and let live.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I intend to host people as soon as I get a couch ready, but before that I intend to meet people for coffee or beer or whatnot, and see whether I can help.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Green as the day is long.

Interests

Literature, Creativity, People, Art, Cinema, Culture and Debauchery.

  • arts
  • culture
  • literature
  • beer
  • coffee
  • movies
  • socializing
  • engineering
  • software

Music, Movies, and Books

Yes, but in reverse order. I'm an indie hipster bastard when it comes to music, aspiring pomo-lit-faggot when it comes to books and a big fan of film-noir, avant-garde and other hip french labels when it comes to cinema.

Among my favorite authors I could name, in absolutely free-associative order: Charles Stross, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Dan Simmons, Philip K. Dick, Umberto Eco, William Gibson, Vernor Vinge, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Auster, Alessandro Baricco, Austin Osman Spare and Georges Bataille.

To name a few.

In the area of cinema, my favorite directors are, again in automatic-writing order: Andrei Tarkovsky, Jim Jarmushc, Takashi Miike, Wim Wenders, David Lynch, Hal Hartley, Akira Kurosawa, John Hillcoat and more in that line.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once saw an oyster unboil an omelet.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to count to 800. I can also teach you how to read upside down, assuming you can read in the first place.

Countries I’ve Visited

Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Iceland

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