My perspective is enormous.
Every leaf.
Every cloud.
I see the hands which have formed us.
And some days all you got
Is a night time graveyard walk.
And you whistle some sweet melody
To the ghosts down at the dock.

Sing in to your hand.
Lead the marching band.
Don't you let 'em fade your colors grey.
'Cause when all is said and done,
When youth is spent and burned,
You'll see that it's all about:
Music!
Flowers!
Babies!
Sharing the good times!
Traveling not just for business!
Excepting your mortality!
This is finally what I've learned.

And then in the end
It's family and friends.
Loving yourself, but not only yourself.
It's about the good walk and the hard walk
And the young girls you made cry.
It's about make a little music every day till' you die.

It's a beautiful ride.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

So, maybe I cannot travel at this point but that doesn't mean I cannot host someone and make her/his stay in Zagreb nicer and more pleasant.

From my point of view, world is going totally pear shaped and...

...why to participate in that when I can do something nice and help someone.

Interests

Music, painting, bike riding, running...

• dogs
• running
• painting
• music
• cycling

Music, Movies, and Books

Music

Almost everything but lately mostly Jack White (+all his bands - The White Stripes, The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather) and delta blues (Robert Johnson and Son House).

Category "almost everything" includes:

Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds, Gram Parsons, The Doobie Brothers, The Animals, Bee Gees, David Bowie, Jethro Tull, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, The Who, The Clash, The Doors... then Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson (do you know that he wrote lyrics for "Me and Bobby Mcgee"?), The Highwaymen, Tammy Wynette, Patsy Cline... The Black Heart Procession, The Green Day, Sigur Ros, UNKLE, and so on and so on...

Aaaaaand, there is, of course, tango music :) From golden era. And here I even have my favourite song - Manoblanca performed by Ángel D'Agostino/Ángel Vargas. Just perfect :)

Ah, not enough room for all great music :)

Movies

Paris, Texas
Directed by Wim Wenders, music written and performed by Ry Cooder and craaaaaaaazy combination of Harry Dean Stanton and Nastassja Kinski. If that is not perfect combination, I really don't know what is.

Dead man
OK this is almost perfect combination - written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, music written and performed by Neil Young and young Johnny Depp, b/w, he is traveling to meet his Creator... epic :)

Breaking the Waves
This is typically brutal Lars von Trier in, in my opinion, his best movie. Twisted story about giving yourself and ultimate love - which in this case also means ultimate sacrifice. Like you have expected something sweet and cuddly from Lars? :)

Books

Everything started with the Little Prince and Jonathan Livingston Seagull (OK, this is romanticised version so it cannot start with my first picture book) and continued with Hermann Hesse. Then came Tolstoy's Resurrection and continued with Russian realism. Then I went back to the transition from the Russian romantism to realism with Lermontov's Hero of Our Time, then I fell in love with Edgar Allan Poe (actually, topic of my final work in high school was - Symbolism and mysticism of Edgar Allan Poe in the context of the Croatian modern literature :) nice). Goooooooo, Baltimore Ravens :) French symbolism with Baudelaire, Verlaine and Rimbaud, then naturalism and Zola. And, at the end came Bulgakov. Just great.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Helping my friends on daily basis.

Teach, Learn, Share

If you want to learn, you can learn a lot about Croatia, ergo, I can share that with you. Mostly things which can come handy in pub quizzes :) :) :) :) such as...

The official flower of the Republic of Croatia is Iris (perunika in Croatian – word derives from Perun – highest of all Slavinian gods, god of thunder).

Croatia has more than a thousand islands on the Adriatic sea, precisely - 1185 (66 inhabited). The name of the Adriatic see, as well as its Croatian version Jadran, seem to originate from the ancient name of a very old Croatian city Zadar – Yadera.

The smallest town in the world - having city walls, two streets, two churches and 23 inhabitants – is Hum, in the Istrian peninsula.

Dalmatia is the coastal region of Croatia from the Kvarner Riviera in the north to Dubrovnik in the south. Dalmatia is named after the Dalmati, an Illyrian tribe who lived in the area around 1200 BC. The Dalmatian dog, also known as the Dubrovnik hunter, originally came from Dalmatia.

The necktie can be traced back to the time of the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) when Croatian mercenaries from the Military Frontier in French service, wearing their traditional small, knotted neckerchiefs, aroused the interest of the Parisians. Due to the slight difference between the Croatian word for Croats, "Hrvati", and the French word, "Croates", the garment gained the name "Cravat".

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala became renowned for further development of the mechanical pencil (1906) – then called an "automatic pencil" – and the first solid-ink fountain pen (1907). Among his patented inventions were also a hot water bottle – his first patented invention, the "Termofor"; a type of bluing detergent, a rail-car brake and an anode battery.

Auguste Marmont, Napoleon’s general, in his memoires quotes Napoleon's words about Croatians: ˝If I had 100 000 Croatian soldiers I would conquer the World.˝

During European wars with Ottoman Empire (Turkish) Croatia was as a shield that defended Europe. In that time Croatia lost most of its territory and it was often referred as Relics of the relics of the Croatian kingdom - "Reliquaie reliquiarum olim regni Croatiae".

The first quarantine was practiced as a measure of disease prevention related to the plague. The word "quarantine" originates from the Venetian dialect form of the Italian quaranti giorni, meaning 'forty days'. This is due to the 40 day isolation of ships and people prior to entering the city of Dubrovnik in Dalmatia.

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Croatian Serb, was most known scientists. Tesla registered patents for over seven hundred inventions and in 1942 the American Supreme Court decided that it was Tesla who invented the radio and not Marconi. The electricity as we know it today is also one of his inventions. Tesla refused a joint Nobel Prize with T.A Edison.

Croatian stone is one of the biggest Croatian (Dalmatian) prides. Stone from island Hvar was built in German parliament – Reichstag, and the stone from the island of Brač – in the White house.

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What I Can Share with Hosts

Everything :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Croatia