CURRENT MISSION

every time I have a mission I end up doing something else

ABOUT ME

"To a child who is fond of maps and engravings
The universe is the size of his immense hunger.
Ah! how vast is the world in the light of a lamp!
In memory's eyes how small the world is!

One morning we set out, our brains aflame,
Our hearts full of resentment and bitter desires,
And we go, following the rhythm of the wave,
Lulling our infinite on the finite of the seas:

Some, joyful at fleeing a wretched fatherland;
Others, the horror of their birthplace; a few,
Astrologers drowned in the eyes of some woman,
Some tyrannic Circe with dangerous perfumes.

Not to be changed into beasts, they get drunk
With space, with light, and with fiery skies;
The ice that bites them, the suns that bronze them,
Slowly efface the bruise of the kisses.

But the true voyagers are only those who leave
Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons,
They never turn aside from their fatality
And without knowing why they always say: "Let's go!"

Those whose desires have the form of the clouds,
And who, as a raw recruit dreams of the cannon,
Dream of vast voluptuousness, changing and strange,
Whose name the human mind has never known!"
(Baudelaire)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hosted several people in Dublin and surfed a lot when I was living in Belgium

Interests

• perfumes
• cartography

Music, Movies, and Books

movie-directors: Francoise Truffaut, Woody Allen and many others
music: mmm... can't say... indie, trip-hop, electro, jazz, bossanova, rock Nick Drake, Portishead, I am Kloot, Decemberists, Interpol, Blondie Redhead, Codeine velvet Club, Charles Mingus, Keith Jarrett, The beatles, Belle and Sebastian, Beck, Cat power, Joan as a Police Woman, The Pulp, Gogol Borldello, Hiromi Uehara, Yo yo ma, Isobel Campbell, Joni Mitchell, Miles davis, The Tossers, The Mountain Goats, Bill Evans, Johnny Cash, Nina Simone, Stefano Bollani, Stan getz, Gilberto Jil, Caetano Veloso, Joao Gilberto....
books and Authors: Slaughterhouse n. 5 by Vonnegut, Fiesta by Hemingway, Voyage au bout de la nuit by Celine (best description of a sunset ever read in my life), Un uomo by Fallaci, What a carve up by J. Coe, Kafka, Kafka on the shore by Murakami, Amy Hampel, Sylvia Plath, Irvin Welsh, Calvino, Ammaniti...

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, France, Greece, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom

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