CURRENT MISSION

Understand Buddhism

ABOUT ME

I am curious. I love travelling.

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CS, for me, has changed travelling drastically, and for the much better.

I met incredible people I would have never met otherwise, and I just love the utopian idea that is behind couchsurfing.

(I think the internet has produced so much crap and not always changed our lifes to the better. there are only a few exceptions, and CS is one of them.)

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and I just discovered this and declared it to be my favourite fear:

anatidaephobia: the fear that somewhere, somehow a duck is watching you.

the anatidaephobic individual fears that no matter where they are or what they are doing, a duck watches.

YES! the coolest phobia ever! *QUACK!*

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PHILOSOPHY

In times like these travelling is the only way to stay alive and keep dreaming.

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*** In the end its not how many breaths you take, but how many times your breath was taken away. ***

** open mind ::: open source ::: open doors **

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

hostin'n'surfin'n'hostin'n'surfin....

and sometimes I organize a CS party at my place.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted lots of times in switzerland, basel (2006-08) and whenever possible back in berlin (2009-2011), and also now in NYC in 2012.

I surfed in lisbon in june/july 2006; in linz, austria in september 2006; in paris in autumn 2006; in lausanne in june 2007; in toulouse in february 2008; april/may 2008, in the US (in boston, ithaca, santa cruz and san francisco), in madrid in june 2008, january 2009 in mexico city, september 2009 in linz again, new year's 2009/10 in israel, april 2010 down south the american west coast from vancouver to portland to SF to LA, in summer 2010 in belgrade, serbia...

visited 36 states (16%)Create your own visited map of The World or Like this? try: Vendian

Interests

--> TRAVELING, of course!! //
Who lives sees much. Who travels sees more.

--> DJ'ing as my second self :
FRÄULEIN ANNA STAHLBUSCH
(which was the name of my great-great-grandmother...)

--> never stop dreaming

--> hanging around with friends, having a good dinner and wine wine wine wine and talking the whole night through...

--> running a non-commercial back-yard-gallery together with friends in berlin since several years:
http://www.kurt-im-hirsch.de

--> going to small live concerts

---> I like all kinds of independent cinema, super8, documentaries, animation; installation art and media art; drawings; any different cultures, languages, philosophies...

• arts
• documentaries
• concerts
• wine
• beer
• running
• partying
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• buddhist
• animation
• communications
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

*** MUSIC ***

yes, I do like punk rock.

and I do like kitsch, too.

and I like trash & pop.

(ok, in general, music is quite important for me... apart from hairy monsters!)

some bands I like:

JOY DIVISION
PULP
THE SOUND
THE WIRE
MICACHU AND THE SHAPES
IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS
BONAPARTE
TAXI GIRL
AMON TOBIN
YOUTH LAGOON
THE HORRORS
ANXIETEAM

plus, really weird stuff like
DIE ANTWOORD (...check it out!)

plus,
since some time I am into something that may be called a mixture of shoegazing / electroclash indie noise pop (if that exists...).

I recently discovered the canadian band HOLY FUCK which use all kind of experimental effect machines and even *film tapes* together with drums and guitars to produce their songs.
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS also has some cool songs.

a berlin band that I can recommend is KISSOGRAM. even if apparently they are not better in their live concerts than on their LP's, but they have some real cool songs.

but still, there is so much about music I like, we could discuss hours and hours about it listening to vinyls - from french music of the 80ies to all kinds of glamourous post-punk stuff --

and, newly and oddly enough for myself, I also like the berghain style minimal electro...

Another band I dicovered some time ago is a French band from the 80ies "RUTH" (the album from 1985: Polaroïd/Roman/Photo). It also contains a clever cover of She brings the rain by Can (another band I like). As far as I know this was the first cover of a Can piece recorded and published on a LP.

and last but not least:

ESCIMOS - www.escimos.de
The escimos are good friends of mine and I just love their popbeats! They terribly rock and they are cool guys to hang out with.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travellin' to mexico to get some SUN during European wintertime. a thing I will definitely repeat***

doin' a very spontaneous CS-roadtrip down the northern american west coast ---- from vancouver to los angeles ---- 2500 kilometers in a car together with really nice people ---

Teach, Learn, Share

I can show you how to never drink a beer without pouring it all over you.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, United States

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