CURRENT MISSION

breathing

ABOUT ME

Destroy fake limits,see faces, feel emotions, time wasting, recumbency, laughing, talking, silence, melody.

I work as a filmmaker and journalist on social topics, lately manly in Colombia: jonasbrander.com

I am doing music, german "abstract-rap" music. you can listen to my last records here: http://epilog.bandcamp.com/

My great passion is writing. I have a website, where I post some texts and poetry stuff. Of course in german.. : http://fehlfarbenfangen.de/

I love photography. Some of my pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hermesgottfenster/

PHILOSOPHY

I am collecting moments. Thats what life is about.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

When I have the possibility to, I always offer a couch. I love the idea of CS and the way it connects good people all around the world.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I met some of the best persons in my career as a human.

Interests

writing.music.books.films.travel.life.love.find new friends.love old friends...

• writing
• books
• poetry
• photography
• documentaries
• movies
• traveling
• music
• filmmaking

Music, Movies, and Books

music: totally depends on my mood lately a lot of neo-classical/ambient stuff like Nils Frahm, but it also could be Frank Zappa or abstract rap like Ceschi or beatstuff like Jon Hopkins or Robot Koch or noisy like Swans and Sonic Youth or or or....
movies: jim jarmusch, ulrich seidl, ingmar bergman, fassbinder, darren aronovsky, david lynch, fatih akin, john cassavettes, ari kaukismäki, wong kar wai, lars von trier, spike jonze, alexandro gonzales innaritu..on and on...film is one of me great passions.
books: I love to read, often books about politics, history and philosphy, but also novels and poetry. Last things I loved: 2666 from Bolano, Infinite Jest from David Forster Wallace.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

to breathe

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Greece, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, Germany, Switzerland