ABOUT ME

I am curious to learn new things, to meet new people, to share good experiences, good addresses and to visit new places. I am open-minded and easy doing. Serious and polite but avalaible for having fun or partying with good music and nice people !!
I appreciate being surprised by beautiful landscapes and I like taking pictures of buildings and landscapes.
Completely bilingual French and Spanish, I can help you if there is something you can't understand in one of this languages !

PHILOSOPHY

Respect people.
Treat people as you would like to be treated.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

The Couchsurfing concept allows to feel the beat and the rythm of a city/country in a better way than just being a mere tourist. I like receiving advices about places or particularities in a city/country that worth a visit. I also like sharing my good addresses with other travelers.

Interests

Music (Discovering new bands, going to gigs/festivals...) - Cinema (watching movies and participating in short-movies direction) - Photography (Lomography practice)
http://www.lomography.fr/homes/juan-rod/albums
- Geography (maps of countries and cities) - Swimming - Football culture (teams, stadiums, fans...) - Partying (bars with good music, clubbing)

• culture
• writing
• photography
• festivals
• partying
• clubbing
• movies
• music
• hunting
• soccer
• swimming
• cartography
• geography
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Mainly indie pop/rock (Talking Heads, My Bloody Valentine, The Stone Roses, Can, The Smiths, Orange Juice, Belle and Sebastian, ESG, The Jesus and Mary Chain, MGMT, Pixies, Cat Power),
and mixing pop/rock with electonic music (New Order, Primal Scream, Notwist, LCD Soundystem, Happy Mondays, The Charlatans, Caribou, Chemical Brothers, CSS, Massive Attack, Portishead, Death in Vegas, Lali Puna)
and then electronic music (Kraftwerk, Gui Boratto, Air, Pantha du Prince, Kompakt Records)

But also a lot of other things : The Clash, Michaël Jackson, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, The Velvet Underground, The Sex Pistols, David Bowie, Ennio Morricone, John Barry, Pink Martini, Gotan Project, Ray Baretto, Sergio Mendes, Art Blakey, Isaac Hayes, James Brown, Wu Tang Clan, Gangstarr, Calexico, René Aubry, Philip Glass, Vivaldi, Rodrigo, Narcisso Yepes, Manuel Cano, Juan Serrano

The list is so long...

Cinema : Wim Wenders, Pedro Almodovar, Michel Gondry, Quentin Tarentino, Claire Denis, Agnès Varda, Andrei Tarkovski, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Jim Jarmusch, Aki Kaurismaki, Walter Salles, Brian de Palma

Litterature : Paul Auster, Philippe Labro

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I participated in a short movie workshop with 20 other people. The idea was to make a short movie in 3 hours. After the writing phase, I was chosen to hold the camera for the movie shooting. At the end of the workshop, our movie was presented to us in a little room with a screen. At the back of the room, Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) was there watching our 10 minute-length movie. After that, we all had a picture with Gondry !
It was like my 15 minutes of fame !!