CURRENT MISSION

journey to the end of the night!

ABOUT ME

Film-maker in the making, writer in the writing, hitch-hiker (sometimes) lost somewhere in the parallel universe... Big lover of the tropics, Italian architecture, coffee and people who are keen on literature and cinema.

PHILOSOPHY

Liberté, égalité, fraternité

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My home is open to everyone - I frequently host my friends and decided that I should do more - invite other people as well.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted several people and surfed couches in Italy, Spain, France, Morocco, Senegal, Mexico and Colombia.

Interests

I enjoy reading, learning languages, and take an interest in sociology and left-wing politics. Every now and again I write fiction, I'd really love to become a writer one day! Other than that, traveling, meeting new people, experiencing different cultures, karate, yoga, coffee, thé à la menthe, good cinema, etc...

• writing
• coffee
• yoga
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• journalism
• languages
• sociology
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Celine's 'Journey to the End of the Night', Stendhal!!!, Cortazar's 'La Rayuela', Marquez's '100 anos de soledad', Doctorow's 'Welcome to Hard Times', J.G.Ballard's 'The Concrete Island', Nietzsche, Baudrillard, Gombrowicz

Films: Godard, Truffaut, Fassbinder, Pasolini, Wojciech Jerzy Has, Bunuel, Cronenberg, Kieslowski; 'La Grande Bellezza', 'Porcile', 'La chinoise', 'Satyricon', 'Kynodontas', 'L'enfant sauvage', 'Waltz with Bashir', 'Apocalypse Now', 'There Will Be Blood'

Music: rock, jazz, electronic, classical, world music, Beirut, Air, Massive Attack, Herbie Hancock, St Germaine, Nick Cave, Marilyn Manson, Muse, RHCP, Amadou & Mariam, Modena City Ramblers, System of a Down, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In London I lived not far from where Marx is buried. One day I went to the cemetery and realized Marx is buried next to Herbert Spencer. Now that's quite amazing in itself (for both Marx and Spencer), but the real amazing thing was when another friend attracted my attention to the fact that one of the leading retailers in the UK takes its name - most certainly unintentionally and unrelatedly - after the two great thinkers (with a slight change in spelling)... Marx and Spencer's revenge?!

Teach, Learn, Share

Languages, sociology, enthusiasm, cinema

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Senegal, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Italy, Poland, Spain