CURRENT MISSION

Save the world and penguins

ABOUT ME

I am quite calm and reserved person. I like both to listen and talk about the wide variety of subjects. Exploring the fabric of societal rules and conventions fascinates me, so sometimes I may raise some uncomfortable topics.
I am idealistic, romantic, quick thinker, I love challenges. I love to sleep like there is no tomorrow; listen to smokey jazz that melts the structure of reality around you; watch films that inspire you to abandon whatever you have or plunge your psyche into dark abyss; read good books that make you to forget to eat, drink or whatever promises and obligations you had to meet; do some creative thinking.
I might be quite brush and unreliable, though I really try to mend those parts of my personality.
I like to travel and hate feeling like a tourist. Unfortunately, I rarely travel nowadays due to the workload.

PHILOSOPHY

O universo sempre conspire a favor de quem quer realizar um sonho

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host people when I can, I tell about CS to my friends and acquaintances.
I know, when I host or I am hosted through CS, that I represent not only myself personally, but the whole ideology of couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far only positive! I met good people and experienced new places on a more immediate level.

Interests

Evolutionary processes that shape anatomy and behaviour. I play badminton regularly.

• books
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• jazz
• badminton
• anatomy
• history
• languages
• neuroscience
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

I regularly watch films of different kind: old and new, famous and obscure, documentary and unrealistic, boring and breathtakingly exciting, complex and simple, short and long.

Some favourite directors of mine are: Ernst Lubitsch, Alain Resnais, Kim Ki-duk, Paul Thomas Anderson, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Jose Padilha, Wes Anderson

Mostly my playlist consists of indie, jazz, bossanova, pop, jazzy hip-hop records.
As I grow older I listen more and more to jazz and experimental electronic music, also modern classical. Many musicians only release one or two good albums, so the names of artists I listen to are constantly in flux.

Lambchop is probably the greatest band you never heard about, here is your chance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jfaqxcuebs

Your can learn more from my last.fm profile http://www.last.fm/user/laszlokovacs

Books: Kundera, Murakami, Pavic, Pynchon, Barnes, various history and anthropology books.
Roberto Bolano and Karl Ove Knausgård were the most influential writere for me in the last couple of years. Granta magazine is a great source of new writing. Marginal revolution is my favourite blog. I try to read science papers daily, mostly in neuroscience and psychology.
I try to keep track on what books I read, not very diligently though and I put them on Booktracker app on my Facebook. I started it long time ago and since there is no automatic exporting feature to Goodreads, I cannot effectively share what I am reading and I am too lazy to migrate.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Making a rat giggle, but actually every moment is amazing and I do not reflect much on what are best or most amazing. Really, I have no idea. I do not try to make a history. I do not like taking pictures or keep diary either, if something fades from my mind with the passage of time, there is the next breath to take.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you many things psychology, some neuroscience, semiotics, Estonian, Russian languages

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Morocco, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Sweden, Tunisia, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Estonia, Japan, Sweden, United States

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