CURRENT MISSION

To be a bit more like Camus' Sisyphus

ABOUT ME

Kid with the crazy hair and glasses who drinks too much coffee when possible. Spent the best summer of my life with good company, best friends, fun nights filled with wine and philosophical debate on porches in a picturesque beach town before I up and left a limbo life for a much needed expansion of ideas. Currently roaming around a crazy polar opposite place and culture assessing how much I should be myself and how much needs to be censored.

PHILOSOPHY

Child of the French mind and struggles with a leaning towards pragmatism, individualism, and ever-lasting pursuit of true happiness.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Opening my humble apartment in a cool little section of Azerbaijan to nice people. And, hopefully, to be treated to the same when the time comes.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted some neat and random travelers exploring this little known land. It's been fun.

Interests

Jams, (library) books, TV on DVD, NPR, This American Life, Spike, philosophy, existentialism, photography, painting, traveling, words, knowledge, truth, honesty, sarcasm, cynicism, aggression, opposites, creativity, perspective, debates, conversation, ethics, driving, ambient sounds, the mandolin, the beach, happiness, objectivism, scrabble, board games, cooking, rice, chopsticks, Korean dramas, coffee, pillows, stuffed animals, old book stores, finding things, nights that I never want to end, my loves, other stuff.

• animals
• culture
• books
• photography
• ethics
• cooking
• wine
• coffee
• drinking
• board games
• tv
• traveling
• painting
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Third Eye Blind, Kings of Leon, Lydia, Damien Rice, Mew, M83, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Alexi Murdoch, Annuals, The Frames, Beirut, Eels, Explosions in the Sky, Built to Spill, Glen Hansard, The Clash, The Cure, The Smiths, Sufjan Stevens, Nickel Creek, Dashboard Confessional, Bright Eyes, Aqualung, Band of Horses, Iron and Wine, The Decemberists, The Thrills, Jurassic 5, Stars of Track and Field, Aqueduct, Blonde Redhead, Stars, Jason Collett, Young Galaxy, Broken Social Scene, Coco Rosie, Cat Power, Kill Hannah, Brand New, The Beatles, Beach Boys, The Eagles, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Sigur Ros, Death Cab for Cutie, Oasis, Smashing Pumpkins, more.

Movies: Garden State, The Science of Sleep, Secretary, Donnie Darko, The Breakfast Club, Half Nelson, Once, I Heart Huckabees, That Thing You Do!, In Search of a Midnight Kiss

Books: Atlas Shrugged, The Catcher in the Rye, The Fountainhead, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Myth of Sisyphus, Nausea, The Harry Potter series, The Great Gatsby, Blink, The Tipping Point, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Killing Yourself to Live, A Man Without a Country, The Secret History, Geek Love. A lot of non-fiction.

Teach, Learn, Share

Because life is finite and, in the end, you can count it and it can all be calculated. In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that’s what makes life hopeful.

Countries I’ve Visited

Georgia, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Azerbaijan, United States