ABOUT ME

A simple person. In a very complicated way.

PHILOSOPHY

"There's no sugary cliche. Most folk don't know who we are, what we do or how we do it... let alone want to pay us for it. I never want to take this for granted, so I try to keep motivations simple, real, positive. If I only scrape out a living, at least it's a living worth scraping. If there's no future in it, this is a present worth remembering. For fires of happiness or waves of gratitude... for everything that brought us to that point in life, to that moment in time to do something worth remembering with a photograph or a scar. I feel genuinely lucky to hand on heart to say I love what I do. And I may never be a rich man but if I live long enough, I'll certainly have a tale or two for the nephews. And I dig the thought of that." Mickey Smith

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Trying to finish my college, find a job, pay a rent and have my own apartment with a bed for me and a spare bed for couchsurfers. I'm not succeeding, dough.

Interests

Reading, watching movies, writing, art in general, taking walks, hiking, drawing, music, drinking coffee, tea, beer, conversation about meaning of the life (42!), writter's blocks and getting rid of writter's block, dark humor, passionate people who love what they do even if it means being the Big Lebowski and doing nothing.

• arts
• writing
• books
• singing
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• coffee
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• hiking
• history
• languages
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

books: The Stranger and The Plauge by Camus, Hitchhiker guide, Reiner Maria Rilke, Motel Chronicles by Sam Shepard, Thomas Pynchon, Gabirel Garcia Marquez, Ernesto Sabato, Raymond Carver, W. B. Yeats, poems by Charles Bukowski, The Princess Bride, Thomas Bernhard and if you continue I will never stop....

films: Stalker by Tarkovski and Tarkovski in general, films by Wong Kar Wai, Pi, The Separation, Persona and Bergman in general, White Ribbon and Haneke in general, Dr Strangelove and Kubrick in general, Shotgun Stories, Celebration by Vitnerberg and some other films by danish geniuses, and many many others...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Decided to travel as much as I can. It's not very original, but it's amazing for me.

Tried to learn old-irish. Boy, that was an amazing mistake.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can go on and on about languages, art, books, movies, music, history, philosophy, science...
And I can teach you how not to cook, dance, drive, sing, and some other things I'm terrible at, but I still like doing them.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I don't have problem sharing food. Even the Jaffa cakes.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Croatia