CURRENT MISSION

Smashing time!! >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czDYeM-tQ8

ABOUT ME

Salut les aminches! which means: Hello folks! well, I could say a lot about me, myself and I - maybe too much, the subject is not that fascinating after all!
I already told a little up here, in the "current mission", "occupation", and "education" sections, so I wouldn't want to repeat it, but: as for now I work in a public library in Créteil near Paris, France, I don't want to spend the rest of my life there, since I come from another French region (the Southwest, that looks and sounds sometimes closer to Spain even culturally, in my opinion...) that I really like; I only spent one year in the magnificent Toulouse for my studies, and it's really too short a stay! That is: the hazard of life drove me to the suburbs of Paris, and I live here for almost more than 10 years now. I love to travel... A few years ago I had a professional experience in journalism, I wrote a few articles - during 3 years, between 2003 and 2006 - for a French well-known rock magazine, so I've done a couple of interviews in Los Angeles and New York, also one in Stockholm... one in London... and many in Paris - it was really exciting to interview those artists (some of them very famous like Beck, Queens of the Stone Age, Marilyn Manson, The Hives, Elvis Costello...) for a few minutes in wonderful palaces on Sunset Boulevard - but the problem was: the record companies (according to their policy) didn't allow us to stay more than two or three days, what a shame... So I had brief glimpses of all these places, I took a few photos and I had to take a flight back home. But it was WAY COOL anyway! Well, enough for that section, I have to keep a little stuff for "interests", "personal philosophy", etc. I'll see you there folks.

PHILOSOPHY

Tough one. I guess I'm living it without planning too much, but there are always adjustments to make you know... I'm very conciliant, though. But hey! I have dreams too, and since a few years I try and make them true. I try.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As I explained in the "Couch description" section, I can't host anyone right now - so I just use this site to send couch requests to people around the world. I like to think I'm a good surfer, nice, funny, sympathetic, talkative or calmer at times, I always try to enrich myself by learning from others.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Blast! I guess I had to fill this form with the latter paragraph. Anyway, I wrote about my experience on Couchsurfing just above - so what about my participation to the "project"? Well I like it not to become a "project" in my life. I respect all the members here who like to consider it like this, but to me couchsurfing is a way of traveling around the world, a means rather than a "project". That doesn't mean that I'm not serious about it: as you can see with the few experiences I already shared with nice hosts in New Zealand, Spain, Scotland, Argentina, I think I'm a nice guy, I know it can seem odd to "squat" a perfect unknown's living place for a while, so I do my best to be the perfect guest, and I think it works... I think so. But then again, couchsurfing to me is not a philosophy or the law of a secret group (I'm not really into secret groups anyway), only a nice and respectful way of traveling and meeting people, one of the most beautiful that have been invented.

Interests

I'm the eternal aspiring writer - but this is honestly my true vocation. I know someday I will publish a book. I like to go rock climbing, also distance running, and cycling. I'd LOVE to live by the seaside, own a sailing a boat, and go sailing whenever I want to. This last one is a dream.

• culture
• writing
• books
• education
• running
• boating
• traveling
• socializing
• cycling
• sailing
• rock climbing
• teaching
• journalism
• law
• lakes

Music, Movies, and Books

FILMS: Le Fanfaron (Il Sorpasso) de Dino Risi ; Comme un chien enragé (At close range) de James Foley ; Mad Dog & Glory de John McNaughton ; La Bête humaine de Jean Renoir ; Down by law de Jim Jarmusch ; L'Homme sans passé d'Aki Kaurismäki ; Le Chien enragé d'Akira Kurosawa ; La Ballade sauvage (Badlands) de Terrence Malick ; L'Enfer est à lui (White heat) de Raoul Walsh... etc., etc., etc.
LIVRES: Don Quichotte de Cervantès ; La Conscience de Zeno d'Italo Svevo ; Le Moine de M.G. Lewis ; La Conjuration des Imbéciles de J.K. Toole ; Un nommé Jeudi de G.K. Chesterton ; Bartleby de Melville ; Le Château de Kafka ; Les Fruits du Congo d'Alexandre Vialatte ; Le Songe des héros d'A. Bioy Casares ; Jim Click ou la merveilleuse invention de Fernand Fleuret ; Le Troisième policier de Flann O'Brien ; Demande à la poussière de John Fante ; Martin Eden de Jack London ; La paie du samedi de Beppe Fenoglio... etc., etc., etc.
MUSIQUE: pop rock des 60s à aujourd'hui (Wire, Buzzcocks, Kinks, Easybeats, Todd Rundgren, Television Personalities, Swell Maps, Robyn Hitchcock, The Stranglers, Serge Gainsbourg, David Bowie, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Iggy Pop, Pixies, Frank Black, Jonathan Richman, Lee Hazlewood, Roy Orbison, Jeremy Jay, The Go-Betweens, The Chills, Prefab Sprout, Oneida, Jesu, The Saints, The Last... etc.), MPB (Caetano Veloso, Os Mutantes, Jorge Ben, Gal Costa, Chico Buarque, Edu Lobo, Rita Lee, Tom Zé, Nara Leão, Rogerio Duprat, João Gilberto... etc.), musique classique (Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Tchaïkovski, Brahms, Dvorak, Satie, Bartok, Villa-Lobos... etc., etc., etc.) ...et tout ce qui trouve grâce à mes oreilles!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Well I used to work for a rock magazine in France for 3 years, so I had the opportunity to travel a few times in the United States (mostly Los Angeles, once New York), also in London and Stockholm, in order to interview rock stars. That was cool. But I've once watched the sun rise above the cliff of Suancés in Cantabric Coast (Spain), the gorgeous lakes of Plitvice in Croatia when I was a kid, the Milford Sound and majestic Mitre Peak with unreal sunshine in Fjordland (New Zealand), I climbed the walls in ruins of Slains Castle who inspired Bram Stoker for his novel Dracula, near Aberdeen (Scotland), and every time I come back to my home town (Albi, in South of France, between Massif Central and Pyrénées), I have the great emotion to see the splendid tower of the cathedral Sainte-Cécile, made of large red bricks. And all this was as much cool.

Teach, Learn, Share

Anything. No seriously: I'm curious of everything, I only want to know about how people are living, and what makes them go on, what is important to them, their passions, tastes in culture, hobbies, etc. I have a lot to give myself.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

France

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