CURRENT MISSION

boil away in agnosia to condense to a source. or some such thing.

ABOUT ME

i'm not entirely sure what to write, to be honest. ok, official stuff. i come from lithuania originally, yet at present i'm a phd candidate at uc berkeley doing philosophy. i'm particularly into psychology, psychiatry, linguistics, and the cognitive sciences in general, i suppose, although i believe that any area of knowledge is potentially highly intriguing, provided you dig sufficiently deep into it.
that's more or less the theorist part of me but i also do performance art and i'm fond of rather quirky stuff in general. among other things.
i can't tell which part of me would be most manifest upon meeting any particular person before it actually happens, there's always some mutual reactivity going on. in any case, we'll see.

PHILOSOPHY

'(...) Why do you live your life? Feelings? Thoughts?'

overwhelmed at the moment.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

avidly

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

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Interests

cognitive science, philosophy, psychiatry, neuroscience, the arts (in practice: contemporary dance, classical singing, photography, video; in theory: visual arts (especially painting), cinematography, literature, jazz (fond of free), classical music, opera, native folklore, theatre), nature (beauty), the thought processes of homo sapiens, language, evolution, space and time, matter, agnosia, so on and so forth, et cetera. maybe.

Music, Movies, and Books

a taste specimen:

tarr; tarkovsky; kieslowski; lynch; haneke; wong kar-wai; bergman; antonioni; fellini; classics in general; also things like 'primer'; 'synecdoche, new york'; 'la jetee'; so forth. http://mubi.com/users/1116860
peter brotzmann; joe mcphee; louis sclavis; sylvain kassap; john coltrane; jazzzz; otherwise arnold schoenberg, expressionism; john cage and suchlike; as well as gregorian chant; then persian, bolivian, burmese, mongolian, lithuanian, so on, folk music; and classical music, most (but not all) of it.
dostoyevsky (esp. 'crime and punishment'; and 'idiot' as well); chekhov; javier marias, anne carson, kafka; bulgakov; so on; then it's (auto)biographies; isadora duncan's 'my life' was something of a spurt of freedom; and specialized books on almost any subject.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

a tree

Teach, Learn, Share

yes, please.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bosnia and Herzegovina, England, Lithuania, Scotland, United States