CURRENT MISSION

"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem"-krishnamurti

ABOUT ME

i'm a lover of life, a film junkie, and i am always trying to check out a new pub, or a new restaurant, a new recipe, or route or band and basically everything.

PHILOSOPHY

as I try to figure out what I want to do with my life, this is how I feel usually:
"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion." Jack Kerouac, On the Road.
Well...I like to think that I can offer some humor and pleasant company, maybe a dinner even?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was fortunate enough to be hosted by CS members on my travels two summers ago and the great experiences I had have made me a total believer and advocate of this project. Upon my return to the states, I hosted a number of visitors to LA and had a blast.
This past year I have been working a job that makes my schedule inopportune for hosting, but I am excited to surf again on my trip to France and Barcelona, and hopefully will be able to host within the near future.

Interests

cooking, reading, live music, being outside in the sun, frisbee (ultimate/frolf), yoga, tennis, cats & dogs, cinema, cuisines from all over, showing travelers places I love

• cats
• dogs
• cooking
• yoga
• running
• pub crawls
• movies
• reading
• music
• live music
• tennis

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Cidade de Deus, Amarcord, Goodfellas, Love Me if You Dare, Pulp Fiction, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Annie Hall, Casablanca, Fargo, Reservoir Dogs, The Big Lebowski, Office Space, Dirty Dancing, Cry Baby, Mallrats, Pink Floyd the Wall, The Godfather series, Stranger Than Fiction

Music: Stevie Wonder, Manu Chao, David Bowie, Tom Petty, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra. Live blues & jazz. GNR, the Killers, The Virgins, MGMT, Empire of the Sun, OAR. Rosenbaum, Chizh, russkiy bardi. So much more.

Books: Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer; D.H.Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover; Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo; Ayn Rand - We, the Living; Douglas Coupland; Anne Rice's Vampire chronicles; Kurt Vonnegut; Charles Bukowski; Tom Wolfe; Bill Bryson; Malcolm Gladwell

Teach, Learn, Share

i can teach you how to start cooking :-)
Or some phrases in Russian.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Hungary, Ukraine, United States

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