I am Marco, born and lived in Milan for long, now in Berlin for 15 years. I am focusing a lot more on photography these days, about to open a decent darkroom and I am running a screen printing lab, finishing an old film project, while working here and there and coaching basketball teams, female basketball in the last 8 years indeed.

I sang in a loud and annoying band called The Disgrazia Legend (www.thedisgrazialegend.com)
I love to travel, play shows, meet new faces and see new places, be it the the big cities or the small unknown villages. I like to hang out with friends. I played basketball myself since I was 5. I studied at the Milan State University, my major was Film theory, then I moved to Germany for whatever reason. I also worked as a web/graphic designer for many years and in the music industry, sometimes it was fun, other times a pain in the ass, hence me not doing it anymore.

What else? well, I like movies, old movies too, documentaries, history, poetry and to write down my memories for the future wasted generations. The rest of my life is full of scary secrets.. :)

CURRENT MISSION

keep on writing, keep on filming and researching. A lazy perfectionist filmmaker with low tolerance for compromise and for overestimated low standards is frankly one of the worst mix ever. But then again we are who we are, we can evolve a bit though, I guess.

PHILOSOPHY

I like to meet new people from different cultures, late night discussions, walks around my city and other cities, silent nights passed in old historical areas, I'm friendly and I'm always down to help nice people, as much as I can, it depends on the schedule of course. I like people who share their inner dreams and views, people who are open-minded and aware of what's going on in this world and develop a political consciousness.
I believe in a DIY ethic and in mutual help, I don't dig snobbies and yuppies, actually I try to spend my time with people that inspire me and have something interesting to say/share.
I love hiking and exploring the mountains and the seas, I am often with my dog in the forests in and out Berlin, but definitely not as much as I should and she wants :)

I hate doing what everybody does and I try to keep it as a principle, without being too tough about it.

On a side note my humor is a bit sarcastic and bitter/outspoken at times, it's not that bad, but apparently some people don't like this kind of jokes, so be aware! it's not my fault, it's just the way I am, silly and crazy sometimes. Marty Feldman and John Belushi are two fundamental role models in my life, so to speak, and I live in Germany, not that easy ;)

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

sleep on couches, let people sleep on my couch, drink beers with foreign visitors, I occasionally drink their beer too, but that's the purpose.. "sharing" right?

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Here and there around europe, alone or with my band.
I was a member of hospitalityclub as well maaaany years ago, so I traveled through that also. nice memories all around.

兴趣

Ouch, read above. Cooking, did I say I love cooking and eating well? There you go.

• poetry
• singing
• graphic design
• photography
• beer
• walking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• sports
• basketball
• soccer
• history
• film photography

音乐、电影和书籍

MOVIES:
many and more, but surely those of John Cassavetes, Orson Welles, Visconti, Fellini, Sergio Leone, Samuel Fuller, Antonioni, Rossellini, M. Monicelli, A. Resnais, Truffaut, J.L. Godard, I. Bergman, S. Kubrick, D. Lynch, Leni Riefenstahl, J. Vigo, A. Hitchcock, W. Allen, M. Scorsese, Spike Lee, David Cronenberg, Polanski, W. Wenders, Fassbinder, M. Cimino, Tim Burton, G.V. Sant, Tarkovsky, Miranda July and many more.
Oooold movies from the 20's/30's are an endless source of inspiration and learning, like german, French and Russian oldies, even though you have to be really awake to watch some of them ;-)

some titles..
Hiroshima Mon Amour, Gloria, Minnie&Moskowitz, Blade Runner, La Dolce Vita, Frankenstein JR, Brancaleone, Mulholland Drive, Death in Venice, Pump Up The Volume, Goodbye Lenin, Singles, The commitments, History of violence, Chinatown...

MUSIC:
a lot of very different music... punk rock, noise rock, trip hop, soul, noisecore, lounge and ambient, drone, songwriters, folk, americana or however you call it.. from Goldfrapp to Neurosis, up to Morricone and down to Bad Religion, passing through Emiliana Torrini, Fiona Apple, Agnes Obel and Metric. Why not Nick Cave, Radiohead, Portishhead and Blonde Redhead, but then also Majority Rule, Mare, Swans and Converge and too many more to mention...

BOOKS: oh no this too? Many of them, a lot of books on photography and cinema and many classics, there are so many still to be discovered, I am reading Camus, Buzzati and finishing a Sartre book I keep restarting so far.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

I guess surviving a couple of accidents, and coming out in one piece from stupid mistakes. hitch hiking around europe plenty of times, great concerts in little tiny villages, festivals, hiking trips up the mountains and what not

教，学，和分享

I can teach one or 2 things, i can learn a Million, maybe more. I can share all the will and interest in learning them.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

a nice walk, a good meal, some cool spots in the city, a bike and who knows what the day will bring our way

我游览过的国家

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United States

我居住过的国家

Germany, Italy

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