CURRENT MISSION

composing, reading, looking, listening

ABOUT ME

Out of cafés, I'd choose a rather quiet place where one can read or play a game; out of restaurants, I'd choose a small (or big) vegetarian or vegan one; I don't like cocktails, but I love wine, fresh fruit juices and rooibos or mint tea

PHILOSOPHY

Die Unwissenheit ist der Warheit näher als das Vorurteil (L.)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can show you some nice spots in Brussels and Ghent, good vegan restaurants, a nice bookshop (or two) (or three), ...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We lived in a house with two other friends and there often were people, friends of friends

Interests

classical music, literature, poetry, ecology, chess, scrabble, contemporary dance, nature, contemporary music, composing, ...

Music, Movies, and Books

Charlie Chaplin (The cure, Monsieur Verdoux, The rink, Modern times, ...), Intouchables, Bienvenu chez les chtis, War horse, The world is not enough, Gregory de la Cava, Hitchock, Monty Python, Wild strawberries (Bergman), Repulsion, Venus in fur, The pianist, The tenant (Polanski), A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence (Roy Andersson), La Giovinezza (Paolo Sorrentino), ...

Bach (violin sonatas, the art of fugue, Matthaeuspassie, Goldbergvariations,...), Schubert (Lieder, piano sonatas), Pärt, Beethoven (symphonies, piano sonatas), Monteverdi (Orfeo, L'incoronazione di Poppea), Mozart (symphonies, Lieder, sonatas,...), Gérard Grisey, Tristan Murail, Pierre Boulez, György Kurtág, ...

Steppewolf (Hesse), The picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde), Candide (Voltaire), Ecce homo (Nietzsche), Le petit prince (Saint-Exupéry), Schachnovelle (Zweig), De aanslag (Mulisch), Kaas (Elsschot), The old man and the sea (Hemmingway), Vaslav (Japin), Stories (Tchekhov), Nouvelles (Gogol), L'étranger (Camus), Hunger (Hamsun), A short history of progress (Ronald Wright), Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 1984 (George Orwell), Honger (Knut Hamsun), Hotel du Nord (Remco Campert), Doktor Glas (Hjalmar Söderberg), Holzfällen (Thomas Bernhard), ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Leaving my job and go to live in Northern Sweden for six months

Teach, Learn, Share

I can help you with piano, and if you like music theory I can learn you some contrapuntal techniques :-)
I would enjoy learning new languages, continue to learn swedish, some yoga techniques or a new (board) game, or any musical instrument...

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Croatia, England, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Sweden