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PLEASE NOTICE THAT I DO NOT HAVE A SMARTPHONE ("Really?" Really!), so it could take me 12, 24 or 48 hours to answer you the very first time.

DUE TO THE... EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH OF OUR DAUGHTER ON 19/02/2018, WE HAVE BEEN A BIT MORE BUSY THAN BEFORE. :-)) SOMEDAY, WE WILL HOST AGAIN.
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I SHOULD TAKE PICTURES OF OUR COUCH, I KNOW...
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ABOUT ME

Half shy half shameless, nerdy, frenchy (which means snobish in a good way of course ^^), impatient, attentive, unswervingly curious about things that nobody considers but me - and even convinced that they're absolutely important.
Don't miss humour (the one which often falls flat). Not a clubber but i trully enjoy hanging out with various friends - what I do not do enough... Try to test every kind of food and cuisine that God has developped. Wander in Paris (where I used to live) streets, spend half of my wages in japanese restaurants, drink cocktails with worrying colors inside. And of course share these useless things with my beloved girlfriend.

And I've probably repeated that in another section : i'm a cinéphile. It is not a hobby, but a true and deep passion. I am a kind of wannabe music buff too (jazz, ambient, indie folk, washing machine sounds, some pop - especially 60's but not exclusively - and a bit of classical...)

Oh, and as you can guess when reading this too long description: i'm indeed Sagittarius with an Aquarius ascendant.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

A couple of friends explained me the concept of this website - a loooong time ago...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfers who endured my presence as a host :

°°°°° IN PARIS °°°°°°
* 15-18 April 2012 : Tanya & Kirill (Russia)
* 22-24 April 2012 : Guntis & Kitti (Latvia)
* 27-29 May 2012 : Sina (Germany)
* 16-18 June 2012 : Juliane & Maria (Denmark)
* 19-20 June 2012 : Alexa (US)
* 03-06 July 2012 : Asia & Asia (Poland)
* 18-20 July 2012 : Lesha & Olga (Belarus)
* 21-22 July 2012 : Jenny (US)
* 22-24 July 2012 : Mechulinka (Czech)
* 02-04 Aug 2012 : Valentin (Russia)
* 05-07 Aug 2012 : Marrit & Marrieke (the Netherlands)
* 31-02 Sept 2012 : Vici (Spain)
* 08-12 Sept 2012 : Chelsea (US)
* 02-04 Oct 2012 : Alisha & Claire (US)
* 08-10 Oct 2012 : Aga & Krzys (Poland)
* 11-12 Oct 2012 : Lilla (Hungary)

* 12-14 Jan 2013 : Alex & Penny (Taiwan)
* 16-18 Jan 2013 : Dahyun & Smile (Korea)
* 12-13 March 2013 : Sarmad (Syria)
* 15-19 March 2013 : Sandra & Katka (Slovakia)
* 22-24 March 2013 : Viktorija (Lithuania)
* 24-25 March 2013 : Anna (US)
* 22-23 April 2013 : Zoë (Netherlands)
* 27-29 April 2013 : Audrey without Paul (Indonesia/US)
* 2-4 May 2013 : Stefan & girlfriend (Serbia)
* 27-29 May 2013 : Nat (Russia/Lithunia/UK)
* 1-7 June 2013 : Soledad (Argentina)
* 3-5 July 2013 : Bruna (Brazil)
* 5-8 July 2013 : Olga (Australia/Russia)
* 15-17 July 2013 : Jordan & Kelsey (US)
* 21-23 July 2013 : Emilia (Argentina)
* 25-27 July 2013 : Lassi (Finland)
* 29-30 July 2013 : Dan & Arseniy (Russia)
* 28-29 Sept 2013 : Silvia (Italy)
* 7-10 Oct 2013 : Ximena (Colombia)

°°°°° IN MONTELIMAR °°°°°°
* 17-18 April 2014 : Stephan (Germany)
* 19-20 June 2014 : Niklas (Germany)
* November 2014 : Jean-Simon (Canada, Québec)

* April 2015 : Cédric (Somewhere in Normandie, France)
* 01-02 October 2015 : Martin (Brno, Czech Rep.)

°°°°° IN AIX-EN-PROVENCE °°°°°°
* 24-25 June 2017 : Midori (NYC, USA)
* 3-5 August 2017 : Seval (Glasgow, Scotland)

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Hosts who endured my presence as a couch/bedsurfer:
- 14-16 Aug 2012 : Mechulinka & family (Prague, Czech Rep)
- 16-17 Aug 2012 : Michaela (Prague, Czech Rep)
- 19-20 Aug 2012 : Nikola (Karlovy Vary, Czech Rep)
- 20-22 Aug 2012 : Veronika (Pilsen, Czech Rep)
- 22-23 Aug 2012 : Pavel (Ceske Budejovice, Czech Rep)
- 23-25 Aug 2012 : Helena (Vienna, Austria)
- 25-26 Aug 2012 : Romana (Vienna, Austria)
- 11-14 Nov 2012 : Vici (between Alicante and Valencia, Spain)

- 9-12 May 2013 : Zoë (around Eindhoven, Netherlands)
- 16-17 May 2013 : Marine & Thomas (Caen, France)
- 18-19 May 2013 : Amanda (Stockholm, Sweden)
- 19-20 May 2013 : Aurora (around Stockholm, Sweden)
- 21-24 May 2013 : Gundemar (Gotland region, Sweden)
- 24-25 May 2013 : Susana (Nyköping, Sweden)
- 03-06 Aug 2013 : Narius & Sandra (Vilnius, Lithuania)
- 06-08 Aug 2013 : Sandra (Jonava, Lithuania)
- 08-10 Aug 2013 : Aulerija (Klaipeda, Lithuania)
- 10-11 Aug 2013 : Milda's family (Šeduva, Lithuania)
- 11-12 Aug 2013 : Sniega & family (Šiauliai, Lit.)
- 12-14 Aug 2013 : Marija (Riga, Latvia)
- 14-16 Aug 2013 : Liene (Riga, Latvia)
- 16-18 Aug 2013 : Ragne (Tartu, Estonia)
- 18-21 Aug 2013 : Marie (Tallinn, Estonia)
- 21-23 Aug 2013 : Janne (Leedri, Saaremaa, Estonia)
- 26-29 Aug 2013 : Lassi & Johanna (Järvenpäa, Finland)
- 29-31 Aug 2013 : Katriina (Lusto, Finland)
- 31-02 Sept 2013 : Kaisa (Tallinn, Estonia)

- 19-21 May 2015 : Bungo (Sapporo, Japan)
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Interests

Eat bulgogis, make salacious jokes or wordplays and share them with my friends, be deeply moved by a Minnelli's melodrama, spaghetti carbonara, play badminton, watch the FC Barcelona winning against el Real de Madrid, Jerry Seinfeld, swallow octopus sashimis bolt upright, Charles Mingus double-bass, write some ciné critics sometimes, nanarland.com, lequipe.fr

• music
• jazz
• badminton
• cinema
• manoel de oliveira

Music, Movies, and Books

That's the point !

MOVIES : Let's name some directors, it'll be quicker.
Maurice Pialat, Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, Ozu, Vincente Minnelli, Jacques Rivette, John Ford, Jacques Demy, Terence Malick, Eric Rohmer, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Chris Marker, Manoel de Oliveira, Alain Resnais, Hitchcock, Jean Renoir, Jia Zhangke, Bergman, Weerasethakul, David Lynch, Hong Sang-soo and so many films...
For more details ==> http://rateyourmusic.com/film_collection/Loryniel/recent/

MUSIC :
- Pop : The Beatles, Serge Gainbourg, Seefeel, Stereolab, Kings of Convenience, Air, The Mamas and the Papas, The Free Design...
- Folk : José Afonso, Nick Drake, Duncan Browne, Jackson C. Frank, Joanna Newsom, Harry Nilsson, Dylan (of course), Robbie Basho, Bonnie Prince Billy, Bill Callahan, M. Ward, James Blackshaw, some Malian artists (Ali Farka Touré, Toumani Diabaté, Ballaké Sissoko...), Yo la Tengo (which is actually more an indie rock band)...
- Jazz : Charles Mingus, Alice Coltrane and some of her husband's works, E.S.T., Bill Evans, Pharoah Sanders, Anouar Brahem, McCoy Tyner, Henri Texier, Miles Davis, The Necks...
- New wave & Post-punk : Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Joy Division
- Classical : Debussy, Chopin, Mozart, Philip Glass, Gavin Bryars...
- Electro (techno, house, electronica, krautrock) : Four Tet, Autechre, Kraftwerk, Amon Tobin, Aphex Twin, Radiohead's Kid A...
- Ambient & Drone : Deaf Center, Fennesz, Murcof, Oren Ambarchi...
- "Avant-garde" : The Velvet Underground, Alva Noto, The Books, Meredith Monk, Keith Fullerton Whitman...
For more details ==> http://rateyourmusic.com/collection/Loryniel/recent/

BOOKS : mainly comics - i have to confess that i don't read enough essays and novels, especially recent and non-French ones -, but also :
- The Plague (Camus)
- Candide (Voltaire)
- Empire of signs (Barthes)
- Tristes tropiques (Levi-Strauss)
and comics :
- Tatsumi's
- some Taniguchi's
- Tezuka's
- Joe Matt's perversions
- Marc-Antoine Matthieu's obsessions
- all pieces of art by Christophe Blain, one of the most vibrant genious alive.
and many other ones...

SERIES : gonna be short, cause i don't watch much.
- Seinfeld
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Twin Peaks
- Paranoid Agent
- Louie
- La maison des bois, Pialat's Masterpiece among other masterpieces.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A week in Tasmania in a Hyundai Getz. (March 2009)

Teach, Learn, Share

Teaching ? Errrr... My French is not so bad...
Hmmmm, perharps some japanese sentences too : toi re wa doko des ka ? Selo, ichi, ni, san, shi, go, roku, nana, hachi, ryu, ju ?
My Frenglish is a basic and acceptable French Frenglish, as you can read.

Learning ? Actually, Portugese is the one I'd really like to master. Italian, too. Write Amharic, the man-who-does-gymastics alphabet : ደ ድ ጵ ሮ ኞ ጲ. But why not the other ones ?

What I Can Share with Hosts

Cannot display it publicly.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Guadeloupe, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Martinique, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France

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