CURRENT MISSION

Trying to track down two very old Polish documentary filmmakers. Czy wiecie jak odszukac Kazimierz Karabasz albo Maksymiliam Wrocławski?

ABOUT ME

I have goals related to reading, writing and revolution and I'm always on the lookout for co-conspirators of one sort or another.

PHILOSOPHY

"What form do you suppose a life would take that was determined at a decisive moment precisely by the street song last on everyone's lips?" -Walter Benjamin

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

With a few exceptions, I've mostly been a surfer rather than a host. I'm pretty busy these days but I am sometimes able to meet up for coffee, a drink, a bike ride or a walk. I'll be much more available in the summer, so don't be afraid to contact me then.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Krakow, Venice, Florence, Rome, Sinalunga, Marseille, Arles, Barcelona, Strasbourg, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Amsterdam...Outside of this website I've surfed more couches than I can remember over the past several years. Thank you to strangers and friends (and strangers who've become friends).

Interests

literary theory, documentary film/literature, making bread, learning languages,gardening, hiking, native plants, psychogeography, continental philosophy, opera, communism, East/Central Europe, singing, old-time music, chansons francaises, 20th century avant-garde movements.

• writing
• literature
• singing
• documentaries
• coffee
• drinking
• gardening
• reading
• music
• opera
• cycling
• hiking
• track and field
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Tom Waits, Gillian Welch, Joni Mitchell, Edith Piaf, Bruce Springsteen, Andrew Bird, Nina Simone

Books: Marx, Hegel, Lukacs, Adorno, Benjamin, Raymond Williams, Susan Buck-Morss
Also,
Ragtime by Doctorow,Cinnamon Shops by Bruno Schulz, The Soccer War by Kapuscinski, The Life of the Automobile by Ehrenburg, The Night Visitor by B. Traven.

Movies:
Annie Hall, North by Northwest, Chinatown, Notorious, The Battleship Potemkin, The Bicycle Thief, Libertarias, Fitzcaraldo/The Burden of Dreams (I'm on a Herzog kick right not).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A couple of summers ago I visited my ancestral village in Poland.

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to practice French and Polish and learn Spanish. My latest mission is to learn to play the accordion, so any help with that would be greatly appreciated too.

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Poland, United States

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