ABOUT ME

A dreamy creature who loves surprising and being surprised.

PHILOSOPHY

Twenty years from now you will regret more the things that you didn't do than the ones you did.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Before moving to Switzerland, I hosted several CSers in my former flat in Italy and was myself a guest in Portugal and Switzerland. Ideally, I look for people with a shared interest in music, art, literature and films.

Interests

Sun, the color blue, discovering new music, seeing the ironic side of things, sleeping til late, going to the cinema, annoying my flatmates by badly learning to play the guitar, flea markets, film&music festivals, philosophy (particularly the analytical branch), yoga, critical legal studies, anthropology, nature, camping, comics, art, cats, vintage furniture, genuine people and things.

• cats
• arts
• books
• wine
• reading
• traveling
• music
• philosophy
• science
• nature
• vintage
• postrock
• art films
• shoegaze

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES

Lars von Trier, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Tsai Ming Liang, Andrej Tarkovskij, Wong Kar Wai, Ingmar Berman, Terry Gilliams, Aleksandr Sukurov, Lech Majewski, Jan Svankmajer, Pen Ek Ratanaruang, Federico Fellini, Pierpaolo Pasolini, Nanni Moretti, Elio Petri, Dario Argento, Mario Bava, Werner Herzorg, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Koji Wakamatsu, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Kitano, Miyazaki, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean-Luc Godard, Guy Maddin, Quay Brothers, Carlos Reygadas, Brillante Mendoza, Jodorovskiy, Lisandro Alonso....& MUCH more!

MUSIC

I'm a Radiohead generation child, with a taste for progressive-, psychy- and post-rocky sounds, mostly instrumental. Some (but only some) of the groups I like include joy division, sonic youth, the smiths, the velvet undergroud, pink floyd, my bloody valentine, mazzy star, blonde redhead, the doors, cocteau twins, apparat organic quartet, sigur ros, mum, royksopp, the knife, do make say think, bohren & der klub of ghore, asbestoscape, god speed you! black emperor, povarovo, the album leaf, the jesus and mary chain, the national, mono, the kilimanjaro darkjazz ensemble, the war on drugs, xiu xiu, pyrit, portishead, john coltrane, joan baez, koop, kraftwerk, mercury rew, miles daves, duke allington, foals, eluvium, explosions in the sky, mogway, kruder & dorfmeister, björk, low roar, mouse on mars, pulp, atlas sound, the antlers, the black angels, nils frahm, olafur arnalds, mondkopf, etc. etc..+ all kind of cryptic ambient, drone & dark-jazzy stuff. But I love to be musically surprised and am always open to new discoveries in pretty much any genre, from jazz to noise, to classical, to punk.

BOOKS:
Murakami , Cortazar, Dostojevsky, Hesse, Kundera, Borges, Fitzgerald, Svevo, Kurt Vonnegut, Bulgakov, Tanizaki, Hesse, Høeg, Saramago, Moravia, Laxness and more to be discovered.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Looking at the northern lights crossing the Milky Way from the black sand of an Icelandic beach.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can cook a tasty Ukranian borsh and vareniki and show you some hidden corners of Geneva.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Japan, Philippines, Portugal, Serbia, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Iceland, Italy, Switzerland, Ukraine