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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Travel and meeting local traditions whit local people
ABOUT ME
down to earth, hard working, imaginative, creative, romantic, funny, sarcastic, a good friend, gee, you'll need to know me to make your own impression(hrad to discribe yourself), but i promise it won't be a bad one
PHILOSOPHY
everybody is a star!!!!
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
none, first time
Interests
Photography.....it's my passion, reading and indie music(icelandic bands)
- photography
- reading
- traveling
- music
Music, Movies, and Books
Indie movies and foreign movie such as some favorite movies (kinda hate the hollywood mainstream movie...they suck ass!)....."La Haine", "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind","Amores perros", "Millions","Lock stock and two smoking barrels", " Y tu Mama Tambien", " The 25th Hour","Swimming Pool", "Dreamers", "City Of God", "Howl's Moving Castle", "Mala Educacion", "Crash", "Amelie", "Paradise Now","Thesis", "Kids", "Trainspotting", "El callejon de los milagros", "American history X", "The Tripleds of Belleville", "Big fish", "Clockers", "Mi familia", "Pi", The science of sleep", "Battle in heaven","9/11","Battle of Algiers","Los amantes del circulo solar","Princesas","L'Auberge Espagnole", Sea Inside", Run Lola Run", "Memento", "Open Your Eyes", "The Child", "Thumbsucker"
in regards music, well my favorite bands would be two icelandic bands: Amiina, and Sigur Ros. but here is a list of some band that i like:
Sigur Ros, The Polyphonic Spree, Figurine, Manu Chao, Imogen Heap, The Aracade Fire, Marques Wyatt, Miguel Miggs, Mark Farina, Belanova, Sidestepper, Matisyahu, Bob Marley, Frou Frou, Les Nubians, THe Streets, Dizzy Rascal, Travis, Cafe Tacuba, Immortal Technique, Chemical Brothers, Nikcodemus, Nortec Collective, Le Tigre, M83, Keane, Bjork, The 88, She Wants Revenge, Lizz Wright, The New Pornographers, David Gray, Royksöpp, Louis Vega, Feist, Aqualung, Thievery Corporation, Kings of Convinience, M.I.A, Nouvelle Vague, Amos Lee, Bloc Party, Anubian Lights, Louis XIV, Trashcan Sinatras, Wilco, Moving Units, Pink Martini, Bebel Gilberto, The Helio Sequence, The Rapture, The Roots, The Strokes, Ben Harper, Zap Mama, Brazilian Girls, Ozomatli, Peter Tosh, James Brown, Lost Boys, Big Pun, Heltah Skeltah, Boot Camp Click, J5, 2Mex,Gnarls Barkley, Daft Punk, Social Broken Scene, Amiina,, Mum, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, Spoon, Grand National, Francisco Cespedes, Juan Mclean, Seu Jorge, The Most Serene Republic, Breakestra, Mylo, The Presets, Psycho Realm, The Specials, Telepopmusik, Tom Vek, The Sounds, Ulrich Schnauss, Tricky, The Section Quartet, Kronos Quartet, Onerepublic, Shy-Fx.
Now i guess i have to talk about book.....well i'm part mexican(african-american and mexican, a total mud) i love latinamerican writers such as Pablo Neruda, Ruben Dario, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Castaneda, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, among others, i also like Milan Kundera, Antoine saint exupery, Nathaniel Hawthorne. and some other writer that i can rembere at this moment
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
meeting different people trhoughout my travels.......jumped out off a moving train in poland!!!!
Teach, Learn, Share
Teach Photography. First aid(hence i'm a paramedic) and how to smile even bigger!!!
Countries I’ve Visited
Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Guatemala, Iceland, Italy, Malaysia, Poland, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom
Countries I’ve Lived In
Mexico, United States