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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English
  • 26, Male
  • Member since 2017
  • No occupation listed
  • University of the Arts, Utrecht
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

Simply put are my interests; to understand, be able to and refine thought and the world around me. Specifically put; I enjoy conversing, accompanied by a Dutch roller, beer/wine or, sober like a stone.. Clear and lucrative, slippering through the slippery slopes, the universal channels of shared attention.

I make music with a looper station, draw for my school, talk in front of audiences and play the teamsports fitnessing and swimming alone. I also meditate every day, in a very secular way.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

How do we normally break the surfing ice?
Maybe by doing things we actually like to do! I will take with me my looper station, so we can make a couchsurfing song! I can help you clean, or we can make a story together, cook together, make it a couchsurfing cookbook.. meditate together? Watch a lecture and discuss it afterwards?

The core of the project is to be vulnerable, and open for not knowing what's to come. There will be two directors, and I ain't bringing anybody with me ;)

I am also very curious.

If this is nothing for you, or you simply do not have time or space, suggest a friend who might like this!

Interests

  • arts
  • singing
  • meditation
  • music
  • guitar
  • philosophy
  • psychology
  • health
  • improvisation
  • bass
  • comedy
  • veganism
  • standup comedy
  • cooperation
  • cabaret
  • interests
  • improvisation theatre
  • secularism
  • looping
  • beatboxing
  • non-fiction books
  • david foster wallace
  • sam harris
  • philosophy of science
  • robert sapolsky
  • meta-humor
  • consequentionalism
  • susan blackmore
  • specifically

Music, Movies, and Books

A whole lot of music. My ear hears foremost old/neo soul, same goes for funk, r&b, hiphop, beats, experimental, off-grid music.

I like arthouse, obscure crate diggers, pulp, stoner flicks, (standup) COMEDY!

Reggie Watts is one of my biggest heroes.

I am trying to read more books. Am reading Homo Deus right now, form Yuval Harrari. Ordered a David Foster Wallace book recently. Also Sam Harris is high on my list. Behave from Robert Sapolsky will be my book for life.

For now I am watching a lot of lectures/non-fiction on YouTube, from scientists and philosophers, writers, thinkers. It varies widely.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-I ate way too much last night

-Writing about how amazing my life is

-It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down. Not that that mystical stuff is necessarily true.
The only thing that’s capital-T True is that you get to decide how you’re gonna try to see it.

Teach, Learn, Share

I like to be straight forward in a philosophical/epistemic responsible context.

What I Can Share with Hosts

loVe aND CrEAtivITy

Countries I’ve Visited

Curaçao, France, Greece, Guyana, Italy, Morocco, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands

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