CURRENT MISSION

Carpe diem et carpe noctem

ABOUT ME

Perchance, to dream? I am 31 going on 85. A Comparative Literature Graduate, Historic Preservation Advocate.

I am an introverted/extroverted, isolated/social, over-analytical/dreamer, and pantheist who is into indie rock, melodic metal, & Baroque music, though I hold nothing against alternative & grunge. I enjoy studying Art (its history, elements, & plain grandeur); & Literature (anything from Medieval writings to the Romantics & Victorians, to the Latin American Boom to the Modern Novella ... name it and I'll probably de-construct it!)

Also: I LOVE chocolate and have a mild obsession with stars...but that's okay. Oh! And I'm currently learning how to play the violin. {Yay}

PHILOSOPHY

The more I live and learn, the more I understand that my personal philosophy and views are quite parallel to those of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I think it's safe to say I'm a decent surfer and a good [nomadic] host.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I truly believe that CS is probably the best traveling and hosting community out there. My first trip to Europe would not have been what it was had I not been hosted by such wonderful people. It makes for a culturally rich experience, for not only do you see what you must, but also, you get to see what you, perhaps otherwise, might have missed.

Interests

So much to say, so, let's sum it up: Anne rice, Architecture, Art, Art Deco, Art History, Astronomy, Bows, Brocades, Cellos, Cinematography, Cords, Corsets, Egyptology, Film Noir, Foreign Films, German Expressionism, Goth, Guitars, History, Illuminated Manuscripts, Ink, Literature, Magic, Museography, Museology, Music, Neil Gaiman, Notes, Paper, Photographic Journalism, Photographic Surrealism, Photography, Photomontage, Physics, Piercings, Poetry, Prose, Romanticism, Stripes, Tattoos, Tori Amos, Vampires, Velvet, Victorians, Vintage, Violas, Violins, Zombies.

• arts
• literature
• poetry
• architecture
• photography
• tattoos
• piercings
• chocolate
• movies
• traveling
• magic
• music
• violin
• art history
• astronomy
• history
• journalism
• physics

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
Amélie, A Tale of Two Sisters, Battle Royale, Chasing Amy, Clerks I & II, Dawn of the Dead, Dracula, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ever After, Edward Scissorhands, El laberinto del fauno, Farinelli, From Hell, Gladiator, Gloomy Sunday, Ju-On, Interview W/the Vampire, Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, Labyrinth, Lain, La Reine Margot, Le Pacte des Loups, Haibane Remnei, Mulholland Dr., Nosferatu, Pettite Cosette, Quills, Ringu, Snatch, Silent Hill, Sleepy Hollow, The Crow, The Eye, The Night of the Living Dead, 28 Days Later, The Last Unicorn, Valmont, Vampire Hunter D, Volver, Y tu mamá también, Hablé con Ella, El Orfanato

Music:
Beirut, Tristania, Within Temptation, Nightwish, Haggard, Unto Ashes, Voltaire, Lacuna Coil, Virgin Black, Mors Syphilitica, Peccatum, Dark Moor, Leaves' Eyes, Epica, Therion, Tiamat, Emilie Autumn...among others And: Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Philip Glass, David Bowie, Yann Tiersen, Placebo, Pink Floyd, The Nekromantix...etc.

Books:
Many, specially the works of: E. Bronte, John Donne, Coleridge, John Keats, Mary Shelly, Thomas Hardy, R. W. Emerson, William Wordsworth, Dante, Poe, Chateaubriand, Charles Baudelaire, Rilke, Paul Verlaine, Tolstoy, T.S. Eliot, Paul Celan, Stéphane Mallarmé, Friedrich Nietzsche, ...and the contemporaries Neil Gaiman, Annie Rice, Sarah Waters, among others.

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Germany, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Puerto Rico, United States

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