ABOUT ME

Currently I live in Mexico City for a while, working as an artist and preparing two large exhibitions.
Normally, I live in Groningen, the Netherlands, but try to get away as much as possible. While I am there, I enjoy going to the best music venue in the world (the VERA club) to screen print posters there and go to see shows. If im not at VERA, I like spending time with my friends at our book club and film club. For the rest I'm spending most of my time sketching, cutting, drawing, staring at the wall while thinking about possible (art) projects.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Not yet! Im completely new!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

no experience just yet...

Interests

music, arts, design, conversation, traveling, language, books, religion

• arts
• books
• design
• sketching
• clubbing
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

music: bright eyes, Elliot Smith, Jeffrey Lewis, David Dondero, Simon Joyner, the Mountain Goats, Fleet foxes, Bonnie Prince Billy, Bob Dylan, Desaparecidos, Deus, the Dodos, Blind Willy McTell, Godspeed you Black Emperor, Hank Williams, The Hickey Underworld, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Liars, M Ward, the Mars Volta, Monsters of Folk, My Morning Jacket, PJ Harvey (hey a woman!), Radiohead, Simon& Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, the Smashing Pumpkins, Titus Andronicus and sooo many more

movies: almost everything by Kubrick, Jarmusch, Hitchcock, Lynch, Michael Haneke and Roman Polanski. a few other titles (i know... the list is neverending... im probably forgetting my most favourite movies all along) Donnie Darko, Taxi Driver, ExistenZ, Modern Times, Control, Fahrenheit 451, Holy Motors, Midnight Cowboy, Evil Dead, High Noon, High Planes Drifter, Anyway the Wind Blows, the Polish Bride, La noche de las Girosoles... really any European art house movies.. I love what ive seen from Bela Tarr and
Tarkovsky... but I always feel as if i've seen so little... there is so much to see/learn/do...

books: and another list that could be endless, and still believe i read nothing... there we go:
Lolita, the Fountainhead, Perlmanns Silence (really really good.. please read this. its by Mercier), Narciss and Goldmund (Herman Hesse is amazing..), the Picture of Dorian Gray, What is the What, Moby Dick, La Nausee, practically everything by Michel Houellebecq (but i loved the poetic prose of his first novel), Bukowski, 1984, Brave New World, Slaughterhouse 5, Crime & Punishment, Moon Palace... etc etc....

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, Scotland, United Kingdom, United States