CURRENT MISSION

Quest of knowlegde

ABOUT ME

I am an English Teacher and a PhD in English literature. I like hosting people, although I don't always have time to be a tour guide. I like philosophy, literature, underground culture in its various forms: graffiti, comic books, punk music, alternative lifestyles, eastern mysticism, art, etc.

PHILOSOPHY

I like reading Osho, Lao Tzu, Nietzsche, the Bible, Ramana Maharshi, Maharishi, Žižek, Derrida, Foucault, Morton, Harman, and the writers like McCarthy, Atwood, Borges, etc.

"By space the universe comprehends and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world."

Perché sono iscritto su Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I don't have a lot of experiences concerning this website, since I have spend a lot of time out of home, studying and working, while living in places where I didn't have much opportunity to surf. However, I have accommodated numerous alternative music bands whose concerts I organized in the past decades. I am used to accommodating people from all over the world so feel free to ask for accommodation. Right now, though, I have little space, and I'll probably decline.

Interessi

I sometimes organize and attend alternative music concerts. I am into literature, world cinema, art, underground music and comic books, religions, mysticism, anthropology, culture theory, etc.

• arts
• culture
• books
• literature
• concerts
• festivals
• movies
• music
• alternative music
• punk music
• anthropology
• teaching
• religion
• tourism

Musica, film e libri

MOVIES: Spring Summer Fall Winter and...Spring, 3-Iron, Breath, Time (She-Gan), Hwal, 2001: Space Odyssey, Tetsuo the Iron Man, Battle Royale, Versus, Suicide Club, The Bicycle Thief, Dogville, Ichi the Killer, Bird People in China, Audition, Turtles Can Fly, Ballad of a Soldier, Wounds, Decko koji obecava, Sabirni centar, Brat, Clerks, Fight Club, Favela Rising, La Vie de Bohème, Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, The Wayward Cloud, Dark City, Leon The Professional, Naked Gun, Sex and Lucia, etc.

MUSIC GENRES: grindcore, melodic punk, darkwave, EBM, gothic, future pop, ska, jazz, tribal music, religious chants from all around the world, metal, sludge, avantguarde, stoner rock, neo swing, alternative, shoegaze, noise, powerviolence, some rock, some country, medieval, classical, hard core, psychobilly, rockabilly, hip hop, ethnic, math core...

BOOKS: Naked Lunch, The Wasteland + Prufrock and Other Poems, Guy Debord "Society of Spectacle", Vonnegut "Slaughterhouse 5", Auden - Collected Poems, Roald Dahl, In Search of the Miraculous, Osho - "Zen Stories", Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Ishmael, Brave New World, Stranger,

Una cosa incredibile che ho fatto

"Sziget Festival" - back in the early 2000s was an amazing experience.

Insegna, impara, condividi

If you have a chance go to see Sziget Festival in Budapest, Hungary.
If you're in New York, check out the view from Empire State Building. Go about 45 minutes before the twilight, and see the day, twilight, and the night lights for in one visit.

Paesi che ho visitato

Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, India, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uzbekistan

Paesi in cui ho vissuto

Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Qatar, Serbia, United States