CURRENT MISSION

London. Feel. Love. Live.

ABOUT ME

I'm shy at first. And quite rigid. And very silent. But once I realize I could trust and share thoughts and life experiences with the person I'm handling with I become really reliable, hilarious, talkative...and subtly ironical and somehow quite whacky! I'm open-minded and versatile, appreciate interdisciplinarity and I'm willing to improve myself. I love listening to people and observing them, I like to get to know them deeply. I'm kinda careful observer, actually. I adore learning languages - they explain a lot about national mentalities and approaches to life! I love experiencing new things (foods particularly!) and meet people from abroad. I love details, undertunes of things and people - they say a lot about personalities and attitudes, but can't stand the so-called "useless details philologists" - they're dull! I like getting letters (written on paper!) and collecting epistulary relationships. I like flowers, the sea, winter time, travelling alone, french fries and onion rings, hot tea with milk, smoking when I really feel like, watching black and white movies, writing non-sense screenplays with my friends, walking under the rain with uncovered head, get where I want on foot. I love night-time. I love pasta and coffee @ any time of the day! - yeah, I'm Italian and can't help acting on it!;) I love speaking dialect with my granmas...and with my kitty as well. I love living on my own and feel totally free. I'm keen on bearing someone else's burdens when necessary and when I ought to. I can't avoid collecting movie&theater tickets, public transport tickets, receipts, bills, vouchers...everything that proves I exist! I love chatting till dawn in front of the fireplace with my best friend. I love acting. I love the fulfilment I feel everytime I get out of a theatre, after watching an astonishing performance, able to upset one's existence (I'll never forget Brook's "Beckett's fragments"). I love reading poetry aloud, having a stroll along the river or in the mountains, find a lonely place and scream out loud! I like perceiving I'm growing, culturally and as a human being. I love writing in a room of my own. I love sketching and drawing caricatures on notebooks' pages during classes. I laught myself out every time I challenge my sister to face-deformation contests. I love learning dates by heart, and recall past events to mind...a really yearning way to chill. I love jamming with friends and dance till I'm black. I go crazy pretending I can speak French or Papacciova (a language a close friend and I invented on London tube in 2006) fluently with my friends. I love spending time staring at paintings I can't take my eyes off of. I love caressing my lover's hair. I like when I'm plunged in the fresh morning air. I quite like day dreaming. And most of all I really really love sharing all this with those I love and care for. Happiness only real when shared.
I feel badly and miserable when I realize I'm locked in a bubble, while the fresh morning air caresses the world all around. I hate conformism, indifference, lack of empathy , meannes, shallowness. I totally dislike train stations and Milano tube.

PHILOSOPHY

Uhm...pretty difficult to summarize. I'm trying to live my life in order to understand fully and deeply who I am, what I want, what I'm meant to be, and to achieve a state of profound understanding of myself, and through it, of other people too. I'm constantly analysing people, feelings, events to pick and get to their authentical core, their glowing or dark, but in both cases amazingly pulsing, essence. And I'm continuosly struggling against a bad tendance of mine, that's living indirectly - a sort of bovarism! I could say I would experience absolute feelings. I want to feel, see, fathom, touch, listen and respond. I want to feel. I'd love to seek spiritual freedom. And eventually hopefully discover that the Chaos we live in is just a partial refraction of a universal Order that dominates and settles from above all the events and coincidences of our lives and therefore feel at peace.

Quoting my spiritual-guide:

"It is myself I have never met, whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind".

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm up for a tea/coffee/drink/chat/theatre performance and whatever has to do with arts!
I really wish to provide an available couch soon!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I surfed 3 times in the Netherlands and it was awesome!...I look forward to repaying my hosts and having new guests over as soon as I'll find a place on my own! :-)

Interests

Theatre, Cinema, Reading, Photography, Fine and Performing Arts, Literature, Languages, Acting, Drawing, Writing, Critics, Studying and Learning new things, Globetrottering, Dressing Ups (for fun!), In-yer-face theatre, approaching passionately to life, getting deeply in contact with people.

• arts
• writing
• literature
• poetry
• theater
• performing arts
• photography
• acting
• sketching
• perfumes
• dancing
• coffee
• walking
• drinking
• flowers
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• drawing
• languages
• tourism
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:Evita (A. Parker), Julia (F. Zimmermann), Man On The Moon (M. Forman), Elephant (G. Van Sant), Someone Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (M. Forman), V for Vendetta (J. Mc Teigue), The Pianist (R. Polanski), La Pianiste (M. Haneke), Blue Velvet (D. Lynch), The English Patient (A. Minghella), Shine (S. Hicks), Fight Club (D. Fincher), Prospero's Dream (P. Greenway), Der Himmel ueber Berlin (W. Wenders), Edward II (D. Jarman), The Libertine (L. Dunmore), Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (C. Faber), The Wind That Shakes The Barley (K. Loach), In The Name Of The Father (J. Sheridan), The Aviator (M. Scorsese), Brokeback mountain (A. Lee), 11/09/2001, Magnolia (P.T. Anderson), Fargo (J.& E. Coen), The Man Who Wasn't There (J.& E. Coen), Brazil (T. Gilliam), The Fisher King (T. Gilliam), 12 Monkeys (T. Gilliam), The Meaning Of Life (Monty Python), Dogville (L. Von Trier), The Hours (S. Daldry), Forrest Gump (R. Zemeckis), E.T. (S. Spielberg), Little Miss Sunshine (J. Dayton & V. Faris), Philadelphia (J. Demme), The Village (M. Night Shyamalan), Young Frankenstein(M. Brooks), Roobin Hood: Man In Tights (M. Brooks), Space balls (M. Brooks), Once Upon Time In America (S. Leone), The Good The Bad And The Ugly (S. Leone), Citizen Kane (O. Wells), Hiroshima Mon Amour (A. Resnais), Doctor Strange Love (S. Kubrick), Mon oncle (J. Tati) Le 400 coups, Jules t Jim (F. Truffaut), Smultronstället , Det sjunde inseglet (I. Bergmann), Notorius (A. Hitchcock), Psycho (A. Hitchcock), Frenzy (A. Hitchcock), All About Eve (J. L. Mankiewicz), 8 1/2 (F. Fellini), La double vié de Veronique (K. Kieślowski), Into the Wild (S.Penn) and many other thousands!

Music: Damien Rice, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Joe Henry, Janis Joplin, Iron Maiden, Dream Theater, Apocalyptica, Gamma Ray, Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius, Ed Guy, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Helloween, Alice Cooper, Manowar, Dragon Force, Rainbow and anything involving Ronnie James Dio!, Rush, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who, Aerosmith, Asia, Wetton, Tenacious D, Hellsongs, Desdemona, Whitesnake, Jethro Tull, Queensryche, Guns n' Roses, Muse, Lifehouse, Skid Row, Ayeron, Avantasia, Nazareth, Creedens, King Crimson, Kansas, Yann Tiersen, Die Aerzte, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Richie Kotzen, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Ragiohead, The Beatles, some brit Indie music, Archive, Interpol, The Police, Mago de Oz, Opeth, Gilbert Bacaud, Jaques Brel, Serge Gainsbourg, la chanson francaise!, AIR, Daft Punk, Mina, tutto Battisti, Battiato, Gaber, Gianna Nannini, il Tiziano dei Tempi d'Oro, Cocciante and many more Italian songwriters of the 60s and 70s ,Gaetano Veloso, Otta Marie Von Karbognani, Isabèl Kosmou, Verdi, Puccini, Handel, Mozart,Chopin, Keith Jarret, Philip Glass and many many many more...I'm constantly open new musical scenarios!

Booooooks: The Master And Margarita (M. Bulgakov), Immortality, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (M. Kundera), Le théâtre et son double(A. Artaud), Scritti Corsari (P. P. Pasolini), Yerma (F. Garcia Lorca), Le Grand Cahier / La Preuve / Le Troisième mensonge (A. Kristof), Lavorare stanca (C. Pavese), Mrs. Dalloway (V. Woolf), Rockaby (S. Beckett), La Cantatrice chauve, Le roi se meurt (E. Ionesco), Cathedral (R. Carver), Hamlet, Richard III (W. Shakespeare), 4:48 Psychosis, Crave (S. Kane), Night Crossing (D. Mahon), I sommersi e i salvati (P. Levi), La pelle (C. Malaparte)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I dress up and walk through public places - most of the times wearing a coloured wig and a nightdress - in every city I'm visiting.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach:
1.I'm qualified to teach Italian as Foreign Language and could and would gladly teach it, if anyone would ever be interested in learning it or practising.
2.I can touch my elbows behind my back. It's just a matter of muscles flexibility..but I wouldn't mind teaching it- or at least trying to teach it!
3.I might draw my sketches on t-shirts!
4.I can watch some selected movies or listen to selected cds up to 5 times in a row and not get fed up. Could try to share this precious skill!

Learn: I'm eager to learn every possible thing.

Share:I'm keen on sharing...everything - except my toothbrush!

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Italy, Netherlands