CURRENT MISSION

meeting new people and see the world

ABOUT ME

hey.. I am Simon!

And Simon says:
Music is good, keeps you always in a good mood.. and if you feel blue it helps you getting up again !

After school i did an amazing one year work for a school for handicapped people in the countryside next to Rome. Then i needed some time to rethink what i wanna do and decided to try out studying music. Not at a University cause i didnt pass the exams but instead I did an apprenticeship for music in Dinkelsbühl (where the famous SummerBreeze is held), Bavaria. So after gaining new experiences I decided not to study music any further as I am more interested in recording and all the related technologies. That's when i decided to study Media Technology in Düsseldorf - which is a combination of artistic skills and engineering all about Audio and Video.

PHILOSOPHY

Run down borders/restrictions, Do the forbidden, Do what you like without hurting people. Distort people with your behavior. Try to wake them up from their everydayisthesamedream. Do the unexpected. Never measure up to s.o.'s expectations. Always irritate. But be kind. Be a good listener. Respect the people that give you a helping hand.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am living in a flat share with 3 other people (one girl/ 2 guys) and we have a couch thats almost always free, so if you wanna stay here just get in contact with us. Normally we stay at home, as we prefer to have a good talk and some tea or wine instead of spending all our money in too noisy places. But if there's a good concert or some nice DnB, Dubstep, Electro Swing, Minimal Techno parties, we might participate ;)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

All my couchsurfing experiences yet have been as a surfer during my time when i went to Düsseldorf to look for a flat. Although a good friend of mine (look for Frankenstein) has a huge flatshare and they almost always host couchsurfers so thats where i got in contact with many people and decided that this is a cool system which I want to support.

Interests

Well, here are some of my main interests: music music music films (better not to much from the wood of holyness) languages, photography, modern arts, interesting and nice people because there is nothing more bothering than being around with the same people allll the time..

• arts
• modern art
• photography
• concerts
• wine
• running
• partying
• technology
• movies
• music
• guitar
• communications
• engineering
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

music: i wouldnt finish if i would post all the bands singers and composers i like..
well, right at the moment i really like electronic swing dubstep music, minimal and drum and bass, big beat etc when i wanna party.. and Deichkind !! ;)

else i like many kinds of metal and this varies really inbetween all the subgenres of metal beginning with 70s hardrock and ending with modern nu metal, 90s neothrash and post ambient rock, also depressive and/or ambient black metal, brutal death and grindcore, chipmunk grind and a lot more.. Horrorpunk, Rockabilly, 70s Rock, etc..
well as you might have noticed music plays a kinda bigger part in my life i could go on and on but i will just mention some few more bands that will always "play" a bigger part in my life:
Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler solo, Disillusion, Opeth, Blind Guardian, RHCP, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Muse, Rammstein ... not to forget about jazz/blues/medieval modern rock/and some of german and english hiphop (beasty boys,sammy deluxe, jan delay, seeed, peter fox,vanilla ice, mc hammer,..), 90s techno (mark oh, dune, snap), more folklike/singersongwriter/chilling music like John Butler, Anna Ternheim, Faun, Anathema, The XX or great german indie bands like Tocotronic or cool modern non-hating german Hip Hop like Herr von Grau, the Orsons, Sookie - there is so much great stuff outside and our lives are way to short to find out about all of them ;(

books: Alice 1+2, the picture of dorian gray, Faust I, Anne Rice all, Stephen King's The Dark Tower, Steven Erickson - Malazan Book of the Fallen series, Ted Williams - Otherland, Walter Moers - Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher, Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide through the Galaxy

movies: Stay, trainspotting, fight club, v like vendetta, blues brothers, all Monthy Python, Into the Wild, Once, Sin City, Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulin - just to mention a few, but there are sooo much more, im just to lazy atm to mention them^^

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

strange people helping you just because they want to !

Teach, Learn, Share

i play guitar very well.. ^^

more later..

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, China, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Italy