CURRENT MISSION

To know and learn.

ABOUT ME

Degree & Master in Fine Arts in Valencia, Spain. Currently a sign painter as a job and street artist for love and fun.

I’m in Couchsurfing as many others, because I love to discover the world and its people. And the more different from me the better. My fiends consider me a social guy, so I guess I am (although I see myself shyer). I do not need much to get along with someone, honesty and good mood is enough. Honesty, creativity and curiosity seem to me the highest virtues of the human being. Ah, and a good sense of humor, that’s indispensable for a healthy living. In my life I need both solitude and human contact, they are two sides of the same coin for me, so I enjoy as much a long deep talk as a long walk alone. :)

Here you can see my art:
https://www.instagram.com/mrnobodysmind

And here my job as sign painter:
www.NicoBarrios.com
https://www.instagram.com/NicoBarriosArt

PHILOSOPHY
Trust has led me to more places than distrust.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love the philosophy in with CouchSurfing is based: Trust. We need that, mostly nowadays.

Interests

I like music made from the heart. Comming from Hip-Hop culture, the samples they use and my mom an dad's good taste has open me to the good music. From funk to classical, electronic or jazz, but my favorite period is progressive from late 60s & early 70s: Pink Floyd, Eric Brudon’s War, Cortex, The Meters, Funkadelic… And lots of contemporary artists.

I also love cinema, literature and essays. I used to run a private "Cine-Fórum" in my days in Barcelona. Here you can see the movies I played: https://www.instagram.com/lasextaventanacineforum

I like to discuss politics and it always end up drifting towards philosophy. I'm up to good conversations.

• coffee
• movies
• art
• cinema
• read
• streetart
• graffiti
• walk

Music, Movies, and Books

Some narrative:
'Jo confesso', de Jaume Cabré — 'The grapes of wrath' from John Steinbeck — 'Nada', de Carmen Laforet — 'Jane Eyre' from Charlotte Brontë — 'The Heart es a Lonely Hunter' from Carson McCullers — Murakami, Cortázar, Borges and Raymond Carver's stories...

Some essays:
Walter Benjamin, Byung-Chul Han, Juhani Pallasmaa, Germán Huici, Marina Garcés

Some comics/graphic novels:
'Portugal', de Cyril Pedrosa — 'La Casa', de Paco Roca — ‘The Arrival', from Shaun Tan

Some albums:
Pink Floyd's 'Atom Hearth Mother' — Miles Davis 'Kind of Blue'— Gorillaz's 'Demon Days'— MF Doom's 'Madvillainy' — Buena Vista Social Club 1997 Album — Agnes Obel's 'Phillarmonics' — Tyler's 'Igor' — Soundtracks by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis — 'El mal querer', de Rosalía

Some films:
'The Fall', from Tarsem Singh — 'El secreto de sus ojos', de Juan José Campanella — 'The arrival', from Denis Villeneuve — 'The Master', from Paul Thomas Anderson — Polanski's 'Rosemary's Baby' — Kubrick's '2001' — 'Carol', from Todd Haynes — 'Coffee and Cigarettes', from Jim Jarmusch — Woody Allen's 'Zelig' — 'Climax', from Gaspar Noé — 'The Man from Earth', from Richard Schenkman — 'La Grande Bellezza' di Paolo Sorrentino — 'What We Do in the Shadows' from Taika Waititi — 'Un lugar en el mundo', de Adolfo Aristarain — 'Antonia's Line' from Marleen Gorris

Some TV Series:
David Simon's The Wire and Treme, True Detective, Boardwalk Empire, Vientos de Agua, Antidisturbios, The Office, Mr. Bean

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

El Camino de Santiago — Traveling alone — Deep debates with opponsite minds.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Nice company, both casual and deep conversations, knowledge about the city and my area, the beautiful Horta Nord, and also freedom: this is not an AirB&B, but you don't need to be attached to the host neither.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Spain