CURRENT MISSION

Broadening the horizons

PHILOSOPHY

"I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen — I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like the Martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it." Neil Gaiman

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm new here and still only beginning to discover the possibilities of the CS. Over time, I'm going to become a prominent surfer and make a bunch of regular friends that will stay with me and who I will be staying during his travels.

Interests

Journalism, travels, snowboarding, surfing, literature, games - board and computer, new people, writing.

• cats
• writing
• literature
• dining
• running
• flying
• surfing
• snowboarding
• boxing
• journalism
• law
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Russian classic, sci-fi (Robert Sheckley, Strugatsky brothers, Ray Bradbury and etc), applied psychology.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Entered the MSU (it was really my personal Everest 10 years ago :)). After that all the achievments are basically connected with journalistic investigations and self impovement.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Everything I have is at your service - bed, food, shower and my time. If you will be interested in looking for intersting places in Moscow - I'll be your guide, otherwise you can just stay at my home for a few days.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, France, Germany, Indonesia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Kazakhstan, Russian Federation