CURRENT MISSION

to enjoy the sunshine while it lasts..

ABOUT ME

spent half my working life as a photographer imagining the world and the other half taking students around to try to understand the world. i read too much for my own good, generous to people, and agree its all about learning from one another. sometime i will write a better description but time is currently my enemy....

PHILOSOPHY

one day will come when the day will not come

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

you have my full attention. my home is open to be surfed and to exchange cultural ideas. i like the CS vibe. peace.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

first time CSing in Bucharest, Romania. stayed overnight with Bea, my girlfriend, we were taken around the city to see a little of its history. then big couchsurfing trip with Bea around Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. we did one night of CSing in New York. we have hosted a few times too in Narni. all cool.

Interests

film, books, music, politics, architecture, the unknown, art, sound design, sculpture, food, how people think, looking at the overlooked, dreaming, 1970s spaced out movies like zabriskie point, talking, walking, peace and of course...love.

• arts
• books
• architecture
• design
• dining
• walking
• politics
• movies
• music
• history
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC
jazz, hip hop, broken, funk, soul, disco, detroit, garage, ambient, psybient, electronica, latin, rai, turkish, arab, neurofunk, defunkt, freddie hubbard, early george benson, ian carr, somatik, solar apple quarktette, break reform, d'nell, abstract blue, further out, nuwave radio, milkaudio, minnie riperton, blue mitchell, gary bartz, charlie mariano, ltj bukem, source direct, photek, omni trio, conrad schnitzler, common, silhouette brown, 4hero, numbers, domu, kev brown, kosma, jazzanova, sean escoffery, markus enochson, dennis ferrer, fela kuti, yam who, jah wobble, buggie wesseltoft, ultra nate, low budget soul, carl craig, ski oakenfull, sound experience, the DOC, doug carn, dorothy ashby, second direction, david matthews, jazztronik, ramp, herbie mann, sa/ra, cinematics, simon s, patrice rushen, stevie wonder, stones throw, madlib, theo parrish, moodymann, fatback, mandrill, canonball adderley, eddie henderson, eddie palmieri, susuma yokota, robert watson, mulatu, sun ra, bobbi humphrey, jeamel lee, wendell harrison, phillip ranelin, julie driscoll, george duke, tonton macoute, gina x, nicola conte, d'angelo, dwele, norken, jvc force, the 45 king, shock sound system, mighty observer, pigbag, mos def, peanut butter wolf, the clash, steve miller band, the stranglers, conrad schnitzler, killing joke, talib kweli, sabu martinez, open sky unit, herbie hancock, alphonse mouzon, alex attias, joy division, devo, hajime yoshizawa, kyoto jazz massive, UFO, joe t vanelli, robert owens, mood 2 swing, kcc, roy davis, soul sonic force, lattee, larry heard, bugz, truby trio, john coltrane, mark de clive lowe, koop, matthew herbert, sonny rollins, jill scott, laurie anderson, yusef lateef, n.e.r.d, ursula rucker, gangstarr, true mathematics, bomb squad, public enemy, grace jones, shuggie otis, n'dambi, blackbeard, KRS1, john martyn, kerri chandler, snowboy, eve, mf doom, cassandra wilson, portishead, mighty observer soundsystem, amp fiddler, plantlife, curtis mayfield, sly stone, blue 6, plaid, underground resistance.

FILMS
babylon, le samourai, battle of algiers, animatrix, perfect blue, la belle et la bette, f for fake, l'eclisse, l'avventura, ghost in the shell, grave of the fireflies, the day the earth caught fire, shiri, spirited away, point blank, the thing, come and see, ivans childhood, fitzcarraldo, l'age d'ore, simon of the desert, pandoras box, sullivans travels, beggars of life, rollerball, the trial, thx1138, apocalypse now, la jettee, alphaville, aguirre wrath of god, alien, badlands, battle royale, beat street, blade, bird with crystal plummage, branded to kill, brighton rock, barry lyndon, bullitt, carnival of souls, chunking express, the conversation, city of god, capricorn one, danger diabolik, death race 2000, deep red, day of the jackal, draughtsmans contract, dont look now, do the right thing, easy rider, eyes without a face, farenheit 451, fail safe, frankenstein, intacto, invasion of the body snatchers, manchurian candidate, man who fell to earth, manhunter, mean streets, my neighbour tortoro, the killing, night of the hunter, night and fog, peeping tom, parallax view, rabid, ran, red shoes, requiem for a dream, rififi, the red circle, seven days in may, suspiria, sweet smell of success, solaris, stalker, targets, the time machine, timecode, the terrorist, the three days of the condor, tokyo drifter, the vanishing, the wicker man, witchfinder general, weekend, point blank, last year in marienbad, blind beast, the face of another, seconds, 2001, citizen kane, sunset boulevard, fallen angels, mr blandings builds his dream home, jaws, vertigo, north by northwest, the birds, illustrious corpses, three brothers, salvatore guiliano, network, french connection, the set up, asphalt jungle, the big heat, the good the bad the ugly, usual suspects, the shining, memento, goldfinger, paths of glory, seven samurai, pi, M, oldboy, last life in the universe, a snake of june, wavelength, killers kiss, my name is nobody, hands over the city, the mattei affair, man with a movie camera, the sweet hereafter, fear eats the soul, le mepris, hana-bi, meshes of the afternoon, the conformist, dog day afternoon, taxi driver, mean streets, sunrise, 3 iron, zardoz.

BOOKS
looking at the overlooked, 1984, the time machine, war of the worlds, island of dr moreau, war in the age of intelligent machines, postmodern animals, the culture of collecting, hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world, the making of tania : the patty hearst story, the simulacra, flow my tears the policeman said, a scanner darkly, the man in the high castle, the plague, landscape and memory, brave new world, animal farm, alices adventures in wonderland, crash, concrete island, the atrocity exhibition, wind up bird chronicle, wild seed, handmaids tale, the spire, hound of the baskervilles, do androids dream of electric sheep, galactic pot healer, planet of the apes, the periodic table, kitchen, mary barton, parable of the talents, hip hop america, the collector, candide, simulation and simulacra, gullivers travels, the trial, farenheit 451, republic, lives of the artists, nadja, the bloody chamber, temple of the golden pavillion, things fall apart, decameron, the odyssey, moby dick, king lear, julius caesar, airspaces, ape to apollo, beehive metaphor, chromophobia, the destruction of art, the devil, forever young, fragments of the european city, frankenstein creation and monstrosity, the passion.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

being alive...

Teach, Learn, Share

my mind moves very quickly and like a science fiction size sponge absorbs too much data for the good of a single carbon based life form..

i am into being chilled and learning from people.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy

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