CURRENT MISSION

To live from the heart, to stop thinking things and start feeling them instead.

ABOUT ME

It's definitely hard for me to describe myself because I feel entangled in a self-contradicting phenomenon in which the more I identify myself and the more I draw myself away from that typification. I may thus say that I'm a sociology student, a guitar, bass and drums player, a psybient fan, an altogether Argentino-quebecois, a softcore vegetarian and a spiritual seeker, but I'm of course not only that, nor none of those things by themselves. I do not wish to lock myself up on the idea of what I think I am, and I do not wish to have an image of myself imposed upon me by others.

I'm simply a good guy who loves to be in good company and share with others the infinite experience of now.

PHILOSOPHY

Experience liberates and experience entraps. The universe speaks through paradox and dialectics. What I came to learn is that it is in the living moment that opposites merge together, that counterparts integrate each other and that contradiction dissolves itself into self-moving oneness. It's the nature of life itself that binds them together and perpetuates its everlasting journey. My purpose in this life is to open myself to this world and thus make every one of my acts a part of the moving whole.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host whenever I can, but during the semester work just piles up and unfortunately Couchsurfing is set aside sometimes. I keep my couch status as "available" because I really don't want to miss any opportunities of meeting a great noble soul, but if you hit me up during the exam period, there is a chance that I may just not have enough time.

Please send a request if you get the kicks and I'll do my possible. :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My first time couchsurfing was as a guest in Titisee, Germany, and it was absolutely awesome to say the least. I decided right then that I wanted to participate in this community as much as I could. Then my first hosting experience was during my student exchange in Strasbourg and I met incredibly loving literature students from California. It's been great so far and can't wait for what's yet to come.

Interests

Music, culture, art, spirituality, all forms of radical subjectivity and attempts to reappropriate experience, to reclaim it as irreducible, intransigent, unpredictable, undomesticable and total.

• arts
• poetry
• meditation
• hiking
• philosophy
• sociology
• nature
• forests
• spirituality
• vegetarianism
• psychedelics
• synthesizers
• zen buddhism
• situationist international
• critical theory

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: I'd say I listen to stoner doom and goatrance, and all there is in between, such as psychedelic rock, psybient, world music, reggae, etc. If I had to be more specific, here's an approximation of my all-time favorites: The Beatles, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Om, Windhand, Wendy Carlos, Johann Sebastian Bach, Mike Oldfield, Jethro Tull, Simon & Garfunkel, Entheogenic, Makyo, NOFX, Dead Kennedys, Black Sabbath, Steeleye Span, Sunforest, Ravi Shankar, and so on and so on.

Favorite movies: Il Postino, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Falling Down, Duck, you sucker!, Airplane, Dead Poets Society, Harold & Maude, The Party, The Three Caballeros, Waking Life, Donnie Darko, A Clockwork Orange, Cinema Paradiso, etc.

Most influential books (excluding my philosophy and sociology books): Be Here Now, Journey to Ixtlan, The Only Dance There Is, Howl, The Dharma Bums, The Doors Of Perception, La vie devant soi.

TV shows: South Park, Futurama, Undergrads, That '70s Show, Family Guy, Chachacha.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Witness the incredible amount of unconditional love humanity has to offer.

Teach, Learn, Share

“I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of ‘em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.” – Gary Snyder

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Laos, Myanmar, Slovenia, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Canada, France