Hey folks - it´s me Paul. I haven´t been active on here in a long while but thought I might give it another go. I´m a film student living in Hamburg. It´s more of an art school education so the films I´m surrounded by are mostly the arthouse, experimental and weird old classic-type of film.
Well there´s probably many other things that could be said about me for example that I always try to play a fitting song in any given situation, that I love words, puns, jokes and speaking especially when it´s about everything and nothing at the same time. I do love to cook but sometimes I stick to simple things like bread with cheese, tomatos and feta or some plain yoghurt.
When I was living in the southern part of Germany near the Black Forest I used to ride my bike all the time. Since moving to Hamburg my bikes were stolen 3 times so eventhough I really want to ride on I don´t think the universe is contempt with my wish.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet people far outside my bubble but also to find like minded empathatic souls all over the world.

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite movies:

Shoplifters (Kore-Eda)
Cleo à 5 de 7 (Varda)
Black Coal, Thin Ice (Diao Yinan)
Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)
Once (Carney)
Parasite (Bong Joon-Ho)
The Big Lebowski
Oldboy (Park Chan-Wook)

Favorite TV shows/ Series:

Utopia
Atlanta
Community
Breaking Bad of course
Nathan Fielder´s The Rehearsal

Favorite Music:

Tom Waits, Cate Le Bon, Kendrick Lamar, The Beatles, Andrew Bird, Fleet Foxes, Steely Dan, Aretha Franklin, Sudan Archives, George Duke, Damien Jurado, Kadhja Bonet, Black Midi, Return to Forever, Little Simz and it goes on and on and on

Favorite books:

Kafka on the Shore, New York Trilogy, The Sympathizer, She Would Be King

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sleeping in a castle ruin in the french alpilles

Directed an experimental feminist porn film which won and played at many international festivals

Reading one of Astrid Lindgren´s books at her Birthplace and climbing the tree that she once climbed

Riding through the scottish highlands by bike

Directing a live cinema movie where we performed, shot and edited everything at the same time and streamed it to two German cinemas

A lot of special concerts but the best ones were seeing Ice Cube in Inglewood, Ichiko Aoba in some Berlin Bar where I sat like 4 foot away from her and Black Midis completely insane live show

Interviewed my favorite director (Hirokazu Kore-Eda)

Teach, Learn, Share

I still have to learn a lot for myself, but I´m always there to talk and maybe that will bring you some form of enlightenment or whatever...

Some recipes - I´ve gotten quite ok with pizza and some of my salads knock it out of the park

I do love to talk and tell about music, films and filmmaking but I promise not to be too extreme with the name dropping. I love music and movies but not everyone else has to likeit as much as me

What I Can Share with Hosts

A joke

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, Russian Federation, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany