CURRENT MISSION
Trying to become a decent piano player and composer:

My Youtube Page:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjZsu4vzqVZFbWVShPbCdRw/featured

My SoundCloud Page:
https://soundcloud.com/kalos-piano

ABOUT ME
I'm a guy from Calabria, the southernmost region of continental Italy. Currently living in Luxembourg, travelling whenever I can. On summer 2009 I had my first couchsurfing experience while going on a two-weeks journey through UK and Ireland.

PHILOSOPHY
"I feel about nationalities/citizenship and passports the way I feel about underwear: always carry plenty of it, and change it regularly" (Willem Buiter)

Interests

Playing the piano, learning to speak new languages, listening to music, reading books, watching movies, working out, travelling, meeting new people.

• books
• working out
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• drums
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun; The Urth of the New Sun
Douglas Adams - The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Bill Bryson - Neither Here Nor There
Yan Martel - Life of Pi
Milan Kundera - Immortality
Nick Hornby - High Fidelity
Saramago - Ensaio Sobre A Cegueira

Music:
mainly classical, especially for piano: many pieces from Beethoven, Chopin, Bach, Liszt, Albeniz, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Mozart, Vivaldi and many others
but also jazz, fusion, rock and metal:
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Cynic - Focus
Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory; A Change of Seasons; Images & Words
Aghora - Aghora
Love - Forever Changes
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Jarabe de Palo - La Flaca
Hiromi Uehara - Another Mind
Amon Amarth - Once Sent From the Golden Hall
Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
Murray Head - Say It Ain't So, Joe
Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
Thin Lizzy - Romeo And The Lonely Girl
Velvet Underground - Who Loves The Sun
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, Rage Against the Machine, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Victor Wooten, Pearl Jam, Rolling Stones, Elio e le Storie Tese, etc...

Movies:
La Haine, Clerks, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain, And Now For Something Completely Different, Into the Wild, Minority Report, Fight Club, Life of Pi, The Naked Gun, Leon, Cidade de Deus, High Fidelity, etc...

TV Shows:
Rick and Morty, Gravity Falls, Coupling, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Malcolm, Friends, Joey, Misfits, The Last Man on Earth, The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, American Dad, Brickleberry, Avez Vous Déjà Vu, Spongebob, Johnny Bravo, The Fairly Odd Parents, Cowboy Bebop, Death Note, Attack On Titan, Trigun.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

maybe not yet amazing, but hopefully improving in the future:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_947426707&feature=iv&list=PL01qNEPVt3vzU-JDr17EdBL8sZq88n1JU&src_vid=Nnk3e1L_EjE&v=w-Y08W4cm10

https://soundcloud.com/kalos-piano

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands

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