CURRENT MISSION

an ant's forefoot shall save me

ABOUT ME

moved to chicago in july 2011, love to read

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

had an excellent and memorable time in madrid and granada thanks to my wonderful hosts!

Interests

walking briskly. hiking in the country. lit and cultural theory. translation. speed rides. cathar history. heritage preservation. environmental poetics. seafood and oxtail soup. meeting and listening to warm people from everywhere

• seafood
• walking
• hiking
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

books/writers: cloud atlas, earthly powers, wuthering heights, a room of one's own, the sea, the secret history, the electric michelangelo, look at me, If on a winter's night a traveller, mother's milk, the reader, season of migration to the north, mulberry and peach, life end of, works by walter benjamin, ezra pound, anne carson etc.

Music; grizzly bear, ratatat, kaija saariaho, ravel, brahms, scriabin, prokofiev, beirut, sufjan stevens, sviatoslav richter, krystian zimerman, maurizio pollini, chen qigang, martha argerich, ivo pogorelic, emil gilels

Movies: sans soleil, gattaca, taxi blues, terribly happy, soldier's girl, the lives of others, children of men, a prophet, plata quemada, lady with a pet dog, shelter, the fall, fanny and alexander, welcome to the NHK, fight club, king and the clown, amores perros, happiness, sasha, meine schwiegertochter ist ein mann, C.R.A.Z.Y.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

hiking with philippe in parque de cazorla and staying in his caravan, hiking in the pyrenees and montserrat

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Iceland, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Panama, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, United States