Interests

• cooking
• politics
• history
• philosophy
• composing music
• culture and history

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Pink Floyd, led zeppelin, Dire Straits, The Doors, King Crimson, Tool, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Johnny Cash, Aha, Steven Wilson, Kansas,
Leonard Cohen, Soundgarden, Rammstein, Sufjan Stevens, Johann Sebastian Bach, Giuseppe Tartini, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner, Antonio Vivaldi.

Books: Mother by Gorky, Of Human Bondage, The Outsider, Thus spake Zarathustra, Into the Wild, Motorcycle Diaries, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Nausea, The Blind Owl.

Movies: Andrie Rublev, The Mirror, Stalker, Satantango, Metropolis, The man who Laughs, Time of the Gypsies, Gadjo dilo, Underground, Nostalghia, The Seventh Seal, The Best of Youth, Naked, Into The Wild, The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, Legends Of The Fall, Out of Africa, Dances with the Wolves, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, Cloud Atlas, The Turin Horse, The English Patient, Full Metal Jacket, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, and many more.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhiked across Norway in January, mostly at night, in -20°C.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Norway, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belarus, India, Latvia