CURRENT MISSION

To meet the Beach Boys in a dream and to wake up with an hawaian shirt on.

ABOUT ME

My description was too long so i cut it down a bit... ... see?

PHILOSOPHY

Your life is the greatest story you'll ever be told... Make an effort!

Votre vie est la plus grande histoire qui ne vous sera jamais raconté... de loin... Je sais pas pour vous, mais moi ça me suffit à donner un sens à ce qu'on appelle "tout ça"...

And that feeling of being precisely somewhere on the Earth at a specific time, that feeling of being God and a grain of sand at the same time, if you ever got it, maybe it's not a philosophy but it's certainly the beginning of philosophy: self-awareness. It struck me on a few occasions in my life and it's incredibly tough to describe how peaceful I felt in those moments.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've registered in 2007 for a road trip, had a great time with all my hosts, but never got to host myself in Montréal. Couchsurfing is such a great idea. How many times I've wished a backpack traveller in Montréal could just stop me on the sidewalk and tell me "Hi, sorry to bother you but i've been in the city for two hours and I have no idea of what I'm doing"... Man... And how bad I wished having enough guts to do that myself, in vain... Couchsurfing creates that kind of contact between the traveler and the local and that's very enriching.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

It was always awesome. I met a good dozen of couchsurfers and hosts on my roadtrip in 2007, and I keep great memories of all these amazing encounters in Chicago, St-Louis, Independance, Birmingham and Washington D.C., Miami, etc. It is such a great way to travel. I didn't travel much those past years, being a parent, but each time I go on a solo trip, I always think about couchsurfing because it will always be close to my heart.

Interests

Local food, Walking, Writting, TV, making movies, making radio shows, anything with historical value, the 80's, Geography (I have been swallowed many times by an Atlas in public libraries), Sports, Creativity, Beer, Maybe local food with that beer?

• dining
• beer
• walking
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• backpacking
• sports
• geography
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

I love almost any kind of movies, especially when it's getting old. Among my classics, there's Barry Lyndon, Dr Strangelove and pretty every Kubrick movie, Terminator 2, Top Secret, Lost in Translation, Le déclin de l'empire américain, Love and Death... It's pointless to go on, we all know that.

I'm strangely not a notorious reader despite my interest in writting. And I love reading as well: go figure, I guess it's cable tv and the lack of time by myself. On the Road by Kerouac and La part de l'autre de Karl -Emmanuel Schmidt are big players. La nausée de Sartre as well. I'm reading and enjoying Bukowski these days, very much actually.

The 80's have a special place in my music tastes, because I like syth music and naive popular culture. Still, I believe the 80's have been an odd time, far more disturbing than it looks like. Anyway, once again, I tend to stick on songs from any style and eras, but always with that better feeling with the old stuff. But I'm in the peace process with hip hop right now. Who would have thought... My favorite groups could be Depeche Mode and Nirvana... They used to hang around in 1991, spending endless summers in Florida playing tennis with fido dido t-shirts

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Well, I saw, on a small mountain road in France, a salamander coming out of a snake's mouth. I shouted like I was in a horror movie. Not sure it counts as someting " I've done " though...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, China, France, Germany, Guadeloupe, Italy, Madagascar, Mexico, Namibia, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France

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