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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English; learning French, German, Spanish
  • 48, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • computer programmer
  • mainly autodidact
  • From Tilburg
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

expand my consciousness

ABOUT ME

Most of the time fun and easygoing. I like a good conversation.

PHILOSOPHY

think for yourself.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Not so much as of yet..

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I stayed with people with my former girlfriend a few times, that was very very nice. I had no guests at my house yet via this site. But I've been a host on numerous occasions to people who needed a place to stay for a while.

Interests

Life in general and most aspects of it.

  • piano

Music, Movies, and Books

Writers:
Louis Ferdinand Celine.
Charles Bukowski.
Jorge Luis Borges.

Music:
-Foetus
-Cop Shoot Cop
-Unsane
-Oxbow
-Dillinger Escape Plan
-Nine Inch Nails
-Big Black
-etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. [Shellac, Sonic Youth, Mule, Sisters Of Mercy, Vampire Rodents, Captain Beefheart, 16 Horsepower, This Heat, Shit & Shine, Girls vs. Boys, Harvey Milk, Popul Vuh, Jon Hassell, Black Dice...]

Movies:
Stalker - Tarkovsky
La Notte - Antonioni
L'eclisse - Antonioni
L'avventura - Antonioni
Mouchette - Bresson
Ran - Kurosawa
Jim Jarmush / Roy Andersson / Kaurismaki, that kind of things..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Got a daughter, and raising her, is the best thing.
Getting born on this planet also is pretty amazing.
I survived a carcrash once, that was pretty amazing, I'm thinking now that I actually might have died and came back in an alternate reality.

Teach, Learn, Share

Free of mind.

What I Can Share with Hosts

A good conversation, if you have a piano I could play you a song.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands

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