CURRENT MISSION

To turn adventurism into a way of existence, to promote loving differences

ABOUT ME

Pitch on this life!
Curious, open-minded, thirsty for life, knowledge and experiences. Addicted to music, writing and traveling, the three great passions of mine besides the big crush for anthropology.
Love all cultural experiences, wicked and wild, underground and high above.
Into contemporary arts and sounds, people, ideas, progressive mode. Fight against violent social constructions. Care for differences. Love photography, film, creative writing, theories and theorizing.
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Blog i keep with my beloved travelmate and best friend Berit: www.avantourists.com
Also www.avantyristid.blogspot.com (in Estonian, but you can see lot of photos)
My current biggest project is about Soviet hippie culture legacy, the time before Couchsurfing. http://hipid.ee/?page_id=92
See the trailer of our novel "Seven worlds" to get some impression of the book of magic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjwzT_w9uO4
For experimental psychedelic music lovers, my band Voog: www.myspace.com/voooog
My first documentary film about transgender community in Indonesia: www.wariazone.com
See the trailer to get closer: http://youtu.be/bzmz-hvXwNk

PHILOSOPHY

F*ck happiness machines, there is another way

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As most of the time in my life so far I've been quite nomadic, then it's sometimes difficult to host. But I try.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Here's the video of an life-altering Couchsurfing experience, from Peru to Estonia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYr0-hsPon8

Interests

Anthropology, people, realities, music, writing, film-making, psychedelia, photography, arts, sounds, alternatives, queer, sexuality, waria, mother earth and its spirits, traveling

• arts
• culture
• writing
• books
• contemporary art
• photography
• documentaries
• drinking
• boating
• traveling
• blogging
• magic
• music
• hunting
• anthropology

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Grails, The Wooden Shjips, Massive Attack, Air, Loscil, The Doors, Nine Inch Nails, Ozric Tentacles, Neil Young, Graig Pruess, Electric Orange, Solaris, Mono, Dead Can Dance, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, OM, Ladytron, Ulrich Schnauss, Radiohead, The Cinematic Orchestra, Elbow, Dungen, Talk Talk, Mogwai, Earth, Bark Psychosis, Mew, Thomas Newman, Björk, Jaga Jazzist, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Maserati, Jefferson Airplane, The Sugacubes, Gong, The Velvet Underground, CAN, The Sea and Cake, Porcupine Tree, Joy Division, Mr. Bungle, Brant Bjork, PJ Harvey, Colour Haze, Nick Drake, Ravi Shankar, Masada, A. Artemiev, Parks, Kaya Project, Mathias Grassow, The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation, Chick Corea, Sun Dial, Nadja, Boris, Autechre, Boards of Canada, Tame Impala, Ben Frost, Barn Owl, Kawabata Makoto etc.
From Estonia: Sven Grünberg, Arvo Pärt, Riho Sibul, Mess, Radar, Tiit Kikas, Villu Veski, Pedigree, Shelton San, Smõuk, Phlox, Romb, Id Rev, Ans.Andur, Galaktlan, Voog etc
+ experimental, world music, contemporary classical

Film: Lynch (Mulholland Dr., Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Inland Empire); Jarmusch (Limits of Control, Dead Man, Coffee and Sigarettes); Gilliam (Tideland, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Brazil); Jodorowsky (The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre, El Topo); Kurosawa (Dreams), Linklater (Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly); Tarkovski (Solaris, Andrei Rublev, Ivan's Childhood, The Mirror); Mikhalkov (Burnt by the Sun); Ki-duk Kim (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring); Von Trier (Dogville, Manderlay, Dancer in the Dark, Antichrist) etc.
+ experimental and ethnological film!
+ Books would do as well

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sleeping in a tiny maasai hut in Africa with those wonderful maasai people.
Published a book "Seven worlds" about mental traveling, psychedelic experiences and identity transformation through our trip in Peru and Bolivia.
Having a drink with Martin Gore from Depeche Mode.
Living with shamans for a week in Peruvian jungle.
Becoming a wicked poetess while traveling on a boat in Amazon jungle.
Spending no nights in hostel during 3-week trip to Oman.
Living and traveling 4 months in Russia!
Finding myself as a rasta woman in Benin, forming a band and giving a remarcable show for audience 1000+
Shooting documentary in Indonesian underground, most of the time being the only woman with vagina in the crowd
Graduating double master degrees cum laude (OMG!)
5 months of anthropological fieldworks through Java, Sulawesi and Papua and their inspiring gendered realities of the waria

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Peru, Poland, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Estonia, France, Indonesia, Russian Federation, United Kingdom

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