Hello there! I'm Tom, student of Modern Literature at Turin's University and stubborn traveler! Besides literature, my interests are playing and listening to music, writing, drawing, filmaking and film-watching. I'm a huge fan of Netflix's series and european cinema. I studied Clarinet for six years at Turin's Conservatory but my favourite instruments are - I know, not so original - piano and guitar! I'm starting my own movie production company with a couple of friends, directing videos is my biggest call. But I also love and need to write, the only way I found to put my mind and feelings in order. I play theatre and I'm volunteering in a NGO promoting youth mobility across european countries :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm here because I think it's a great way to meet new people and to know a foreign country from a personal, new prospective

Interests

• literature
• poetry
• music
• volunteering
• cinema
• tv series
• theatre

Music, Movies, and Books

I listen a lot of Jazz, Post-Rock and Pop, it depends from my mood. I'm also usually touched by classical music.
Here's a short list: Leoncavallo, Pergolesi [Serva Padrona], Rossini, Palestrina [Missa papae Marcelli], Sibelius [Finlandia, Violin Concerto no.1] , Weber [Clarinet Concerto no.2], Reich, Glass [The American Four Seasons], Lloyd Webber [Phantom], Verdi, Beethoven, Mozart, Redman, Richter [Vivaldi's Four Seasons], The Bad Plus, Wintergatan, Mannarino, Le luci della Centrale Elettrica, Nobraino, Baustelle, Lights & Motion, Immanu El, Davin Townsend, Steven Wilson, Björk, Teatro degli Orrori, Ratatat, Moderat, Fauve, Sigur Rós, Rökkurró, Serj Tankian, Appino, Alcest, Dire Straits, Mogway, Mono, Neutral Milk Hotel, Den Svenska Björnstammen, Kent, Solen, Veronica Maggio, TheGiornalisti, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hiromi Project.

My favourite tv-shows: Stranger Things, Suits, Mr. Robot, Narcos, Breaking Bad, Scrubs, The Young Pope, Game of Thrones, Vikings, I Medici, Shameless, Arrested Development, The Get Down, The good girls revolt, Transparent, The man in the high castle, The red oaks, Sneaky Pete.

My favourite movies: Dogville, The Tree of Life, Love, Melancholia, Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves (all Lars Von Trier), Youth, Lord Of The Rings, Harry Potter, Howl's Moving Castle, Il capitale umano, Pulp Fiction, The Hateful Eight, Taxi Teheran, Django (both versions), 2001 Space Odissey, Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Grand Budapest Hotel, Birdman, The Dreamers, Boyhood, The Lobster, Her, This must be the place, Being J. Malkovich, American Beauty.

The directors that I know will always do a good movie: LVT, Lynch, Sorrentino, Studio Ghibli, Noe, Tarantino, Virzì, Scorsese, Tornatore, Bertolucci, Luhrmann.
My favourite authors: AUTHORS: Saramago, Artaud, Baricco, Benni, Majakovskij, Giudici, Cechov, Tolstoj, Sorrentino, Zafon, Missiroli, Hikmet, Žižek, Nietzsche, Gunther Anders, Mishima, Knausgard.

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Sweden