ABOUT ME

I don't know how to define me, but I would say I am quite open-minded, very curious nature, specially towards different cultures and languages.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting, meeting and sharing my experiences with people from a different culture than mine.

Interests

All that foreign cultures include : language, food, traditions, etc.

A lot of Music : Jazz (Davis > Pastorius > Simone > John Zorn...) ; Electro (Daft Punk > Justice > Goldfrapp...) ; Trip Hop (Massive Attack > Tricky > DJ Shadow > Morcheeba...) ; Rock (RATM > The Black Keys > La Femme...) ; Folk (Dylan > Van Ronk > Joel Alme...). About everything !! Let's add Buena Vista Social Club, Led Zeppelin, Lizst, Beethoven, Luz Casals, Amalia Rodrigues, Alt-J...

Movies : From David Lynch to Stanley Kubrick with Wes Anderson or the Coen Bros but Jean-Luc Godard and maybe Paul Thomas Anderson or Joe Swanberg but, of course, Woody Allen... and a lot more !

I could easily talk about Sport (Rugby, Ice Hockey, Football...), Literature (Beat Generation, Hemingway, Dostoïevski, Proust...), Arts in general, Video games, Love... Life...

• arts
• culture
• literature
• dining
• clubbing
• movies
• video games
• music
• jazz
• sports
• soccer
• hockey
• rugby
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Let's pick 5 movies (really hard !) : Manhattan (Allen), Life Aquatic (Anderson), Fargo (Coen Bros), Clockwork Orange (Kubrick), The Host (Joon). Ouch. REALLY hard.

Let's pick 5 books (Oh God) : In the shadow of young girls in flower (Proust), Man's fate (Malraux), La Ciudad y los perros (Llosa), For whom the bell tolls (Hemingway), The Book of Disquiet (Pessoa)...

And finally, let's pick 5 albums : An awesome wave (Alt-J), The Battle of Los Angeles (Rage against the Machine), Attack & Release (Black Keys), Animals (Pink Floyd), Time Out (Dave Brubeck). Hmmmmm. OK. I give up. Impossible...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Death Valley... the silence...

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Ecuador, England, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Senegal, Spain, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States