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Overview
About Me
I'm traveling for the first time alone To dizcover cities I didnt visit before
I'm a happy person traveling for fun and for food. I'm traveling with my guitar, I"m a singer also, happy to make some music in exchange of your hospitality !
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
Because I think it's a good way to travel and discover a country meeting the locals
Interests
Film-making, Writing, Singing, Painting and Reading while I'm travelling around, I also love so many things that it would be difficult to list them all, I am very curious and will always try something before saying yes or no.
I am fond of culture, arts, history, experiences, travels.
“Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.”
- arts
- culture
- photography
- music
- cinema
- cultures
- film photography
- cinematography
- japanese culture
- psytrance
- street photography
- burroughs
Music, Movies, and Books
I studied cinema for two years in France, I made also a preparation in a Literature degree, but I love Music, Stories and Movies for my own pleasure.
Music :
- Jazz : John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Errol Garner, Archie Shepp, Bill Evans, Eric Dolphy, Karl Cress, Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Jackie McLean and a lot more ...
- Bossa Nova : Tom Jobim, Caetano Veloso, Djavan, Vinicius de Moraes, Pixinguinha, Chico Buarque, Nara Leao, Elis Regina, Toquinho ...
- Classical/Spanish Guitar : John Williams, David Russel, Barrios, Villa Lobos, Paco de Lucia, Ernesto Lecuona, Julian Bream ...
- Japanese Music (I listen to it everyday maybe haha!) : Vocaloid, Susumu Hirazawa,, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Saraiya Goyou (the ost is beautiful) and other anime OST's, as well as Dir en Grey, Gazette, Girugamesh, Sambomaster etc..
French Cinema : Truffaut, Rohmer, Renoir, Pialat, Henri Georges Clouzot, Leos Carax, Bunuel, Bertrand Blier, Xavier Dolan...
International Cinema: Jodorowsky, Kubrick, Scorsese, Polanski, Hitchcock, Welles, Kitano, Miike, Sion Sono, Park chan Wook, Wong Kar Wai, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Lynch, Oliver Stone, Alan Parker, Walter Salles, Cronenberg, Amenabar, Inarritu, Cassavetes, Fellini, Visconti...
Literature: Kafka, Flaubert, Camus, Tanizaki, Osamu Dazai...
Animation: Sarayia Goyou, Stein's Gate, Gintama, Mind Game, Cat soup, Barakamon, Mononoke, Zankyou no Terror, Kids on the Slope, NHK, Mushishi, Requiem for the Phantom...
My favorite painters are Francis Bacon, Max Ernst, Kupka, Basquiat, Bocklin, Matisse and Chagall : )
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
It happened that I was on the island of Koh Lanta in Thailand, I was meeting some thai musician friends there, and had the chance to see the actual south asian aborigines, I got to play with their traditional style and singing during a big festival of locals, it was inspiring.
I've met many people by chance and through art, each one of them had a different soul and interesting insights, it would take me to write a book about all the adventures I've been living, since Prague's underground cave parties, or in Australia traveling six months with a bunch of hippies around the country, and lately in Tokyo where I had one of the best times of my life during 7 months I've lived with this extraordinary culture and people, this abundance of life and passion that I went through. All my life is an extraordinary adventure, I hope so is yours.
Teach, Learn, Share
Nothing more to add, it should be a dogma in our lives to teach, learn and share.
What I Can Share with Hosts
Friendship; music
Countries I’ve Visited
Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Monaco, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, Turkey
Countries I’ve Lived In
Australia, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Japan, Portugal, Spain, Thailand