CURRENT MISSION

to get a yacht

ABOUT ME

"whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

the best

Interests

Literature (particularly Latin and Russian literature), movies from the last century, music (from indie rock to folk and electronic music) , traveling, hiking, music festivals, food and drinks, harmony and chaos, contemporary theatre, wine and beer, adventures, sea, bar life, philosophy, living in nature, adventurous people and good story tellers.

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES:
Forman's "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", Fincher's "Fight Club", Jarmusch's "Coffee and Cigarettes", Jodorowsky's "The Holy Mountain", Rodriguez "From Dusk Till Dawn", Haneke's "Amour", Meadow's "This is England", Woody Allen "Love and Death" and many films of Werner Herzog, Ulrich Seidl, Jean Luc-Godard, Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock.

MUSIC:
Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, James Blake, The Doors, Deerhunter, The Strokes, The XX, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fleet Foxes, Burial, Radiohead, Nirvana, Grizzly Bear, DIIV, Joy Division, John Jacobs Niles, Nicolas Jaar, some of Russian underground music, Animal Collective, Fever Ray, PJ Harvey, Blawan etc.

BOOKS:
Julio Cortazar's short stories
Gabriel Garcia Marquez "100 years of Solitude"
Fyodor Dostoyevky "Crime and Punishment"
Margaret Mitchell "Gone with the wind"
Marcel Proust "Remembrance of Things Past" ("Swann's Way")
Axel Munthe "The Story of San Michele"
Knut Hamsun "Pan"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Probably my first hitchhiking tour through Europe - from Riga to Paris and back to Riga.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Latvia