CURRENT MISSION

meet new friends and visit cool places.

ABOUT ME

I'm an open-minded young man from Antwerp, Belgium. I'd like to meet new people from all around the globe (north, south, east and west). Really into culture, history, film, music. I love to wear stripes. I consider pigeons the rats of the sky, although my name is the Hebrew word for it. I'm member of the "historians make better lovers" - group on Facebook (although I haven't really participated). I hate the Comic Sans MS font. Although I'm not in favour of Republicanism, the fact that Condoleezza Rice gave a private piano concert for Elizabeth II to end her term made me mellow.

PHILOSOPHY

machiavellism
stubborn atheist
You are not what you eat.
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information" (Oscar Wilde)
"Après moi, le déluge" (Regina Spektor)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'd like to use this medium to come into contact with other people, but of course to travel cheaply as well. Since I rent an apartment, I'm not allowed to make my own couch available, but that doesn't mean I couldn't guide people around the hood.

Interests

music, film, russian czars, middle ages, languages, some rather old art (friedrich, piranesi, fuseli).
I think Katey Holmes only knows two faces (there's always been something with the mouth).
I love to know useless information, like the fact that the f-word is the abbreviation of "Fornicate Under Command of the King", and that the ancient Greek oracles were actually epileptic women.

• arts
• culture
• concerts
• traveling
• music
• piano
• atheism
• history
• languages
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

music:
http://www.last.fm/user/visigoot/
soulwax, amon tobin, m.i.a., radiohead, squarepusher, vitalic, 65daysofstatic, simian mobile disco, goldfrapp, gossip, bright eyes, kraftwerk, the go! team, daft punk, fischerspooner, goldfrapp, beirut, dresden dolls, apparat, rufus wainwright, lcd soundsystem, riot in belgium, justice, portishead, the knife, hot chip, yonderboi, godspeed you! black emperor, new young pony club, whitest boy alive, philip glass, les rythmes digitales, zoot woman, badly drawn boy, ladytron, kraftwerk, dj shadow, blondie, cocorosie, sigur ros, chromeo, aphex twin, battles, whitey, hercules & love affair, antony & the johnsons

movies:
donnie darko, mulholland drive, big fish, the nightmare before christmas, the truman show, this is spinal tap, x-men, goodbye lenin!, man bites dog

tv: Six Feet Under, Carnivale, The Wire, Twin Peaks, Battlestar Galactica, South Park, Blackadder, Family Guy, Abfab, Fawlty Towers, even Desperate Housewives.

books:
dante alleghieri (la divina commedia), dostojevski (crime & punishment), umberto eco (the name of the rose), donna tartt (the secret history), aldous huxley (brave new world), choderlos de laclos (dangerous liaisons)

Teach, Learn, Share

I prefer autodidactism.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, Germany, Russian Federation, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium