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Overview

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  • Fluent in Czech, English; learning Chinese, German, Spanish
  • 32, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • Student
  • M.Sc. in nanophysics
  • From Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic
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About Me

I am a physicist from Prague. Lived in Taiwan and currently moving to Barcelona.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to meet interesting people and experience new cultures from inside.

Interests

  • literature
  • contemporary art
  • traveling
  • international relations
  • philosophy
  • physics
  • science
  • nature
  • cinematography
  • cultural anthropology
  • independent cinema
  • post-rock
  • contemporary music

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Crime and Punishment, Cat's Cradle, Survivor, Hopscotch, The Elementary Particles, Platform, Sense of an Ending, Life and Times of Michael K., The Human Stain, Purge, Sandman, Transmetropolitan, Master and Margerita, Invisible Cities, Solar, Immortality, The Savage Detectives, Foucault's Pendulum, Magus, The Stranger

Movies: The New World, Fight Club, Dogville, Fountain, Manderlay, The Seventh Seal, There Will Be Blood, Love Exposure, Sunrise, Stalker, Werckmeister Harmonies, Gravity, The Corpse, Ex Drummer, Stoker, Eraser Head, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, The Whistleblower, Sunshine, 4 months 3 weeks 2 days, Spirited Away, Nausicaa, Oldboy, Cloud Atlas, Run Lola Run, Once Were Warriors, Confessions, Akira, Michael Clayton, Elite Squad, Consequences of Love, Incendies, The Turin Horse, A Separation, The Secret in Their Eyes, Taxidermia, Wadjda, The Best Offer, The Great Beauty and so on... (yes, I am a movie freak little bit - I visit film festivals etc.)

Art: Bosch, Helnwein, Chapman brothers, Dalí, Turner, El Greco, Caravaggio, Van Gogh, Munch, Schiele, Bansky, Kandinskij, Malevich

TV: GoT, True Detective, Twin Peaks, Boardwalk Empire, Dexter, Code Geass, House of Cards, Black Books, South Park, Robot Chicken, Sherlock, Breaking Bad, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Death Note, Luther, The Knick

Music: Crystal Castles, Karnivool, 65daysofstatic, Dream Theater, Maybeshewill, God Is An Astronaut, After the Burial, The Faceless, Textures, TesseracT, Lis Er Stille, Scale the Summit, Within the Ruins, Veil of Maya, dEUS, Between the Buried and Me, All Shall Perish, The Human Abstract, My Dying Bride, Periphery, Animals As Leaders, Long Distance Calling, Solefald, Solstafír, Sigur Rós, Circle Takes the Square, August Burns Red, Wax Tailor, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Portishead, Massive Attack, Swallow the Sun, Deftones, Crosses, Opeth, Astronautalis, Dan Dankmeyer, Intronaut, Isis, Cult of Luna, Atoma, Falloch, Agalloch, November's Doom, Unexpect, Die Antwoord, Radiohead, Vildhjarta, Tyrant of Death, The Algorithm, Exxasens, The Butterfly Effect, Cog, Dead Letter Circus, Deafheaven, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Lantlos, Dragged into Sunlight etc. (check my last.fm profile if you want - http://www.last.fm/user/integer7)

Games: Borderlands, Portal 2, Far Cry 3, World of Goo, Limbo

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I'm still waiting for my opportunity to move the world. But travelling around Asia is pretty amazing, indeed.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Luxembourg, Macao, Malaysia, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Taiwan

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