"Jeder Mensch sollte das Recht haben, sich in der zweiten Hälfte des Tages von der ersten zu erholen."

- Wilhelm Genazino

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Sleeping on couches is my primary way of accommodation when on the road, I enjoy getting to know people and places through couchsurfing.

Interests

At the moment I am mostly preoccupied with photography. I also like to climb and and read.

• photography

Music, Movies, and Books

My top 5 in no particular order

Music

Songs for Drella, John Cale and Lou Reed
Songs for the Deaf, Queens of the Stone Age
Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia, The Dandy Warhols
On the Beach, Neil Young
Feed the Animals, Girl Talk

Movies

Office Space, Mike Judge
Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders
Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson
The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson
Dazed and Confused, Richard Linklater

Books

everything byJonathan Franzen
The Americans, Robert Frank
New Industrial Parks near Irvine, Lewis Baltz
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Harry Potter, so what?

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Guacamole. More importantly maybe, taking a 100 year old ferry along the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malawi, Netherlands, Rwanda, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Germany, Tanzania, United States