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Overview

  • 18 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in German; learning English
  • 44, Male
  • Member since 2006
  • Trying never to be trapped in a 8 hours per day officejob
  • June 2006 I got my magister (like a master) in european e...
  • From Far South Germany near the Alps
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

... float on ...

ABOUT ME

I have just opened my own web-shop about nature-aquariums (like takashi amano), go for a look:

http://www.aquascaping-shop.de

PHILOSOPHY

See in every person a buddha (at least trying to...)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfing in lovely New Zealand (NZ rulez!)
Now I want to give back the karma, so let me host you (just if you fit in one of the categories below in "types of people I enjoy" :-)

Interests

Aquascaping, clubbing, trying to miss no afterhour, buddhist philosophy, permanent lucid dreaming, slippery aquaristics, ethnobotanics, dreaming about an own garden, hiking and pitching the tent somewhere in nature... oh, i want to float around in a samadhi-tank sometimes :-)

  • clubbing
  • gardening
  • shopping
  • hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Requiem for a dream, Pi, Akira, New Rose Hotel, Dogville, Holy Mountain, 23, Existenz, Naked Lunch, Das weisse Rauschen, Tiger and Dragon, Amelié, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Elling, Matrix 1, Funny Games, Butterfly Effect, ...

MUSIC: For clubbing and dancing I prefer harder electronical music (like Monika Kruse, Jeff Mills, Laurent Garnier, T.Raumschmiere) or outdoor psi-trance-events (hoodie-time!). At home I listen to nearly all kind of music (except heavy metal and all kind of (pop)chartmusic) like Tocotronic, Belle & Sebastian, Air, Sigur Ros, Manu Chao, Massive Attack, Yann Tiersen, Velvet Underground, Tilly & The Wall, ...

BOOKS: Everything from Robert Anton Wilson, H.P. Lovecraft, Aldous Huxley, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, Gustav Meyrink; Alice in Wonderland, Gravity's Rainbow, etc. But also a lot of non-belletristic books about buddhism, ethnobotanically used plants and quantum theories

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Giving birth to a lot of lil baby-catfishes :-)

(Hitch)Hiking 5 months through New Zealand, i wish i am back as soon as possible!!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can show you how to create beautiful nature-aquariums = aquascaping, ho to breed catfishes (esp. hypancistrus) and can talk heaps about ethnobotanical stuff, if anybody likes :-)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany

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