CURRENT MISSION

Happiness is only real when shared

ABOUT ME

I'm friendly, practical, down to earth, witty... I love simple things in life. I always enjoy going out to dance, gigs, film festivals, japanese restaurants, beaches, mountains, or wandering around without destination. It's always great to be with my friends wherever, laughing about myself (I'm clumsy!), talking sillynesses, as much as having long talks about serious or controversial subjects. Sometimes I go to Buddhist temples, where I find my inner peace in the crazyness of a big city like São Paulo... I am very inclined to their beliefs. I go to the seaside whenever is possible, cause I need the energy of the sea.
Vinyl fan (miss those albums...). Used to play football when i was a child. I'm very open to new ideas and interests and enjoy sharing new experiences.
Have never seen the snow (yet!). Incrediably passionate about films and music. They feed my soul. One of my weaknesses are British indie rock bands (many of them from Scotland), north-american indies and European films.
humm, that's not all :)

PHILOSOPHY

Some quotes:

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some
people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new
understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for a while, leave footprints on
our hearts, and we are never, ever the same."
Flavia Weedn

"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?" Charles M. Schulz (it's no wonder that I like Snoopy and Charlie Brown a lot!!)

"I wish two drinks were always in me" The Strokes (loove them!)

"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'" George Bernard Shaw

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did
do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." Mark Twain

"When the path of friends meet, the whole world looks
like home for awhile" Herman Hesse

"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." George Eliot

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes"
"Be the change you want to see in the world"
(both from Gandhi)

Don't give others the power to determine your worth and the worth of the things you do.

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting when is possible, going to couchsurfing meetings and events.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

During my three months trip around Europe from August to November (2007), I was hosted by amazing and unforgettable people in Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid and Lisbon. Also was at CS meetings in London (Hyde Park, twice, and Chandos Pub once), Amsterdam (some Belgium bar) and Berlin (dinner in a restaurant). Ahh and free-hugs days in my city, Sampa (São Paulo).

Intereses

Films, music, philosophy, different languages and cultures, friendship, buddhism, meditation, psychology, travels, knowledge sharings, and much more!

• culture
• festivals
• film festivals
• dancing
• meditation
• drinking
• pub crawls
• movies
• music
• sailing
• buddhist
• soccer
• emergency services
• languages
• psychology
• beaches
• mountains

Música, películas y libros

some bands/artists that i like lots are Beatles, Pearl Jam, Portishead, Beastie Boys, New Order, Radiohead, David Bowie, Rita Lee, Weezer, Pink Floyd, U2, The Killers, Ramones, Jimmy Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, Bebel Gilberto, Amy Winehouse, Muse, Teenage Fanclub, Monica Salmaso, Faith no More, Chico Buarque, Tom Jobim, The Police, Elis Regina, The Cure, Kaiser Chiefs, The Clash, Deep Purple, The Smiths, The Doors, Damien Rice, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Joy Division, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pixies, Marisa Monte, Blur, Madonna, Belle & Sebastian, The Who, REM, Bjork, Annie Lennox, Arctic Monkeys, Oasis, Cansei de Ser Sexy (or just CSS), Jesus and Mary Chain, Living Colour, Primal Scream, Smashing Pumpkins, Sigur Rós, Queen, The Long Blondes, Snow Patrol, The Shins, Ash, Art Brut, The Gossip, Daft Punk, Cat Power, Klaxons, Racounteurs, The Fratellis, Los Hermanos, Panic! at the Disco, Police Tokio Club, Tv on the Radio, Mystery Jets, MGMT... (to be continued!) also classical, Bartok, Chopin, Schubert, Stravisnky, Mahler...

Movies, better go to directors i admire: Stanley Kubrick, Michel Gondry, Akira Kurosawa, Wong Kar-Wai, Peter Greenway, Wim Wenders, Fernando Meirelles, Pedro Almodóvar, David Lynch, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Hitchcock, François Truffaut, Paul Thomas Anderson, Woody Allen, Takeshi Kitano, Hans Weingartner, Wolfgank Becker, Sofia Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, Julio Medem, Federico Fellini, Antonioni, Luis Buñuel, Spike Lee, Walter Salles, Jorge Furtado, Frank Capra, Lars Von Trier, Oliver Stone, Richard Linklater, Louis Malle, Michael Moore, Lukas Moodysson, Mike Figgis, Francis Ford Coppola, Tim Burton, Rosselini, Mike Leigh, Clint Eastwood, Spielberg, John Cassavetes, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karim Aïnouz, Martin Scorsese, Charles Chaplin, Robert Redford, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Luc Besson, Jean-Marc Vallée, Ingmar Bergman, hummm let me see... I've probably forgot some directors i really like a lot!! Movies and music are my life!

I like to read Machado de Assis, José Saramago, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Fernando Pessoa, Clarice Lispector, Jorge Luis Borges, Rubem Alves, Leon Tolstoi, Jean Paul Sartre, Arthur Schopenhauer, Maquiavel, Albert Camus, Nietzsche, Fiódor Dostoiévski, J.D. Salinger, Nick Hornby, Paul Auster, Edgar Alan Poe, Herman Hesse, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Garcia Marques, Bukowski, Oliver Sacks, Alain de Botton, Freud, Jung, Seneca... But I still know just a bit of them, I'm learning...

Algo increíble que he hecho

For me this is amaaaazing: I have never been abroad before, and the Eurotrip started when I bought The Police gig ticket... This is my review:
http://www.screamyell.com.br/musicadois/police_liveinlondon.htm

When I was in lovely Edinburgh and crazy London, I have done some interviews and signed reports:
http://migre.me/5RtEw
http://migre.me/5RtGB
http://migre.me/5RtHD
http://migre.me/5RtIC
http://migre.me/5RtJR
http://migre.me/5RtKP
http://migre.me/5RtLv
http://migre.me/5RtMf

Enseña, aprende, comparte

I can teach you Portuguese. And share thoughts about life, culture, or anything else.

Países que he visitado

Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Países en los que he vivido

Brazil

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