CURRENT MISSION

to gain knowledge and to lose weight

ABOUT ME

I enjoy all the fine things in life, such as music, film, art, design, food etc. And I love to travel, which unfortunately I can't do so often. I'm a vegetarian. At first I'm sort of quiet, but later I like to talk very much, I just don't like small talk.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have couchsurfed a few times in Finland, wich was great fun, and once with my girlfriend in Scotland (also very nice). And I've hosted about a dozen people in Berlin so far.

Interests

Just about everything in Popular Culture: I love cinema (from silent to 50s/60s to recent stuff), music (I play bass guitar and sing in a choir occassionally), television, advertising, modern art, design as well as international politics, sociology, history, cooking (thai, italian, indian). I'm starting with with photography.

• arts
• culture
• singing
• design
• modern art
• photography
• dining
• cooking
• vegetarian
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• history
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Smiths/Morrissey, Pixies, Pulp, Marvin Gaye, Arcade Fire, Postal Service, Ladytron, Ben Folds, Sublime, Ramones, Decemberists, Weakerthans, Velvet Underground, early Stones, early Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, The Knife, Fever Ray, Tocotronic, Jenny Wilson, Emmy the Great, Cat Power, The XX, Robyn, Deerhunter, James Blake, The National

Films by Martin Scorsese, Jean-Luc Godard, Fritz Lang, Michael Haneke, Jean-Pierre Melville, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Quentin Tarantino, Ingmar Bergman, Jules Dassin, Francis Ford and Sofia Coppola, Michelangelo Antonioni, David Fincher, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Joel and Ethan Coen

The Wire, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Rome, Deadwood, Lost, The Sopranos, The Avengers, Twin Peaks, Twilight Zone, Simpsons, Freaks and Geeks, Six feet under, 30 Rock,

Cormac McCarthy, Sybille Berg, Clemens Meyer, Thomas Mann, Joseph Roth, Oscar Wilde

Teach, Learn, Share

Useless facts about films and music. Rather useful facts about German society and history as well as about Berlin.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States

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