CURRENT MISSION

To Observe (and occasionally participate) in The Human Comedy

ABOUT ME

A carbon based lifeform, an empathetic misanthrope with a heart of gold, a Slavic soul sporting a rather bohemian lifestyle. Currently living somewhere between Croatian coast, Ljubljana and Rome; currently residing in Krakow.

PHILOSOPHY

I fear that my personal philosophy strongly resembles that of E.M. Cioran....
But still, I'm a heck of a fun of a guy to be around with!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting and surfing.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Some.

Interests

I like to watch movies, read, listen to music, party, stay up late and travel. I never seem to get enough of it.

• partying
• movies
• traveling
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Classical (Bach, Beethoven, Verdi, Chopin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky...), New Age, Vintage, Alternative, Rock, 80s Pop, World, Jazz Manouche...

I adore prohibition era music. The sound of a scrappy 1930s phonograph record always gets to me.

Some of my favourites include: Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Moloko, The Rolling Stones, Radiohead, Frank Sinatra, Lana Del Rey, Pink Floyd, Django Reinhardt, Vangelis, The Doors, Thomas Newman, Woodkid, Kasabian, The National, Laibach, Bowie, EKV, MIA, Jeff Buckley, Alexandrov Red Army Choir, Calexico........

Movies (listed alphabetically):
"21 Grams", "Adaptation", "Alien", "American Psycho", "As Good As It Gets", "Before The Rain", "The Birds", "Bitka na Neretvi", "Blade Runner", "Cabaret", "Central do Brasil", "C'era una volta il West", "Le Cercle Rouge", "Chinatown", "Cidade de Deus", "Cool Hand Luke", "Das Leben der Anderen", "Dead Man", "Dogville", "Dom za vesanje", "Donnie Darko", "Ed Wood", "Enter the Void", "Fargo", "Festen", "The Godfather", "Goodfellas", "The Handmaiden", "High Fidelity", "Idi i smotri", "Inglourios Basterds", "Irreversible", "Jacob's Ladder", "Jagten", "Jodai-e Nader az Simin" (A Separation), "Ko to tamo peva", "El Laberinto del Fauno", "L.A. Confidential", "Leaving Las Vegas", "Lord of War", "Malcolm X", "Manhunter", "Melancholia", "Moartea domnului Lazarescu", "Mulholland Drive", "Network", "Odishon", "Oslo, 31 august", "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid", "Patton", "La pianiste" (Die Klavierspielerin), "Pulp Fiction", "Raging Bull", "Ran", "Requiem for a Dream", "Rushmore", "Russkiy kovcheg", "Skupljaci perja", "Stalker", "Take Shelter", "Taxidermia", "There Will Be Blood", "Three Billboards outside of Ebbing, Missouri", "Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley", "Traffic", "Vozvrascheniye", "Das weiße Band", "We Need to Talk About Kevin", "Wild At Heart", "The Wind That Shakes The Barley".......

Additionally, complete opuses of Terrence Malick ("Badlands", "Days of Heaven", "The Thin Red Line", "The New World") and the great late Stanley Kubrick (particularly "Barry Lyndon" and "Full Metal Jacket").

TV shows: "The Sopranos", "Carnivale", "Oz", "House M.D.", "Six Feet Under", "Mad Men" "The Wire", "Breaking Bad", "The Office" (BBC), "Extras", "Peep Show", "Fargo", "Narcos", "Black Mirror", "Wonder Showzen", "Rick and Morty", "Bojack Horseman"...

My favorite novelists are Russian classics and European modernists from Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgenyev, Dostoevskiy to J. Joyce, F. Kafka, M. Proust, V. Woolf. Today only a handful can achieve similar "craftsmanship", some of the contemporaries I've enjoyed are Elfriede Jelinek, Guenter Grass, Michel Houellebecq and G.G. Marquez.

Theatre: Naturalism, Symbolist and Absurd.

Poetry: Homer, Baudelaire & Yesenin.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

Teach, Learn, Share

Like I said, just ask!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Fascinating anecdotes.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Croatia, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Slovenia