i live half of the year in Madrid (winter) and
half in the Basque Country (summer).

If you're an artist/musician/human being interested on sharing a studio/rehearsal space/place in the heart of Malasaña, Madrid, let me know!!

Sorry young folks for the long old school profile. I wrote that many years ago

ABOUT ME

My name is Sergio, I've got a moustache and some surviving skills. Living in love/hate with Madrid since 2007. I'm not a person. I'm a creature. I try to feed the angel and the devil inside me without hurting anyone. I like sarcasm and sometimes I'm prettier when I shut the fuck up... but I'm ready to laugh even in the worst moments, and sure I will.

In this world order I'm a hairy-eared musician. A professional photographer. An old fashioned cinema projectionist. . An absent-minded graphic designer. A sloppy thing-breaker. A tidy thing-fixer. An occasional slave. A future citizen?

In the nature, I follow the sound of certain music. The smell of some people. The feel of ticklish situations. The look of fresh beauty, and the taste of being satisfied. (this sounds fucking pretentious, I know, would simply say that I'm a pervert of the senses, but I wouldn't want to scare you...)

My passion is music. So there's some info about my musical projects if you are interested:

- I'm making music with real instruments and I record it on magnetic tape. No computers. You can listen to it at http://deconia.bandcamp.com/

- Previous musical affair was called Monotonus. Is dead now.

http://monotonus.bandcamp.com/

- I used to have a band of buskers with whom I discovered couc7hsurfing. Rústicos Acústicos. Do you remember us?. We do remember you. Good times. For the eternity, here is a short super-8 film of our 2010 tour:

http://vimeo.com/20027683 enjoy!

PHILOSOPHY

I have my principles. If you don't like them I have others. Let's have a good time. Let's get lost.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I think CS is a great idea in order to improve this rotten society, cause World, honey, we need to talk...

The first couch surfing experience in Scandinavia was unbelievable, i automatically began to be more involved in this project, and host people in my house.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

As Rústicos, and through CS We surfed couches and met amazing people during our trips in:
- Norway & Sweden (Oslopido tour 08)
- France, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia (Tourapest 09)
- France, Germany, Czech Republic (Hail Hymsar 2010)
- France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden ( Rustiania 2011)

Since September 08 I'm hosting tons of people at home. Sometimes good, sometimes better, some good people, some good friends, some conversations, some silence, some laughs, some party, some love, some learning, some nonsense... Always positive experiences!

2023 update about my first negative experience:

I had a Chinese girl named Qi who took advantage of my hospitality. She pretended to be my long lost friend just to be hosted 10 days for free. I was considering to cancel the hosting in the last minute because, as we were talking in Instagram, She told me about how he was taking advantage of guys from Tinder in whom she had no interest, just to have favors from them and even meet them in real life just to laugh at them. She sent me screenshots of those interactions, and in her profile she stated that males sucks. Nonetheless, one of this "guys that suck" brought her to my place in a Porsche.

Anyway, i gave her the benefit of the doubt because She was coming from a 3 year lockdown, from another different culture and reality than mine.

Once in my place, it was weird, she was openly flirtatious, making jokes about me being her boyfriend and strange comments about me masturbating when I asked her to let me know when She was going to be at home or not.

We had stupid "political" arguments on the second day where She yelled at me, in my house, telling me stupid things like I was mansplaining, which I didn't like at all. After that, She was avoiding me and not following the house rules. I was being very nice to her, cooking elaborated Spanish dishes for her and paying myself for the food, inviting her to pizza etc. She never invited or paid anything for me and at the same time she was posting in Instagram all the fancy and expensive food she was eating around, one day She said "I'm cooking!" so i waited for 3 hours and she showed up with a small dish just for her, then She laughed at me.

After some days of not seeing her at all i told her to look for another arrangement as I'm in Couchsurfing only to socialize. Then She said she was sorry and that we were friends and stuff, so i accepted her apologies and have her a second chance but after that She kept ignoring me and avoiding me. So i just kept going with my businesses and waited for her to leave my place.

She was staying awake at nights watching her phone, sleeping half of the day (she slept in my workshop so i couldn't use it) waking up in the afternoon and disappearing without saying a word despite me being at home, and coming back really late at night. I tried to get out of my schedule so we could talk a little sometimes, which wasn't very nice as She was complaining about everything all the time.

We matched on tinder during her stay here and She said to me there "finally!" But I didn't said anything back during her stay here because I don't use Couchsurfing to hook up and i would never make a surfer uncomfortable in that field.

After 10 days being the worst surfer I've ever had, she left and sent me a message saying that She was grateful and wanted to invite me for dinner, i said ok but She didn't seem much interested in actually doing that, she was cold and distant in WhatsApp after she left my place, showing 0 interest to engage in any conversation at all.

So, two weeks after She left, we were talking on Tinder and i asked her if she wanted to meet, i thought that maybe that was her real interest in me, but she was saying that we had "different views" I didn't understand what She meant by that, like we have different views about what? Different views so we can't be friends? So we can't go for food? So we can't talk? So i gently asked what did she mean and why did she matched me on tinder, out of curiosity, not implying anything more in my question. Then She reacted, like She always did, understanding all kind of shit that I'm not saying, or even thinking, and then She blocked me in the middle of an educated conversation. I realized She never cared about meeting me or be my friend as she said, she just used me to get free accomodation. She was really so uneducated, the most selfish and ungrateful surfer I've ever had.

I left a negative review with a little resume of this experience, and when She saw it She left a negative review telling all kind of bullshit about me, horrible things that are not true like I said trans people don't exist, that i'm mansplaining, insulting me, calling me needy and pushy and talking about my private dating life in public. When She published that, then automatically a previous positive reference I wrote went public too on her profile. Couchsurfing deleted the negative reference even in the CS guidelines is kinda clear that the first reference to be posted is the one that should stay.

I complained to the Couchsurfing support system, because her reference was not describing the Couchsurfing experience, it wasn't accurate and relevant like the guidelines stated it must be, and on top of that, She's exposing my private life in public and calling me names, which is not only against CS guidelines it's against basic education and respect.

Seems like Couchsurfing don't care about people disrespectfing others publicly on their platform, they don't care about users going against the very Couchsurfing spirit that started this project, they don't care about the well being of future potential host of this person and in general they don't care about anything as long as they're making money.

I've been a proud member of this community for 16 years but this is getting rotten and I'll think about it twice before hosting again.

And a little disclaimer for young surfers that are very passionate about politics: if going to someone else's house and discovering that they don't share your political ideas is "the worst thing that can happen to you" just don't use Couchsurfing, pay for an echo chamber in Airbnb.

In the past "open-minded" used to mean that your mind is open, like a camera with a wide-angle lens, so you're allowed to watch more, no matter if you like what you see or not. Nowadays being "open-minded" means that you choose what to look at from the reality in front of you. Welcome to Bullshitsurfing

End of the Update.

Interests

MUSIC, jokes, people, girls, animals, plants, food, love, laughing, cinema, photography, good vibrations, conquering the world, new experiences (i prefer the good ones, but even bad ones turn out to be good ones most of the times)...

I don't watch TV and I DON'T LIKE PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL!! I have nothing to say about teams, games, championships, colours etc... More people may have died building venues for Qatar 2022 than will play in the 2014 World Cup. Maybe is time to stop supporting football? yes, IT IS!

• music
• adventure
• knowledge
• love
• experiences

Music, Movies, and Books

Fugazi, Tom Waits, Za!, Pere Ubu, Shellac, the Del-Byzanteens, Howlin' Wolf, Television, Tom Verlaine, Constantines, John Lurie - Lounge Lizards - Marvin Pontiac, Marc Ribot, Morphine, June of 44, Gang of Four, Refused, the Ex, Aina, Violent Femmes, the Make-Up, PJ Harvey, Roots Manuva, Bluetip, Archie Bronson Outfit, Charles Mingus, Inoren Ero Ni, John Coltrane, Los Cuantos, Faraquet, Smart Went Crazy, Beauty Pill, Nisei, Abhinanda, Breach, Cat Power, John Parish, Solo los Solo, A Room With a View, Bonobo, Q and not U, At the Drive-In, The Dismemberment Plan, Audience, Atom Rhumba, Pantera, Blonde Redhead, Clem Snide, Dut, Les Savy Fav, SNFU, Sufjan Stevens, Wilco, Tim Fite, Josele Santiago, Los Enemigos, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Nina Simone, Battles ... and many many many many many more! I would like to sing 'em all in your shower.Movies: zoolander, naked gun, top secret, life of brian, this is spinal tap... i also laugh with Lars Von Trier, Jarmush, Wenders, Haneke, Cronenberg, Meirelles, Allen, Coen bros, DiCillo, Aronofsky, Fellini, Chabrol, Arcand, de la Iglesia, Forman, Reznak... and some others i can't remember and some others i don't know. (i worked in a cinema!)Books:a lot! today I recommend "La Mano Invisible" from Isaac Rosa. "Portnoy's Complaint" by Philip Roth. "Plop" "Frío" and "Subte" by Rafael Pinedo are amazing... (I enjoy others like Saramago, Amis, Bukowski, Borroughs, Nabokov, Loriga, Welsh, Dovstoieski, Salinger... oh... this book "please kill me!"... well.. there's too many)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once my whole body crossed a vagina from the inside, that was amazing! then I started to have all kind of problems... but it was worth it.

Amazingness is just around the corner, watch out!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach how not to dance
how to play the guitar very badly
how to play chess and lose
how to... (censored by CS)
how to cook some delicious dishes and lick your fingers (I'm a dirty Basque cook)

so much to learn, so much to share!

What I Can Share with Hosts

my inner child

Countries I’ve Visited

Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Spain

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