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Overview

  • 11 references 9 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Czech, English, German; learning Spanish
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • programme director of a film festival Summer Film School ...
  • university degree from czech language+literature and movi...
  • From Hradec Kralove, Czech republic
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

I came to this world with nothing and I leave with nothing but love, everything else is just borrowed (Mike Skinner aka The Streets)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I want to offer my flat, my time, my conversation abilities, my city, my country...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

until now: 14 great CS experiences, 6 great Hospitalityclub experiences

Interests

Anna Gazdova + family + friends
Movies
Literature
Sports (active - indoor hockey, cross country skying + tv)
Slam poetry
Second hands
Slavia Praha
Food + cooking
Perfumes
Horse races

  • literature
  • poetry
  • perfumes
  • dining
  • cooking
  • movies
  • tv
  • sports
  • hockey
  • horse racing
  • history

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES
Love and Death (Woody Allen)
Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
Terminator 2: The Judgement Day (James Cameron)
Tuvalu (Veit Helmer)
Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
Come and See (Elem Klimov)
Fight Club (David Fincher)
Caravaggio (Derek Jarman)
Royal Tennenbaums (Wes Anderson)
Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen)
Ulrich Seidl
Michael Haneke
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Bela Tarr
MUSIC
Asian Dub Foundation, Belle and Sebastian, Blondie, David Bowie, Daft Punk, Die Fantastischen Vier, Gogol Bordello, Jack Johnson, Kaiser Chiefs, The Killers, Mnozil Bras, Moloko, Moby, Nick Cave, Nirvana, NOFX, Susanne Vega, System of a Down, The Streets, Just Jack, Amy Winehouse, Basement Jaxx, Cansei de ser sexy, Enter Shikari, Kate Nash, Lily Allen, Mika, Robyn, Shitdisco, The Hives, The Teenagers, The Wombats, Xavier Baumaxa, DJ Ventolin, Scissorhands, Late of the pier, Cokovoko, Just Jack, White lies, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
BOOKS
Edward Lear, Boris Vian, Raymond Queneau, Woody Allen, Chuck Palahniuk, J.R.R. Tolkien, Alexander Pushkin, Ernest Hemingway, Daniil Charms, Jorge Luis Borges, Harry Mulisch, Stefan Zweig
ART
Lucian Freud, H.R. Giger, Alfred Kubin, Rene Magritte, Franz Marc, Gerhard Richter, Valie Export, Caravaggio, Giotto, Andrea Mantegna, Raffael, Hans Baldung, Albrecht Dürer, Caspar David Friedrich, Hieronymus
Bosch, Pieter Breugel, Gerard David, Geertegen tot Sint Jans, Petrus Christus, Hans Memling, Rembrandt, Jan van Eyck, Rodier van der Weyden, Francisco Goya, B.E. Murillo
PHOTOGRAPHY
Henri Cartier Bresson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Roy Stuart

Teach, Learn, Share

Slam poetry (advanced)
Cooking (less advanced)
Film theory and history (advanced)
Literature theory and history (advanced)
Cross-country skying (intermediate)
Perfumes (intermediate)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Czech Republic, Germany

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