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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
to gain a wide knowledge in the world, cultures, and people we live amongst.
ABOUT ME
I'm French/Australian/German/Lithuanian/English/Spanish, I come from a family of artists.. I have travalled extensively since early childhood. It's the best. I would call myself intelligent, proactive and spontaneous, and also quite easy-going, positive and mellow as well. I'm interested in Film, Art, things of an earthy nature, I love live music and all those wonderful things.
PHILOSOPHY
enjoy everyday, learn something, laugh, love.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I've told people to research this site if they're interested in traveling. It's brilliant.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
All very positive!
Interests
Finding and conquering the bonus levels of existence, the long drive back from anywhere that necessitates a long drive back, rainbows at night, finding bones whilst adventuring, total desert isolation, aimless driving, Howling winds, desert skies, rusty things, decay, beauty, ugliness, beautiful-ugliness, joy, madness, impossible things, antique stores and their unique ambiances, the life of inanimate objects, the art and music of the psychedelic era, abandoned buildings and the treasure therein, microcosms, weasels, junkyards, the infinite possibilities of the English language, old typewriters, philosophy, psychology, studio art, film, dancing, world music, ayurveda, meditating, circus arts, theatre arts, photography, salvador dali, brian froud, goya, matisse, degas, pissaro, renaissance, adventures, vegetarianism, activism, jasmine tea, vintage cars & perhaps taking part in the revolution.
- arts
- photography
- beauty
- dancing
- traveling
- cars
- music
- live music
- world music
- psychology
Music, Movies, and Books
Film: Here are a few of my favorite Directors and Films
The Science Of Sleep
Frida
Pirate Radio
High Fidelity
Skidoo
Amelie
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
Pricilla, Queen of the desert
My Fair Lady
Singing In The Rain
West Side Story
Cabaret
Almost Famous
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Barbarella
Bunny and the Bull
La Vie De Bohème
Labyrinth
The Blues Brothers
A Hard Day's Night
Fight Club
John Waters
Dark Crystal
Harold And Maude
Breakfast On Pluto
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane ?
Help!
The Kind And I
Where the Wild Things Are
Phantom of the Paradise
Alfred Hitchcock
Hayao Miyazaki
David Lynch
Orson Welles
Music: So much: Blues/Rock & Roll / Classic Rock/ Rockabilly / Swamp/Country Rock / Americana I also love the Oldies, the Crooners, all kinds of world music..Spanish Guitar, Indian Hymn/Chant, Raggae...
To Name a few:
Syd Barrett
The Velvet Underground
David Bowie
Seu Jorge
Tom Waits
Jesus Leonardo Contreras
Tankus the Henge
Florence and the Machine
Adele
Gaucho Gypsy Jazz Band
Robert Johnson
mixes & mashups
Carter Family
Rino Gaetano
Neil Young
Lene Lovich
T. Rex
Danny Elfman
Nick Cave
Ozzy Osbourne
The Specials
Bon Iver
Manu Chao
Pink Floyd
Terrakroma
Massive Attack
Joy Division
New Order
Leonard Cohen
Wings
Man Man
Blaise Smith Music
Jónsi
Ryan Adam Wells
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
AIR
Bella Durmiente
Muddy Waters
Cream
Creedence Clearwater Revival
ELVIS PRESLEY
John Lennon
13th Floor Elevators
Bob Dylan
Janis Joplin
Sister Calypso
Beiruit
Ramones
Danzig
Cocteau Twins
Devendra Banhart
Dreamers lane
Sex Pistols
Sigur Rós
Black Sabbath
The Sound Of Animals Fighting
Björk
Beach House
Bradford Cox
Led Zeppelin
The Cure
The Smiths
Queen
Gogol Bordello
The Buzzcocks
Fleet Foxes
Iron & Wine
Johnny Cash
Radiohead
Empire of the Sun
CocoRosie
Murder On The Boat
Genna Marabese
Dylan Tal
Iggy Pop
Howlin' Wolf
Musiques du monde
Jeff Buckley
The Beatles
VINICIO CAPOSSELA
The Doors
Nick Drake
Sufjan Stevens
Ólafur Arnalds
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Vertighost
The Constellations
The Clash
Old-time music
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Ruth Flowers MamyRock
Heretics
Verico
Big Soy
Black Sparrow Press
Funderstorm
Orange
Elsie May
The Rolling Stones
Din Caliber
This Damn Country Band
Blue Jungle
Libraries are the second defense for freedom. Books are the first!
I love reading, alot. Mostly fiction, fantasy, biography, poetry, philosophy, classic authors.
Libraries are the second defense for freedom. Books are the first.
Oscar Wilde
W. Somerset Maugham
William Blake
Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Miller
Robert Frost
Arthur Conan Doyle
Lord Byron
Edgar Allen Poe
Jim Morrison
Brian Froud
The Diary of Frida Kahlo
Dan Eldon the Journey Is the Destination
On The Road by Jack Keroac
Faithfull by Marianne Faithfull
The HitchHikers Guide To The Galexy by Douglas Adams
The Beat Generation by Bruce Cook
100 Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Portrait Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wild
Planet News by Allen Ginsberg
Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thomson
The Doors Of Perception by Aldous Huxley
And The Ass Saw The Angel by Nick Cave
Bob Dylan Chronicles By Bob Dylan
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Sophies World by Jostein Gaarder
Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster
The Time Travaller's Wife by Audrey Neffengger
and more more more. I read incessantly.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Oh, I've had so many already, travalling internationally and being with my family is amazing to me.
Teach, Learn, Share
Always.
Countries I’ve Visited
France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom
Countries I’ve Lived In
Australia, United States