PHILOSOPHY

Fortune favors the brave.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hosted some great people while living in Nice, France.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Interests

travelling and photography and music and books and art and writing and cinema and theatre and nature and sightseeing and hiking and cooking and eating and dreaming and having dreams...

• arts
• writing
• books
• photography
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• knitting
• music
• hiking
• sightseeing

Music, Movies, and Books

music?

Miles Davis, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Weather Report, Joni Mitchell, Tom Jobim, The Clash, U2, John McLaughlin, John Coltrane, Jane Birkin, Keith Jarrett, P.I. Chajkovskij, M. Ravel, Serge Gainsbourg, Buena Vista Social Club, Pat Metheny, The Smiths, Joe Jackson, Siouxie and the Banshees, Tom Petty, The Dire Straits, Vangelis, Madeleine Peyroux, Noir Desir, The Cure, Nina Simone, Caetano Veloso, KINO, Joy Division, Vladimir Cosma, John Martyn, David Sylvian, Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles, Paris Combo, Ella Fitzgerald, King Crimson, Dave Brubeck, Carlos Santana, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Edit Piaf, The Allman Brothers Band, The Waterboys, Genesis, Talking Heads, Madredeus, Air, Cousteau, MGMT, Erikah Badu, Bob Dylan, Niel Young, The Police, Paolo Conte, Massive Attack, Chet Baker, Patricia Barber and... always dicovering something new

movies?

Bladerunner, 8 and 1/2, Blow-Up, Opening Night, La fille sur le pont, Easy Rider, The Piano, Lost In Transaltion, Forrest Gump, Frida, Deadman, Lisbon Story, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, A Woman Under The Influence, Le Peuple Migrateur, Leaving Las vegas, Les Nuits Fauves, Magnolia, Annie Hall, Once Upon A Time In America, Sideways, Midnight Cowboy, Amélie, She's So Lovely, 400 coups, La Moustache, Coffee And Cigarettes, Baisers Volés, Un Homme Une Femme, The Shawshank Redemption, The Million Dollar Hotel, The Life Aquaric With Steve Zissou, Total Eclipse, L'Auberge Espagnol, Volver, Profession Reporter, Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, Marie Antoinette, A Room With A View, Non Ti Muovere, A Scent of a Woman, Taxi Driver, A Requiem for a Dream, Der Himmel Uber Berlin, Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni spspetto, Ed Wood, Opening Night, La Dolce Vita, The Truman Show, Talented Mr Ripley, Shadows, BeetleJuice, Faces, Picnic At Hanging Rock, Barry Lyndon, Stealing Beauty, Paris Je T'Aime, Thelma And Louise, The Shining, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Paris Texas, Arizona Dream, English Patient, 9 1/2 Weeks, The Dreamers and more...

books?

Pushkin, Chekhov, Dostoevskij, Nabokov, Bulgakov, Dovlatov, Murdoch, Sagan, Dino Buzzati, Italo Calvino, Kundera, Pavić, Allende, Murakami, Bukowski, Kerouac...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

(JUST ONE?!) New Mexico sunsets....San Francisco in the rain...Venice rooftops...St. Petersburg's "White Nights"...Autumn aspens in the Santa Fe National Forest...new born baby goats...my wedding in Las Vegas!

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd love to learn to tie marine knots and men's ties.
I could teach you some Russian or to knit long scarfs for cold winters.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Monaco, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, France, Italy, Russian Federation, United States