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Couch Available: Coffee or a drink
Preferred Gender: AnyI live in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy with my parents, so at the moment I cannot host, but in the future I'll be very glad to offer my couch and share my place with you. Feel free to contact me for a beer or anything else. :) Friends (33)
 Adelaide Fontana
19, Female
Catania, Sicilia
Italy
Friends since May 2007
"my master of life :)"
Friendship Type: 6 - Close Friend
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 Adriana Riela
25, Female
Catania, Sicilia
Italy
Friends since October 2007
"thanks to music"
Friendship Type: 6 - Close Friend
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 Iman El Shami
20, Female
Vienna, Vienna
Austria
Friends since December 2006
"looong story :D"
Friendship Type: 5 - Good Friend
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 Rob Ruttan
28, Male
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
Friends since October 2008
"Pirru and I met at a party. He and his friends Imi and Lena were incredible. All warm and inviting. Funny and very entertaining. He is and interesting character with much to offer."
Friendship Type: 4 - Friend
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 Jacqueline Lewin
26, Female
Parma, Emilia-Romagna
Italy
Friends since July 2008
"i was unable to host him but we met for a meal and a chat"
Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend
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 Stéphanie Le Fresne
26, Female
Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana
Spain
Friends since July 2008
"Met in Valencia"
Friendship Type: 4 - Friend
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 Costanza Ghirardi
21, Female
Parma, Emilia-Romagna
Italy
Friends since October 2008
"a bit...and i know he likes to have his own vodka always with him! :)"
Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend
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 Anna Aglietti
31, Female
Milano, Lombardia
Italy
Friends since September 2008
"surfed my couch for a week"
Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend
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 Ky Piscopo
23, Female
Naples, Campania
Italy
Friends since August 2008
"Conosciuta tramite Anobii "
Friendship Type: 4 - Friend
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 Simona Benassi
31, Female
Parma, Emilia-Romagna
Italy
Friends since October 2008
"from couchsurfing meeting in parma"
Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend
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Personal Description
Briefly: I'm a very unregular student, a freelance journalist, a film-maker and an audio/video editor for a production team based in Catania. I compose, play and sing my own music. I usually live at night.
ABOUT ME : Pirru.net | Myspace | Anobii
WORDS (in Italian) : Blog | Fugitive Motel
MY MUSIC : Pirru | Vers mon oubli | Postcard Paper
MY NEXT CS EVENTS
28 Nov : In a Country House in Maranello.
NEXT MOVES
Nov 28 : Maranello, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
TRAVELS IN 2008
Jan 18 : Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
Jan 19-21 : London, England, United Kingdom.
Apr 10-12 : London, England, United Kingdom.
Apr 13-17 : Glasgow/Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Apr 15 : Highlands/Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Jun 24-26 : Macerata, Marche, Italy.
Jun 27 : Fano, Marche, Italy.
Jun 28-Jul 3 : Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Jul 4-6 : Loiano Balkan Festival, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Jul 7-16 : Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain.
Jul 17 : Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Jul 18-20 : Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Aug 10 : Castelbuono, Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
Aug 26 : Maranello, Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Aug 27-Sep 6 : 65. Mostra del Cinema. Venice, Veneto, Italy.
Sep 8 : London, England, United Kingdom.
Sep 9-14 : Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.
Sep 15-21 : Milano Film Festival. Milan, Lombardia, Italy.
Sep 23-26 : La Notte dei Ricercatori. "GraalFiction" e "Triste Tristano" screenings. Catania, Sicily, Italy.
Sep 30 : Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy.
Oct 4-5 : Palio di Parma. Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Oct 18 : Florikultura. Loiano, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Oct 21 : Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Oct 24-27 : Wien, Austria.
CouchSurfing Experience
PEOPLE WHO HOSTED ME:
 Francesca Montanari (Fano, Marche, Italy)
Stefano Canziani (Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
 Barbara Rotovnik (Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
Giulio Rosalia (Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
Valentina Miozzo (Maranello, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
 DJ FLUFFY (London, England, United Kingdom)
Anna Aglietti (Milano, Lombardia, Italy)
Costanza Ghirardi (Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
Marco Bertini (Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
Iman El Shami (Wien, Austia)
PEOPLE I HOSTED:
Iman El Shami at Loiano Balkan Festival
MEETINGS I JOINED:
Jul 4-6 : Loiano Balkan Festival
Oct 4-5 : Palio di Parma
Oct 18 : Florikultura
Oct 19 : MoMe! (organizer)
 Oct 24 : CS Vienna Party Night
Interests
Even more than I can truly imagine.
Philosophy
Still missing a lot of pieces for the whole European puzzle :)
JOURNEYS I'D LIKE TO DO:
- Go down along Istria from Trieste, crossing Slovenia and finally reaching Croatia. Possibly cycling the Slovenian seaside.
- Cross the Italian/French border from Liguria to Nice, passing by Monaco.
- Enjoy the Oresund strait and take the bridge that connects Copenhagen, Denmark, and Malmö, Sweden.
- Sail the Baltic Sea from Helsinki to Tallinn and then go east for St. Petersburg.
Music, Movies, Books
PAINTERS: Ray Caesar, Daniel Martin Diaz, Mark Ryden, H. R. Giger, Gustave Doré, Trevor Brown, John Tenniel, Elizabeth McGrath, Miss Van, Tim Biedron, Francisco Goya, Lori Earley, Tim Biskup, William Blake, Edward Gorey, Egon Schiele, Caspar David Friedrich, David Stoupakis, Zdzislaw Beksinski, Salvador Dalì, Johann Heinrich Fussli, Todd Schorr, Stanley Donwood, Cédric Tanguy, Michael Hussar...
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Nobuyoshi Araki, Eugene Atget, David Bailey, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Herr Buchta, Farrokh Chothia, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Ernst Haas, Sharad Haksar, Lewis Hine, Shannon Hourigan, André Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sebastiao Salgado, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Victor Trush, Garry Winogrand, Kohei Yoshiyuki...
MUSIC: 2 Foot Yard, A Perfect Circle, A Silver Mt. Zion, A Whisper In The Noise, Air, Antony and The Johnsons, Apparat, Nicola Arigliano, Angelo Badalamenti, Franco Battiato, Bauhaus, Beck, Jacques Brel, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Buena Vista Social Club, Vinicio Capossela, Nick Cave, Cinema Strange, Leonard Cohen, John Coltrane, The Cure, Miles Davis, Paco De Lucia, Depeche Mode, Devics, Dirty Three, Dresden Dolls, Elbow, Danny Elfman, Elio e Le Storie Tese, Brian Eno, Faun Fables, Final Fantasy, Diamanda Galas, Carlos Gardel, Jonny Greenwood, Lisa Germano, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Neil Halstead, Al Jarreau, Joy Division, Carla Kihlstedt, Wojciech Kilar, Kaki King, Marilyn Manson, Massive Attack, Brad Mehldau, Mogwai, Mojave3, Ennio Morricone, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Narcotango, Nina Nastasia, Nine Inch Nails, Mike Patton, Peeping Tom, The Pixies, Jocelyn Pook, Portishead, Radiohead, Damien Rice, Terry Riley, Shellac, Sigur Ros, Emilie Simon, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Slint, Luigi Tenco, This Is Your Captain Speaking, This Will Destroy You, Yann Tiersen, Tomahawk, Tool, Emiliana Torrini, Jill Tracy, Uzeda, Richard Wagner, Tom Waits, Shannon Wright, Thom Yorke...
DIRECTORS: Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Alejandro Amenabar, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Michelangelo Antonioni, Darren Aronofsky, Ingmar Bergman, Danny Boyle, Robert Bresson, Mel Brooks, Tim Burton, Park Chan-wook, David Cronenberg, Alfonso Cuaron, Manoel De Oliveira, Brian De Palma, Clint Eastwood, Federico Fellini, Francis Ford Coppola, Milos Forman, Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Gondry, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Wong Kar-wai, Kim Ki-duk, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Takeshi Kitano, Stanley Kubrick, Im Kwon-taek, Patrice Leconte, Sergio Leone, Richard Linklater, David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Tsai Ming-Liang, Hayao Miyazaki, Christopher Nolan, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alain Resnais, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Johnnie To, Giuseppe Tornatore, Lars Von Trier, François Truffaut, Gus Van Sant, Luchino Visconti, Billy Wilder ...
ACTORS: Sandrine Bonnaire, Adrien Brody, Michael Caine, Fabrice Luchini, Kyle MacLachlan, John Malkovich, Edward Norton, Guy Pearce, Stephen Tobolowsky, Grace Zabriskie ...
BOOKS: Isabel Allende, Antonin Artaud, Charles Baudelaire, Stefano Benni, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Bertolt Brecht, Charles Bukowski, Italo Calvino, Albert Camus, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Philip Dick, Fedor Dostoevskij, Ludwig Feuerbach, David Grossman, Herman Hesse, James Joyce, Frank Kafka, Alda Merini, Haruki Murakami, Friedrich Nietzsche, Chuck Palahniuk, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Fernando Pessoa, Marcel Proust, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Leonardo Sciascia, Luis Sepulveda, William Shakespeare, August Strindberg, Elio Vittorini...
Teach, Learn, Share
I can teach you some history of photography, cinema, art and literature, singing techniques, some audio and video shooting tips and a few recipes.
I absolutely want to learn everything you would teach me.
One Amazing Thing I've Seen or Done
The breathtaking view from the Arthur's Seat
(Edinburgh, Scotland)
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The enchanted atmosphere in Montmartre
(Paris, France)
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Taking relaxing walks through the Jardín del Turia
(Valencia, Spain)
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Taking a nap on a bench near the Serpentine at Hyde Park
(London, England)
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The astonishing seaside of Acitrezza
(Sicily, Italy)
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The uncontamination of the Highlands along the road to Inverness, Scotland
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At night, staring at the stars from Westminster Bridge
(London, England)
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Cycling among art and history in Ravenna, Italy
Having a talk about life with seamen at the Old Port
(Marseille, France)
Eating several kinds of cheese lying on the grass of Parco Ducale
(Parma, Italy)
Staying idle on the Halfpenny Bridge over the river Liffey
(Dublin, Ireland)
Having breakfast at dawn in Trafalgar Square
(London, England)
Locations TraveledTRAVELED: Austria, France, Greece, Ireland (Republic of), Italy, Malta, Spain, Tunisia, United Kingdom, Vatican
LIVED: Italy
WANTS TO GO: Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, Monaco, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, United States
References
 From Elena Pedroni Modena, Italy
Oct 20  Positive He wrote me about the CS Meeting in Modena and he helped me to joint the group via mobile!!I like his smile and I'm happy I had the time to chat and have fun with him and the other people at the meeting!!!Good and friendly organizer!  From Marco Bertini Bologna, Italy
Oct 11  Positive I met Roberto in Parma meeting, and after I met him again, and hosted him and Simona, in Florikultura meeting.
He is a nice guy, full of energy and with a great culture. We share the same interest on movies; he is an active member of the community and is giving a lot of help to improve the Modena group. See you soon, Roberto! From Simona Benassi Parma, Italy
Oct 8 unforgettable salt experience !!!
 From Valentina Miozzo Modena, Italy
Aug 29 Positive I hosted Roberto for just a night but we had a really good time together, we have been to Ferrara to see buskers and we enjoyed a lot! He's a nice guy with lot of dreams for his life that I hope he will realize soon.  From Gerda Grasmane Valmiera, Latvia
Aug 26 Positive well you can straight away tell that he is studio kid! we had some great time in Fano. he played guitar upside down and did it pretty well! good times, good people! he is open-minded and it was so easy to talk with him! well, i definitely had a good time! From Jacqueline Lewin Parma, Italy
Jul 15 Positive I met Pirru when he was in Parma visiting and looking for a place to live. We spent an evening chatting about life, love experience, film and food! I am very happy he will coming to live in Parma so we can get to know each other more! See you soon!!
From Stéphanie Le Fresne Valencia, Spain
Jul 14 Positive Roberto has a brain in ebullition, he is a passionate person with many dreams, unlimited interests, and impressive knowledge of a lot of things. He is so kind, talkative, easy going, and gives you such positive energy! It was a pleasure to enjoy his company, definitely meet him! And don’t believe him if he says he doesn’t speak French and Spanish! : ) I don’t have any doubt on the fact that he will have the specific life he wishes. Really hope to meet you soon, all the best Roberto!
 From Demetrio Marino Milano, Italy
Jul 7 Positive Also known as Vibra (it's not my fault), Rob is a great guy to stay with. He comes from my hometown, Catania, and I had the pleasure to share chats and drink during the Loiano Balkan Festival. It was great spent my weekend with him, he is brilliant, easygoing and funny! Definitely, you must meet this guy!!  From Roberto Moranti Sant'Elpidio a Mare, Italy
Jul 7 Positive Ciao Omonimo. It was so nice meet you in Loiano, I hope there will be other chances to spend more good time together. See you
 From Barbara Rotovnik Parma, Italy
Jul 4 Positive Roberto was a perfect guest! Very polite, inobtrusive, independent, cooks dinner and cleans dishes, and is overall an enjoyable company. My cats would agree :). Roberto is also a very interesting person, very intelligent, mature, with a huge knowledge of many things, and has daring dreams and determination! We enjoyed parma summer musical scene together and it was great! Roberto, all the best for your future and hope to see you in Parma again very soon! Perhaps over a nice dinner on the terrace with Paolo...  From Francesca Montanari Granada, Spain
Jul 3 Positive Roberto is a very creative guy, able to check out a screenplay from an ice-cream shop. It's a pleasure to hear him telling his stories and to listen to him singing Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah with an upside-down guitar. He's a very eclectic and determined person, and I believe he's an artist :) I hope to meet him again, better if looking like Ray Charles playing the piano in a black-and-white world  From Stefano Canziani Parma, Italy
Jul 1 Positive Roberto is a really kind host,it was really nice to have him arround. He is smart talkative and with a lot of project. Hope to meet him again when he is set here in parma  From Teresa Cooper Richland, United States
May 31 Positive Roberto contacted me when he saw I had logged in in Catania. We met for an evening where he showed me around the city. He knows so much about the history of the area, it was amazing to hear all the stories. I highly recommend you contact him if you are in Catania:) Interesting to hear his views on conditions in Catania as well. Good luck on your move to Parma, and with the journalism career. From Adelaide Fontana Catania, Italy
May 23  Positive Pirru :) I feel very lucky to have met this amazing guy. He's probably the most open-minded person that I know and also kind, friendly and fascinating, always ready for a talk or for a good tea together.
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