HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING meeting, surfing, hosting when i have a chance, advising COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE In 2007/08, I was quite active meeting and hosting in St. Petersburg. Then two amazing summer trips followed in western ukraine and no less western balkans. They happened just and only because of cs - while meeting and surfing in kiev, irpen, lviv, ivano-frnkivsk, moscow, helsinki, stockholm, belgrade, novi sad, zelenkovac, sarajevo, uzice, kragujevac, the hague these experiences were/are really crucial for me, far more than just nice time spending: people were/are great, more than great: inspiring, astounding, completely different, on the high grade of "alive-ness". i know i learnt a lot and hope i gave something as well

reygadas, almodovar, herzog, jarmusch, godard, kusturica, svankmajer, chitilova, polanski etc. a lot, really a lot! maler...bach... afro pop, afro jazz, ethno music, reggae, ska, world beats; auctyon, leonid fedorov, portishead, joy division, tom waits, leonard cohen, legendary pink dots, mum, mus, sigur ros, pink floyd, cocorosie, knife, blonde redhead, airiel, fun-da-mental, thom york, nico, xiu xiu, matthew herbert, matthew dear, jay jay johansson, regina spector, velvet underground, interpol, matt elliott, burial, pj harvey, feist, dusty springfield, dani sicliano, mediengruppe telecommander, felix cubin, matmos, philipp glass, steve reich etc. non-fiction on cognitive science and linguistics. as to fiction, mainly russian: dostoevsky, erofeev, dobychin, shklovskij, jakobson, vaginov, harms, gladkov, pelevin, ilichevskij, turgenev, kuricyn, gelasimov, prilepin. borges, sontag, rushdi, joice, pavich, salinger, bukowski, miller, kerouac, faucalt, bart, baudrillard