A human.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To clear off my head.

Interests

• ethics
• classical music
• opera
• computer science
• economics
• philosophy
• classics
• global affairs
• philosophy of science

Music, Movies, and Books

# Music
Although I found myself ditching music from time to time I still build up my music library over and over again:
• Mahler’s 5th - H. von Karajan, 1973 (Down Tempo), 9th
• Rachmaninoff - Piano No. 2, Complete Symphonies & Orchestral Works, All-Night Vigil
• Chopin - Piano No. 2(Rubinstein), Nocturnes (F. Chaplin)
• Puccini - Turandot (1973, Sutherland, Pavarotti), Tosca (1964, Callas, Ber- gonzi), La Boheme, Madama Butterfly
• Donizetti - L'Elisir d'Amore (1970, Sutherland, Pavarotti)
• Handel - Messiah, Organ Concertos
• Mozart Piano Concertos 19, 20, 23, 27; Don Giovanni
• Wagner - Parsifal , Tannhauser(1936, Kirsten Flagstad)
• Verdi - La Traviata, Rigoletto, Aida
• Bruckner - Symphonies
• Sibelius - Tone Poems, Finlandia
• Tchaikovsky - Symphonies, 1812 Overture (The perfect soundtrack for
reading War and Peace); Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Orches- tral Suite (Actually, Arabian Dance is the orchestral reproduction of Georgian lullaby - Iavnana); Piano No. 1 (Richter)
• Shostakovich - Piano No. 1, 2; Violin No. 1
• Maurice Ravel - Piano Concerto in G major (Arthuro Michelangeli)
• Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
• Erik Satie - Gnossiennes, Gymnopedies (The perfect tempo: Reinbert De
Leeuw)
• Gabriel Faure - Melodies, Nocturnes
• Richard Strauss – Also Sprach Zarathustra
• Dvorak - Symphonies 8 & 9 (The New World)
• Grieg - Peer Gynt
• Giya Kancheli - Symphony No. 3, Light Sorrow
• Lisa Batiashvili - Brahms, Echoes of Time
• Turlough O'Carolan, Hildegard von Bingen, Vali (Forlatt) etc. and Pink Floyd.

Georgian Folk singer: Hamlet Gonashvili, whose voice always recalls my roots into my heart and reminds me from where I'm coming from and where should I go, in the end.

Led Zeppelin, Whitesnake, Coverdale/Page - In times of infatuation.

# Movies...
• The Holy Mountain - Jodorowsky
• The Elephant Man, The Straight Story - Lynch
• Ivan’s Childhood, The Sacrifice - Tarkovsky
• Salt for Svanetia - Mikheil Kalatozishvili
• The White Ribbon - Haneke
• 81⁄2, La Dolce Vita - Fellini
• Il Gattopardo, Death in Venice - Visconti
• La vita è bella - Roberto Benigni
• Au Revoir Les Enfants - Louis Malle
• Army of Shadows - Jean-Pierre Melville
• The Last Emperor - Bertolucci
• Calvary - John Michael McDonagh
• Modern Times - Chaplin
• L'Eclisse - Antonioni
• Psycho - Hitchcock
• Ran, Ikiru - Kurosawa
• The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona - Bergman
• Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove - Kubrick
• Watership Down - Martin Rosen
• Pi - Darren Aronofsky
• Network - Sidney Lumet
• Carnage - Roman Polanski
• Breaking the Waves - Lars von Trier
• Take Shelter - Jeff Nichols
• Stalingrad - Joseph Vilsmaier
• Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird - Otar Iosseliani
• The Plea (Inspired by Vaja-Pshavela’s poems) - Tengiz Abuladze
• A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, A Swedish Love Story -
Roy Andersson
• Men & Chicken - Anders Thomas Jensen
• Ashes and Snow - Gregory Colbert
• Baraka, Samsara - Ron Fricke
• HyperNormalisation - Adam Curtis
• Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark

# And Books...
• The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
• The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
• Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Notes From The Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• To Save Everything Click Here - Evgeny Morozov
• The Myth Of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
• Aluda Ketelauri, Host and Guest - Vaja-Pshavela
• The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Seneca: Selected Letters
• Moby Dick - Herman Melville
• Diaries - Robert Musil
• King Lear, Otello - Will
• Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
• Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
• Freud: The Unconscious, On Dreams, Masochism, Narcissism and some others.
• Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
• The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• The History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russel
• Essays - George Orwell
• The Seducer's Diary - Soren Kierkegaard
• Small is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered - Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
• Essays on the Genealogy of Presence - Friedrich Kittler
• Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman
• The Flanders Road - Claude Simon (On hold)
• Gandhi: An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments With Truth
• Terrorism: Theirs & Ours - Eqbal Ahmad
• The Nature of Order - Christopher Alexander

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None, yet.

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Countries I’ve Visited

Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Georgia, United States