I'm 27-year old advertising specialist from St. Petersburg, Russia, married, no kids yet. Travelling with my wife.

Interests

There're several interests of mine: learning new languages (currently I'm learning German and planning to start learning Italian this winter), listening to music (and talking about it as well), reading, playing guitar and piano (a little bit) and spending time with my wife. I like to communicate with other people as well expecially on sociological, psychological and current events topics.
Apart from these interests I do love my job - advertising, and think that I can share quite a valuable knowledge).

• culture
• books
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

I adore classical and modern academic music. Among my favorite composers are: Stockhausen, Wagner, Gubaidulina, Messian, Berg and many others. Especially I am an opera fan - German mostly. Love speaking about music and sharing the interpretations.
I'm not into movies as much as with into music, but there're several directors that worth paying attention. First of all, this is David Lynch and his brilliant "Inland Empire" (and most of Lynch's movies, such as Mulholland Drive are exceptional). I used to love Trier's works but now I find them not as good as they used to be. And then there're Bergman, early works of Polansky, Pasolini, Tarkovsky which I consider as brilliant piece of cinema.
Apart from movies I like TV Shows - Monty Python and Mighty Boosh are two, which I love most. South Park is good too.
I'm a avid reader. I try to spend as much as possible reading new stuff. Best books I've ever read are the ones of Dostoevsky (Brothers Karamazov, Demons, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment). I like English literature as well - Huxley, Joyce, Orwell. Vonnegut. Apart from reading fiction, I read a lot of non-fiction, especially philosophical, sociological and psychological one (Baudrillard, Foucault, Freud, etc.)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I guess, that most valuable I could share with the hosts is the opinion I hold towards different topics (culture, state of (post)modernity, gender, etc) as well as my talks about the music and books. I do have several interesting life stories (like the one when I was almost been eaten by the wolf), but I find that the opinions are the most valuable assets in this world.

Countries I’ve Visited

Estonia, Finland, Israel, Sweden, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation