CURRENT MISSION

To teach Andy Spanish.

PHILOSOPHY

Surf couches and often.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surf, offer couch, guide, drink with.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Meeting all kinds of great people!!!

Interests

Film, travel, music, literature, people, food, beer...

• literature
• photography
• dining
• beer
• drinking
• traveling
• music
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

The Life Aquatic, Eraserhead, 2001, Kieslowski´s Color Trilogy, The Passenger, Taxi Driver, Ed Wood, Habla con Ella, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, The Royal Tenenbaums, Annie Hall, Bananas, Sweet and Lowdown, Zelig, Godfather I, II, and III, Apocalypse Now, Volver, Blade Runner, An American Werewolf in London, The Shining, The Battle of Algiers, Cinema Paradiso, Kolya, The Best of Youth, Goodfellas, A Pure Formality, Nosferatu, Shadow of the Vampire, Easy Rider, Amelie, Babe, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, State of Grace, Big, Abbott and Castello Meet Frankenstein, The Hustler, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, Lost Highway, Leaving Las Vegas, Dead Man Walking, M, Jesus' Son, Casino, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, CQ, Lost in Translation, In The Soup, About a Boy, The Big Lebowski, The Lost Boys...

Miles, Monk, Mingus, Trane, The Doors, Zeppelin, The Clash, Joy Division, The White Stripes, Nina Simone, Eric Dolphy, Yusef Lateef, Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Vivaldi, Sabbath, Tony Williams, Roland Kirk, Radiohead, The Shins, Manu Chao, Clifford Brown, Wayne Shorter, Spoon, Belle and Sebastian, MIA, The Police, Robert Johnson, Fats Waller, Bud Powell, The Smiths, The Cure, Sublime, Architecture in Helsinki, The Beatles, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Ben Folds, Broken Social Scene, Bright Eyes, Elliott Smith, Beck, Bauhaus, Depeche Mode, Echo and The Bunnymen, The Stones, Portishead, Pixies, Nirvana, The National, The Knife, Kings of Convenience, Wolfmother, Bob Marley, The Raconteurs, Ennio Morricone, Vangelis, Tom Petty, T. Rex, The Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Larry Young, Caribou, Red Hot Chili Peppers, RJD2, DJ Shadow, Talking Heads, Chet Baker, Getz/Gilberto, Daft Punk, Oingo Boingo, New Order, Weezer, REM, Sunny Day Real Estate, MGMT, Badly Drawn Boy, Mark Mothersbaugh, Coldplay, Tom Waits, Yeah Yeah Yeahs...

Thoreau, Kundera, Neruda(s), Brautigan, Orwell, Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, Camus, Ovid, Kafka, Poe, Meyrink, M.R. James, Bierce, Nietzsche...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Andy - worked as director of photography on a feature length independent comedy; lived out of a car for six weeks while traveling around the states.

Marga - seen the pyramids, climbed a mountain, been to Iceland.

Teach, Learn, Share

Andy: I'm not sure what I could successfully teach here, but I am more than happy to share some of the production work I've done. Below are several videos I have posted on YouTube.

The Voyeur:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8RMwPcpMSI

Murder Surge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGTimDVeZc

Transposition Composition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6PtsxJLNXQ

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Spain, United States