CURRENT MISSION

Know me and love me better, learn from others, enjoy life

ABOUT ME

I'm Carlos. I did already many things in life.Nowadays I am a teacher. Some years ago I was a Member of the Parliament/Representative in Balearic Islands, but I decided to go to Peru to begin a new adventure. Then I discovered I like to teach and I really need to do music again. I love to create music. You can listen to us in Spotify.
I studied Humanities (Philosophy, History, Art and literature) and I specialized in Philosophy in the Pompeu Fabra University. I've studied a Master on contemporary Philosophy in the University of Granada, and a Master to teach philosophy in highschool.

I love do sport every day ...crossfit, boxing, Body pump.

I sing and play guitar in my own music project called La Nada.

I love to cook and took some cooking courses. Love peruvian, thai, japanese, italian and spanish contemporary and old cuisine. I write sometimes on my facebook account, but also in local and national newspapers.

I've done a thesis about a concept that I called "Dispersion Camp" in wich I treat dispersion as a will of separating every possibility of building an "us" and a "community" through empty entertainment and the abstraction of power in supranational authorities and the independece of Economy. I am really interested in politics and I was part of the political party called Podemos. In Cusco (Peru) I joined "Nuevo Perú".

I like to learn a little big bit of everything. I love music, philosophy, astronomy, I like cinema, comedy, history. I consider myself a good person with good sense of humour. I am pretty positive, even if I think the world is going in the wrong direction.

PHILOSOPHY

To Learn and to live. Every day better, more calmed and nicer to others.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I offer a mattress...maybe a room. I try to meet the people that comes.
I don't offer my house as a hotel, I consider couchsurfing a whole experience about sharing and meeting interesting and nice people.

I met people who are friends forever through Couchsurfing.

I've been hosted but not that many times.

Interests

Me, You, She, They: We.

• arts
• culture
• humanities
• literature
• singing
• cooking
• running
• partying
• politics
• movies
• reading
• music
• guitar
• camping
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

-Books: The old man and the sea (Hemingway), Oriental tales (Marguerite Yourcenar), Ancient escepticism, epicureism and cynicism, Bukowski, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (David Foster Wallace), The elementary particles (Michel Houellebeqc), Sapiens and Homo Deus (Yuval Noah Harari), Adiós a la Filosofía (emile Cioran), El Aroma del Tiempo (Byung Chul Han), 1984 (George Orwell), Animal Farm (Ibid), Brave new World(Huxley), Philip K Dick (The Man in the High Castle), Ficciones (Borges), Heidegger, Nietzsche (Genealogy of Morals), Haruki Murakami (Tokio Blues) Kafka (Metamorfosis), Alice in wonderland (Carroll), Marx (Das Kapital), Presocratic philosophy, Peter Sloterdijk (In the interior's world of capital), Slavoj Zizek (The Sublime Object of Ideology), Bakunin (GOd and the state) Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (Imperio), Ulrich Beck (Was ist Globalisierung), Agustín Fernandez Mallo (Nocilla experience), Wilde's The portrait of Dorian Gray, Giorgio Agamben, Georges Bataille, Miguel Morey, Jeremy Rifkin (The End of Work), Tony Judt (Postwar), Antonio Gramsci.

Books about globalization, history of art, history, Sometimes I like poetry. and of course... biotechnology, transhumanism, etc.

-Movies: Neon Demon, (Nicolas Winding Refn), "Love" and "Enter the void" (Gaspar Noe), Monty python's movies and series, more TV shows than movies, Marx Brothers, Chaplin,, Woody Allien(Zelig, Manhattan), Vertigo and Psycho from Hitchcock, Down by law, Superbad, Alexander Kluge (Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike), Wim Wenders and his fabolous movies "Der amerikanische Freund" and "Paris, Texas", Stanley Kubrick (Clockwork Orange, Bergman (Persona), il Padrino (Francis Ford Coppola), Ladri di biciclette (Vittorio de Sica), Michael Haneke (Benny's Video), Almodovar (Hable con ella), Amenabar (Mar adentro), George Cukor (Gaslight), V for Vendetta (James McTeigue), The Matrix (Larry and Andy Wachowski), Mulholland Drive (David Lynch), NETWORK.

TV: Succession, The night of, Life Sucks, Ozark, Fariña, Arrested Development, Master of None, Dead Seat and Black mirror (Charlie Brooker) Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David), Curb your enthusiasm (Larry David), Friends (Marta Kauffmann and David Crane), Monty Python's Flying Circus (Genius), Generation Kill(David Simon and Evan Wright), House of Cards, Vikings, True Detective, GoT,
I love documentaries, this one have changed my life: All over watched by machines of loving grace (Adam Curtis, BBC). The Old and new "Cosmos". The untold History of the USA by Oliver Stone.
This one is pretty amazing too: Voces contra la globalización... otro mundo es posible.

-Art: Salvador Dalí, Munch, Paul Klee.
I like museums that plan exhibitions that are art itself or want to represent an idea: I was in the San Francisco MoMA and nothing made me think, CCCB (Barcelona) Sometimes they have good exhibitions, Berlin Contemporary art museum (I saw a really nice Paul Klee exhibition), etc.

-Music: Nowadays I am in love with KAE TEMPEST.

I love electronic music: Joris Delacroix, Solomun, Patrice Bäumel, Luke Abbot, Konx-Om-Pax, Rival Consoles Bloody Beetroots, Prodigy Pretty lights, Siriusmo, Nathan Fake, Boris Brechja, Paul Ritch, Gui Boratto, oliver Huntemann, Dominik Eulberg, Gabriel Ananda, Kölsch, Jon Hopkins, Bicep, David August, Daftkpunk, Stephan Bodzin, Apparat, moderat, Todd Terje, Skrillex, Pendulum, Deadmau5, Aphex Twin, Susumu Yokota, Kraftwerk, Lali Puna, Plastikman, The Knife, Chemichal Brothers, Fever Ray, Ratatat, Trentemoller, Sascha Funke, Vitalic, Fever Ray, Zomby, Ellen Allien, Mistress Barbara, Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Paul Kalkbrenner Fritz Kalkbrenner, Boys Noize, Booka Shade, Vitalic, royksopp, Kiasmos,Justice, Simian Mobile Disco, Fatboy Slim,

Alternative: Four tet, Air, Last Shadow Puppets, Muse, Radiohead, The XX, MIA.

Rock-Pop: Pink Floyd, Stevie Ray Vaughan, David Bowie, MGMT, Dream Theater, Placebo, Depeche Mode, B.B King, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Rory Gallagher, Deep Purple, Mando Diao, The soundtrack of Our Lifes, Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder, , Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, Heroes del silencio, Bunbury, Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, Rainbow, Johnny Cash, Zappa, The Cranberries, rammstein, The Desdren Dolls, Metallica, David Bowie, Enola gay and take on me in all the parties, Keren Ann, Pixies, Ramones, Cindy Lauper, Yann Tiersen, Devotchka, Brendan Perry, Mr Bungle, Charlotte Gainsbourg, paralisis permanente, , , The Beach Boys, Nirvana, Heart, Van Morrison, Michael Jackson, Mamas and the papas, Elvis, Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Rage Against, Teddybears Sthlm, Gaberdine, Madrugada, Band of Horses, Angelo Badalamenti, Nihls Fram, Chvrches,FKA Twigs, , pj harvey.

(...) I was playing the guitar since I was 13 and I changed my taste in music many times, I began with metal, but I went throught blues, alternative rock, electronic, folk. I listen a lot to electronic music: Dubstep, minimal techno, Trance and Disco. Also I like to listen to Folk, Indie, jazz, flamenco,...everything.

-Food: I love to cook. A lot peruvian food, but I always am investigating new things to learn, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Thailandese, Vietnamese, Italian, .
(...)I really admire the revolution of Spanish cuisine, I love the work of Ferràn Adrià, I like High level cuisine. I like Spicy food, and not spicy. My best dishes are arroz chaufa, spanish omelette, thai curry, Pad Thai, different chinese or asian fried rolls, peruvian dishes, pasta, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Participated in the filming of an amazing tv series and a comedy movie in Peru. The second time that I worked in cinema and they made me "casting director".

Going to the jungle in Peru. Tambopata. And being able to sleep the second night with some pisco sour.

Burning Man 2012. "What the fuck just happened?"

Attending to a Justice and Vitalic Performance the same night at Sonar 2017 (Barcelona)

Felt that I almost died doing rafting (I couldn't get my head out of the water) in Baños, Ecuador.

Went to a colombian pacific music festival in Cali called Petronio Alvarez (Colombia)

Ate the best ceviche in the world in Paracas (a desert near the sea in Perú)

Went to see Cañón del Sumidero in Chiapas (Mexico)

Had a bath in a hot jacuzzi listening to Pink Floyd and having nice drinks in front of the frozen Mississipi River with -11ºC in Minneapolis (USA) with my friend Christie.

Had an amazing new year's party 2017 in Mexico DF

A forest in Ellicottville full of deer, skunks and squirrels (Buffalo, NY)

Running in Brooklyn (New York City) listening Arcade Fire While I watched all the helicopters arriving to Downtown Manhattan.

The Wall Roger Waters in Barcelona (live)

Berlin and its amazing dj's and culture!

Living in a hotel-community near Grenoble for 2 months (France)

Formentera, a paradise on Earth.

Teach, Learn, Share

A bit of philosophy.

I know a bit about world and spanish politics.

Speaking Spanish, Catalan, English, german(I am forgetting it) and french.

I know about political communication. I can give you a couple of tips.

I know how to play guitar and sing, and DJ a bit so if you want a lesson, I give it to you.

I want to learn more german and french. Also I would like to listen if you have something interesting to explain or in general any adventure! I love PASSIONATE PEOPLE.

What I Can Share with Hosts

A person to party and have fun with.

Music.

Good and interesting conversation.

Good food.

A pretentious human being.

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Andorra, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Western Sahara

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Spain

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