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  • Fluent in English, French; learning German
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2006
  • Photographer
  • Marketing, business School blabla
  • From Paris, France
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About Me

//I haven't updated my profile in quite awhile I must admit but well, what was true for me a couple of years back are still the case in general as of today :) The pictures though are more like a time capsule of my younger self ahah //

CURRENT MISSION

Make this world a smaller place and play with my band everywhere on it !

ABOUT ME

I am 35 years old (thank gosh I still look in my early 20's Yay). I am an easy going person, maybe a little too talkactive sometimes but thats because I was so shy as a teen, so now I enjoy other's company ! I really like all kind of travels as soon as it really changes me from my all day life, meeting new people is probably the best part of it.
I've just changed my career from marketing to photography, I'm a full time photographer now and really love it !
www.nomadistmoon.com is my professional website (couple and wedding photography) and https://gallery.nomadistmoon.com/travel/ is a collection of my best travel pictures :)

Also I can't live without music (listening, playing and writing), I'm writing and playing guitar in the metal/rock bands This Deafening Whisper (disbanded since) and Evereast

https://soundcloud.com/jspb1/sets/home-recordings-of-early - I also write/record and interpret songs on my own that are more oriented Power-pop, punk-rock or folk

PHILOSOPHY

First of all I live without any kind of religion, I respect people that do but I have difficulties understanding them... I really dont know how my life is gonna be in five or six years so I try to do the most things that I can while I can.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'll try my best to leave every people that host me a good image and to host as many people as I can possibly. If I host people, I try to show them the real Paris and get away from the mainstream touristic traps.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted more than 60 people, and surfed on more than 60 and I didn't have a single bad experience ! Some weird ones, sure, but in the good sense of the word ;) Always something great to remember and new friends I'll keep for a long time..

Interests

- Listen, write and play music (I am guitarist and writer in a rock band)
- I'm more and more serious about Picture Taking
- Traveling
- Climbing, Squashing and swimming
- All Computer stuffs and cinema
- Hiking and biking

Music, Movies, and Books

- I love (in disorder) Thrice, Architects, August Burns Red, Heaven Shall Burn, Evergreen Terrace, Muse, Millencolin, Enter Shikari, Norma Jean, All shall perish, As I lay Dying, Zebrahead, Thursday, Offspring, Saosin, Darkest hour, Rise against, Cradle of Filth, He is Legend, Weezer, Jimmy eat world .... Basically Punk, Metal, Metalcore, Emo, Post-Hardcore, melodic death metal, Power-pop (if you have no idea what the hell this is, I can teach you !) and occasionally some classical (mostly scores by Danny Elfmann, Hans Zimmer, John Williams ..) Electronic or Folk. Oh, and Michael Jackson of course sniff...
- Favorite shows : Breaking bad, GoT, Chernobyl, Dexter, How not to live your life, Bigbang Theory, My name is Earl, Walking Dead, Casa de Papel, Black Mirror, Rick and Morty, South Park...
- My favorites movies are Truman show, Indiana jones, back to the future, nightmare before christmas (and basically all tim burton's movies), Dumb and dumber, Pan's Labyrinth, American Beauty, Edward Scissorhands, Amelie ...
- I dont read a lot but I enjoy the occasional agatha christie, Jack Ketchum and M H Clark.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Working 4 months in Yellowstone National Park, cut from everything but right in the middle of gorgeous landscapes and animals and with people from all around the world !

- Volunteering 1 month in a very poor school in Nepal. Instead of teaching children, I mostly played with them and tought them how to dance the macarena and how to beatbox ahaha !

- With my cousin, going through EVERY metro station in Paris (more than 300, it took us 17 hrs) in one day while being dressed in white with the name of every station on tshirt and short. Then shoot this video clip in the metro too: http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/two+boys+ratb/video/x7u3fn_clip-ratb-des-twoboys_music

-Collecting Pringles Boxes and making towers out of it (more than 120 boxes so far ;-P..)

- Touring 2 weeks in Eastern Europe with my band. 10 days/10 shows/5500 km/ 4hrs sleep-average/ 3 showers !

Teach, Learn, Share

I can definately try to teach french or the most famous sentences (Ive heard that french was a sexy languages so ...). I love to learn few sentences of every languages too. Id love to share music with some people, learn to play guitar in different ways (country, latino etc...)
- Oh yeah also, I'd be more than glad to 'teach' you or at least, try to explain you why I'm so deeply into metal music because I know it can be such a mystery for many but I would love to show you a bit what's behind the surface and what makes it so meaningful to me, leaving all the clichés on the side ;-)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

France

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