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  • Fluent in English, French, Spanish; learning Dutch, Walloon
  • 34, Male
  • Member since 2015
  • Musician, poet, traveller, entrepeneur
  • University of Liege, Roman Philology
  • From Liège, Walloon Region, Belgium
  • Profile 75% complete

About Me

Searching for good, beauty and truth. There may be ambushs on the road, but music an poetry are my shield as well as my weapons. Travelling is a vocation. Now a few words in french:

J'ai vu le jour la nuit de Samain

En l'année mil-neuf-cent nonante-et-un,

Et la naissance me fit citoyen

Du pays noir que la Sambre dessine.

À qui m'enjoint avec civilité

De dire en mots brefs mon art et ma vie,

Lui chanterai ce discours que n'habille

Ni le mensonge ni la vanité :

Mon art ne vaut pas mieux que le silence

Et a pour seul objet de lui sembler;

Ma pauvre vie est de luxe comblée

Car la pain m'est la suprême opulence.

Dire plus serait orgueil ou folie -

Mais fol et orgueilleux je dis encor

Que les beaux vers et les justes accords

Ont saisi mon néant pour l'anoblir!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To welcome and to be welcome, to help and be helped. To meet good people!

Interests

  • poetry
  • vegetarian
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • traveling
  • music
  • adventure
  • love
  • peace
  • software development
  • good vibrations

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: so many... Claude Debussy, Jimi Hendrix, Moondog, Bach, troubadour's music, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Pharoah Sanders, John Coltrane, the Beatles, Nobuo Uematsu, gregorian chants, Maurice Ravel, Beethoven, Bombino, Ali Farka Touré, Procol Harum, Ravi Shankar, Rodriguez, Robbie Basho, etc...

Movies: all Kurosawa's movies, Kubrick's movies, Monty Python's movies, old movies...

Books: so many here also... lot of poetry (found my masters in Alphonse de Lamartine and Victor Hugo), also novels (Tolstoi in particular), ect ect. Special mention to Eloge de la fuite from Henri Laborit. Also Nietzche's writing, especially Zarathustra, On the Genealogy of Moral, and the Happy Science.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I came to life on this planet.

Teach, Learn, Share

Well I could teach you basis of musical pratice in general, and guitar in particular. If you are already guitarist, I can show you a interesting tuning that I created, and some nice ways to use it. It would be also a pleasure for me to speak with you in french, spanish or english. Also, I can learn you ways to meditate and interesting techniques of yoga.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Music, time, sympathy, nices stories from travels, food, works, etc...

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, France, Spain

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