CURRENT MISSION

Researching the world.

ABOUT ME

I'm an explorer moving between different worlds. I'm an avid record collector, pop culture historian, sociologist, ethnographer, DJ, product researcher. I love listening to lost stories and tracing forgotten histories. I'm into brainy stuff, but I also like to get out and stroll the city streets and the mountain trails.

Some of the most profound reveleations and most important friendships in my life came out of chance meetings and random conversations with strangers.

I make mixtapes that make people cry or smile:
http://www.mixcloud.com/djshuriken/

I snap instagrams to capture the fleeting days:
http://instagram.com/djshuriken

I have a weekly radio show on a Budapest community station since 1995. Eclectic music to the fullest:
http://www.cratesoul.com/

I sometimes produce music. I wish I had more time for this:
https://soundcloud.com/djshuriken

I write academic papers on music and society:
http://bme.academia.edu/GaborValyi/Papers

PHILOSOPHY

Peace with every step.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have just joined. My current flat is a studio (1 room + kitchen) is kinda tight and inconvenient for having guests sleeping around (someone would have to sleep on a cmping mat on the kitchen floor). I'll probably start having guests once I moved to a bigger apartment. But I'm happy to meet people and show them around in Budapest if I have the time.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None as yet. Just joined, so I'll see.

Interests

Record collecting. Music. Hiking. Food and cooking. Swimming in lakes, rivers and the sea. Grazing in the grass. Stargazing. Riding bicycles.

• culture
• dining
• cooking
• socializing
• music
• hiking
• swimming
• history
• sociology
• lakes
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Trust, Dead Man, Mystery Train, Le Haine, Fight Club, No Country for Old Men, Un Prophete, Karlighed pa film, Oslo, 31 August, Moonrise Kingdom,

The Sopranos, The Wire, Riget

Alice Coltrane, Linda Perhacs, Beck, Nucleus, Nirvana, Kenny Rankin, Pharoah Sanders, A Tribe Called Quest, Camper Van Beethoven, Balanescu Quartet, James Brown, Madlib, Pete Rock, Gang Starr, The Digable Planets, MF Doom, Jane's Addiction, Marley Marl, Ramsew Lewis, Donald Byrd, Cal Tjader, Bonnie Dobson, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, David Axelrod, Jefferson Airplane, Tibor Szemzo, Echo, Atlantis, Gabor Szabo, Gary McFarland, Lalo Schiffrin, Herbie Hancock, Dennis Coffey, ASS, Serge Gainsbourg, Old Dirty Bastard.

Martin Amis: Money, Chuck Palahniuk: Survivor, Bulgakov:The Master and Margarita, Orwell: 1984, Nabakov: Lolita, Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle, Esterhazy: Egy No?, Parti-Nagy Lajos: Hullámzó Balaton, Sorokin: Ice, Suskind: Parfume.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Seen
The morning sun, anywhere.

Done
Swam in the Danube.
I've actually written my PhD thesis about record collecting.

Teach, Learn, Share

Preparing Hungarian dishes. A lot about music history, pop culture and society. Hungarian tounge-twisters. Creating presentations with Prezi. Ethnographic methods.