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Overview

  • 3 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French
  • 45, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Chef, Wine waiter, Waiter
  • Secondary school for vocational training ( restaurant )
  • From Montpellier ( Languedoc-Rousillon ) France
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Sharing love all around the world

ABOUT ME

PHILOSOPHY

All is connected.
We are the one.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

To add my personality and my vibes into this amazing community.To take risks to discovered new points of view, to confront myself to differences!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couchsurf in different and amazing places in Australia. I can't wait to couchsurf in other places around the world.

Interests

Human
Nature travel
Hiking
Dancing
Clubbing-Rave Parties-Festivals-Concerts
Yoga
Massages
Photography
Cooking
Wine tasting
Philosophy

  • photography
  • concerts
  • festivals
  • dancing
  • cooking
  • wine
  • wine tasting
  • yoga
  • partying
  • clubbing
  • traveling
  • hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

I love independant, underground and experimental cinema.
My favorite directors are :
- David Lynch ( Inland Empire, Mulholland Drive, Wild at heart, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Lost Highway etc. ).
- Godfrey Reggio ( Koyaanisqatsi etc. ).
- Stanley Kubrick ( 2001 : A Space Odissey, Shining etc. ).
- Jonathan Caouette ( Tarnation )
- John Cameron Mitchell ( Shortbus, Hedwig and the Angry Inch )
- Gregg Araki ( Nowhere, Mysterious Skin, The Doom Generation, Totally fucked up )
- Claude Chabrol
- François Truffaut ( Les 400 coups...).
- Arnaud Desplechin ( Un conte de noel, Rois et reines...).
- Michelangelo Antonioni ( Zabriskie Point, The passenger...).
- Matthew Barney ( Hoist, The Cremaster Cycle...)
- Larry Clark ( Bully, Ken Park...).
- Gus Van Sant ( My Own Private Idaho, Gerry, Paranoid Park...).
...

Music :
I love
-Folk ( José Gonzales, Patrick Watson...)
-Indie rock ( LCD soundsystem, Chromatics, Music go music, Anthony and the jonhsons, Hercule and the love affair...).
-Electronic music ( The Presets, Empire of the sun, Vitalic, Gui Borrato, Mike Ladd, Aphex Twin, Khan...)
-Hip Hop and Trip Hop ( Massive Attack, Mos def, Talib Kweli, Dr Octagon, Dj Shadow, Dj Krush...).
-Soul music ( Nina Simone, Grover Washington Junior...).
- Rock ( Blondie ,David Bowie, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, The Doors...).
- Punk, Postpunk, New Wave ( The Stranglers, Talking Heads, Alaska, Beruriers Noirs, Pigalle, MacManara, New Order, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Le Tigre, Elli et Jacno, Taxi Girl, Stinky Toys, Etienne Daho, Rita Mitsouko, Divine...).

I love Philosophy litterature
- Nietzsche
- Michel Foucault
- Michel Onfray
- Albert Camus

I love naturalist and romantic litterature
- Herman Hesse
- Thoreau
- Jack London
- Reinaldo Arenas

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In the summer 2002, I integrate an independant european association, I took part in a free artistic and multicultural festival in Mostar ( Bosnia ). This city was split up in two parts after the Yugoslav war: The catholic croatian one and the Muslim Bosnian part. This festival was create in order to do bring the two communities.
Actually this association didn't have so much money, we repaired an old urban bus to go in Bosnia, we built concert halls, bars and exhibition galeries in the ruins of the front line.
We slept on the floor in an old gymnasium, and we did'nt have the modern comfort, no mirrors too.
This festival ran 2 weeks, after we decided with friends from the association to travel in te rest of Bosnia and in Croatia. I felt strong vibes in Sarajevo and Bosnia!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach cooking
Hiking in the nature
Massages
Dancing

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France, Malaysia, Spain, Switzerland

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