CURRENT MISSION

to find myself

ABOUT ME

prefer non-smoking areas to smoking ones, prefer creating to critisizing, prefer understanding. Striving to keep my roots, looking for directions of the further development.

PHILOSOPHY

"You have to be f..king awesome" -- a line from one add on craigslist i once saw when i was looking far an appartment in Chicago. i didn't pay pay much attention, but it keeps coming up in my head. Thought it might suffice as my philosophy moto. I want a T-Shirt that would say "MAKE ART". I would like it to be designed so that those words would look very imposing and persuasive. I also have a tatoo that reads REMEMBER. Guess that would be it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

made a donation, that's it so far

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

have several times (see references), which was great. For some reason I don't surf that much meself.

Interests

snowboarding, all other kinds of boarding, research, good conversation. films, music, looking for myself, photography, studing, getting things done, go to a library, take a huge pile of books, disappear

• arts
• books
• photography
• running
• movies
• reading
• music
• snowboarding
• gymnastics

Music, Movies, and Books

Lost in Translation, PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE, Antichrist, Memento, 21 gramm, Shrink, Big Fish, The Serious Man, Into the Wild, A Single Man, An Education, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Sunshine, The Machinist, Control, A scanner darkly, Y tu mamá también, Old Boy, Sideways etc.

Diana Krall, Emeralds, Bibio, The Strokes, Arcade Fire, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltzin, LCD Sounsystems, Chromeo, Phoenix, Foo Fighters, Eric Clapton, Apparat, Beirut, Feist, The Walkmen, Florence and the Machine etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

jumped off a moving train.
just kidding.

i once flew on a WW2 combat plane, with aerobatics involved, that was the most intense 15 minutes of my life

Teach, Learn, Share

You know how they do that fast reading trick?
they DO NOT pronounce words to themselves. They just do it with their eyes, quick, running eyes. You have to understand that, and then practice will make perfect.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United States

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