Why I’m on Couchsurfing

As Victor Hugo said, "Life is a box of chocolates and the best chocolates are on couchsurfing" 🤌

Interests

• arts
• architecture
• photography
• yoga
• music
• cycling
• sports
• swimming
• urban exploration
• cinema
• techno music
• litterature
• food lover
• cold wave
• post punk

Music, Movies, and Books

🎸 Lebanon Hanover, Hante, Boy Harsher, Nachtmahr, Hatari, Siouxsie and the Banshees, TR/ST, She Past Away, Michelle Gurevitch, Kino, Molchat Doma, Pink Floyd, Black Marble, Cage The Elephant, Moby, Lana Del Rey, Britney, French Indie Pop groups…

🎬 Crash (David Cronenberg), Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders), Lost Highway (David Lynch), The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki), My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant), Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch), Dogville (Lars Von Trier), Holy Motors (Leos Carax), Meetings with Anna (Chantal Akerman), Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky), Funny Games (Michael Haneke)...

📖 Voices from Chernobyl (Svetlana Alexievich), The Lesson (Eugène Ionesco), In the Solitude of Cotton Fields (Bernard-Marie Koltès), Moderato Cantabile (Marguerite Duras), Extraordinary Stories (Edgar Allan Poe), Dojoji and Other Stories (Yukio Mishima), Funeral Rites (Jean Genet), The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka), The Horla (Guy de Maupassant), Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky), Getting Lost (Annie Ernaux)...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I'm 20 years old. It's summertime. My best friend and I are leaving Paris for Stuttgart. 6 people pick us up. In each car, a different world opens up to us.
A couple of sixty-somethings with perfect looks and tortuous past, a young soldier ready to turn the world upside down for her daughter, a lawless guy in his twenties who drags us into his virtual love life and an old couple of sadistic Catholics gathered around the same enemy: their son. Then two hours of waiting and burning under the rays of the Moselle sky. Lying on a shady stretch of asphalt, on the lookout for the slightest car. A Kazakh truck driver finally picks us up at the front of his truck. We cross the border with him, and he leaves us in the German fields. It's almost dark. We get picked up one last time by a guy who drops us off in the center of Stuttgart. My friend and I decide to go for a drink in a bar.
There's one last seat at the table of a group of three guys celebrating a birthday. They let us sit next to them, and we end up joining the party. One thing leads to another, and we end up getting drunk with these three jazz fans, who are approached by a woman who says: "I've got two tickets for a concert I can't get to tonight, so I'll give them to you if you want to go." As it's not the three guys' type of music, they insist that we take the tickets. We end up at a Schmutzki hard-rock event. Without really knowing why, a venue manager offers us alcohol, but "only if we take champagne".
That day, I experienced a firework of contradictory emotions and colors. If I had to make a film about that day, it would be a kind of insane Franco-German-Kazakh coproduction with some odd Jim Jarmusch vibes.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd love to share my knowledge of film! I learn photography and have recently started learning German again. ✍️

What I Can Share with Hosts

💌 After several months of traveling, during which I found it hard to exercise regularly, moving from city to city every day and sleeping sometimes on night trains, sometimes in hostels, I've got back to the sports I've been doing for several years: swimming, running and weight training. I'd love to be able to share them with someone and motivate each other. I've also taken up yoga, and if anyone's interested in doing it with me, I'd love to! I'm also very curious about the queer scene (artistic network, projects, parties, etc.).
📆 As for my availability to host people, I'm currently on the move and can't do this right now. I'm moving back to Paris in January, and I'd be delighted to host you for a few days!

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Russian Federation