CURRENT MISSION

Trying to eat a slice of bread with peanut butter underwater.

ABOUT ME

Hi there! I'm just quite new to CouchSurfing. Heard a lot about it. Great initiative! Hope to meet new, interesting people through this system with whom I can have a laugh with!

I'll keep on updating my profile in the near future. This is it just for now.
If you are in trouble and looking for a couch, just contact me!

Cheers, Richard.

PHILOSOPHY

Trying to make the best out of life...and more...and don't philosophize too much ;)

Interests

I'm in to a vast variety of things... As a filmmaker I enjoy to make films, music videos, shorts of course, but I do enjoy to watch as many films as possible. Due lack of time I still gotta watch that whole heap of tapes laying in my back garden. Visit http://www.smokingfish.nl for my latest project...

Besides filmmaking I'm a photographer(see http://www.flickriver.com/photos/richardspierings/popular-interesting/ for photos) and graphical designer as well. I still got to put my pics online someday, so just be patient...

I simply love music...listening music, visit concerts every now and then...and making music myself. (www.myspace.com/burntheiris) I'm interested in lot of styles of music, from decent pop music to metal to dance to ska and back again. And yes, always interested for new stuff!

And last but not least, I love to travel...but I need mo'money!! Dying for a good trip...

• design
• film making
• concerts
• dancing
• gardening
• movies
• traveling
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

Too much to mention...
Well okay, just what pops into my mind right now:

Music:
70's & 80's classics, CCR, David Bowie, Queen, Talking Heads, Madness, Kraftwerk, Tears for Fears, Drumnbassdubstepelectro, Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Depeche Mode, Coldplay, The Prodigy, NiN, Pantera, Down, Queens of the Stone Age, Poison the Well, Isis, Cult of Luna, Fear Factory, Baroness, Another Messiah, Burn the Iris, Machine Head, Killswitch Engage, The Ocean, Mastodon, Burst, Tool, DJ Shadow, Unkle, Faith no More, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom and everything else Mike Patton is involved in...etc etc.

Films:
Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive..and all of David Lynch's work, Requiem for a Dream, C'est arrivé pres de chez vous, City of the Lost Children, Ex-Drummer, Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind, Amelie, Fight Club, Scarface, Pulp Fiction, Full Metal Jacket, Magnolia, Taxi Driver, Cidade de Deus, Crash, Brokeback Mountain, Memento, Snatch, There will be blood, Pan's Labyrinth, Amores Perros, Children of Men, The Wrestler, Kan door huid heen, Ober, Se7en, Aliens, Gegen die Wand, The Big Lebowski ...and lots more.

Also love work of Chris Cunningham, Spike Jonze & Michel Gondry...as well as TV-series like Lost & The Simpsons...etc etc.

Books: started to read again: Herman Brusselmans (simply great!) and just crappy magazines.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands

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