CURRENT MISSION

I wish I knew, but hopefully something along the lines of happiness

ABOUT ME

Kind of cute, kind of funny, kind of thinking-too-highly-of-himself Mexican guy. Beautifully creative cook. Tender with children. Touching musical taste despite a complete lack of musical talent. Experimental sense of humor. Will never refuse a beer and rarely say no to anything else. Reluctantly pretentious in an unusually self-conscious way. Grandmas love him. Good listener with a deep shoulder carved to take an abundant flow of tears. Catholically irresponsible like a fat old sailor. So easy-going he’ll go anywhere for no reason. An intellectual flexibility that goes from deep philosophical reflexions to disgusting triviality in a blink. Uncensored, uncritical, unassuming...

PHILOSOPHY

I wish I could put it into words and anyway it's hardly consistent enough to claim the pretentious status of being a philosophy. It's more like a rule of thumb.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I don't know. I just got into this wild thing. But I'll talk to whomever happens to be interested and figure something out.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm an enthusiastic yet unexperienced newcomer.

Interests

Dancing alone to some happy tunes. Cooking innovative dishes on the edge of senselessness. Reading things I barely understand to speak about things I hardly remember on occassions rarely appropriate. Pretending to play the blues harmonica. Trying to draw some deep sketches of life bathed in the grey sadness of led pencils. Trying too hard to avoid commonplaces.

• dancing
• cooking
• beer
• reading
• drawing
• blues

Music, Movies, and Books

The usual Tarantino fan with a guilty pleasure for the occasional zombie movie. I'm more into good scripts than into special effects, but of course I love the peculiar affair between both of them. I like Tom Wait's raspy voice and dark sadness. Something by Ray Charles, Janis Joplin and Jimmy Hendrix always does the trick. Louis Armstrong, Sonny Boy Williamson, Mark Knopfler, O. V. Wright and Joaquín Sabina have been a terrible addiction to my soul. Some Tito Puente will always flare up the passions. Paolo Nutini, Selah Sue, Led Zeppelin, some CCR, Audioslave, Queen, Guns & Roses, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, Mumford and Sons, The Black Keys; all purely distilled good stuff. Yet, like any respectable person, I'll dance to any pop or techno song and maybe even magically remember the lyrics when the situation demands it (despite my deep despise for the genres). Everything but gangster rap. Regarding books, El Quijote is always a good read, Flesh and Stone, To Kill a Mockingbiord, The Portrait of Dorian Grey, the poetry of Antonio Machado, The Scarlet Letter. I find fascinating the disturbingly appealing books of Sade. The Egyptian by Mika Waltari. The poetry of Efrén Rebolledo, every single word.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I´ve been fighting a brutal dispute against my callous brain for the past 27 years to bargain a more or less decent personality.

Teach, Learn, Share

I have nothing to teach anyone, but if someone learns something by mistake I'll be happy.