[Added December 2024: I decided to reactivate my Couchsuring account after moving to a new, much larger place. I will gradually update the profile but some of the information below and the photos may be outdated!]

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've used CouchSurfing both to travel in many European and American cities and to host guests in my native Buenos Aires,

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

The best possible. I met all sorts of wonderful people, many of whom have become lifelong friends.

Interests

Philosophy, photography, effective altruism, snowboarding, psychology, cosmology, playing music, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, windsurfing, life extension, classical and modern languages, tango dancing, card magic, vegetarian cuisine, Victorian love stories, obscure autobiographies, hard science fiction, utopian and dystopian literature, red wine, rollercoasters, labyrinths, dreaming, trains and train stations, graveyards, mastering the fine art of writing CouchSurfing references, exploring possible answers to the question 'Why does anything at all exist?', and much, much more.

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies. In the Mood For Love, The Human Condition, Satantango, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Waking Life, The House of Mirth, Stranger Than Paradise, Let's Get Lost, Rear Window, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Harakiri, Breaking the Waves, Shadowlands, The Sacrifice, The Indian Runner, Far from Heaven, Midnight Run, Samurai Rebellion, High Noon, Into the Wild, Father and Son, The Decalogue, The Notebook, The Grand Illusion, Back to the Future, The Wages of Fear, Big, Lost Horizon, City Lights, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, My Brilliant Career, Ordet, Planet Earth

Music. Johann Sebastian Bach, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Nat King Cole, Chet Baker, John Coltrane, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall, Patricia Barber, Jamie Cullum, Pat Metheny, Pink Floyd, Cheesy 80's Pop, Swedish metal

Books. Ovid, Metamorphoses; Calderón de la Barca, La vida es sueño; Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray; George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London; Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones; Greg Egan, Luminous; Arthur Schopenhauer, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung; Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics; Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons; David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind; Paul Feyerabend, Killing Time; Alexander Shulgin, PiHKAL; Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone; Robert Wright, The Moral Animal; Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works; Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype; Peter Singer, How Are We to Live; David Pearce, The Hedonistic Imperative

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Quite a few, actually. Just ask.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russian Federation, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, United States

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