CURRENT MISSION

It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found.

ABOUT ME

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration; I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming. - Haim Ginott

PHILOSOPHY

"The simplification of anything is always sensational." -G.K.Chesterton

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

This reminds me of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.

WHEN COUCHSURFING, I AM ALREADY HOME :)

Interests

Film, TV, Music, FOOD, People!

• dining
• tv
• music
• logic

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES:
Manhattan/Annie Hall, How to kill your neighbors dog,
It's a wonderful life, The fall, Stranger than fiction, Crash, Broken flowers, Goodnight&Goodluck, Benjamin Button, Slumdog millionaire, merchant of venice, Science of sleep, Groundhog day, the Apartment, Cinema Paradiso...

my movies:
www.pretendersthemovie.com (IN-PRODUCTION)

BOOKS:
Brothers Karamazov + The Idiot
Brave New World
On the Road (The couchsurfers bible :)
A La Recherche du Temps Perdu
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Torah/Bible/Quran/Bhagavad Gita
The Little Prince
...

POETRY by:
T.S.Eliot

...

MUSIC:
Charles Mingus, Leonard Cohen, Jeff + Tim Buckley, "Devendra Banhart" (disclaimer: only with certain latvian hippies), Tom Waits, Bowie, Doors, Joplin, Miles, Erroll Garner, Nina Simone, Velvet underground, Dylan, Cash, Radiohead, ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

http://www.pretendersthemovie.com

I'm finally directing this in August, 2012.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Russian Federation, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, China, Latvia, Switzerland, United Kingdom

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