CURRENT MISSION

Surviving

ABOUT ME

I am a very complicated man, not easy to get along with. Horribly ironic, too serious, fond of debates (any topic could become a deep discussion with me), clean, definitely not cool, don't smoke, not spontaneous, boring, etc.

I really don't smoke.

PHILOSOPHY

apprendre et transmettre

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I don't know...

Interests

books, cinema, music, photo (fond of old school photography), knowing people...
make coffee (espresso) and enjoy it (a real ritual..)

• books
• photography
• coffee
• movies
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

-Coltrane, Morrissey, Oum kalthoum, Nusrat fateh Ali Khan, Massive Attack, Pink Floyd (before the 80's), Led Zep, Nick Drake, Jackson C. Franck, Leonard Cohen, Abdulwahab, Amalia Rodrigues, Madredeus, Brassens, Brel, Beirut, Paolo Conte, etc.

-The Cabinet of Doctor caligari, In the mood for love, Breathless (and almost all Godard's movies), Kurosawa, Visconti, Ghost in the shell (I and II), Chihiro (and all Miyazaki), Ozu, Mizoguchi, The grapes of wrath, Kitano, Reygadas, Chaplin, Fassbinder, Fritz Lang, Pialat, Kubrick, Bunuel, Lynch, Cronenberg, Carpenter, Tarkovski, Tsai Ming Liang, Imamura, etc.

-Hugo Pratt, André Gide, Coetzee, Proust, Grass, Hrabal, Cortazar, Garcia Marquez, Monique Wittig, Sartre, Enki Bilal, Jacques Tardi, Munoz et Sampayo, etc. (But definitely not Paulo Coelho...)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have written to Y. W.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Nothing for the moment...

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany