quirking out

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

to see you

Interests

• culture
• books
• poetry
• photography
• cooking
• board games
• chess
• traveling
• painting
• music
• jazz
• piano
• anthropology
• history
• languages
• philosophy
• hitchhiking
• art
• filmmaking
• cinema
• plants

Music, Movies, and Books

🎵:
Duke Ellington, Archie Shepp, Bach, Mikael Tariverdiev, Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes, Klaus Nomi, Fabrizio De André, Serge Gainsbourg , Gabor Szabó, Popol Vuh, Chopin, Gal Costa, Fela Kuti, Miles Davis, Arvo Pärt, Dean Blunt, Aznavour, Colette Magny, Cesária Evora, Nina Simone, Stephan Micus, Jean Sibelius, Maurice Ravel, Eleni Karaindrou, R. Wagner, Brian Eno, Klaus Schulz, Moondog, Alice Coltrane, Tim Buckley, Luis Llach, Nick Cave, Kino, Robert Charlebois, Gino Paoli, Sandro, Brigitte Fontaine, Anne Sylvestre, Vangelis, Pink Floyd, Charles Mingus, Victor Jara, L’infonie, Félix Leclerc, Louise Forestier, Lô Borges, Kate Bush, Pharoah Sanders

📚:
Marguerite Yourcenar, Natalie Sarraute, Pierre Clastres, Michel Butor, Paul Celan, Kōbō Abe, Arendt, Breton, Camus, Cioran, Duras, Paul Éluard, Gary, Gide, Marek Hłasko, Kafka, László Krasznahorkai, Dany Laferrière, Dostoievski, Maupassant, Morante, Moravia, Sophie Calle, Neruda, Pasolini, Pirandello, Sartre, Henry Miller, Osamu Dazai, James Baldwin, Édouard Levé, Houellebecq, Robbe-Grillet, Desnos, René Char

🎥:
Angelopoulos, Pasolini, Bergman, Paradjanov, Haneke, Von Trier, Raúl Ruiz, Rohmer, Buñuel, João Cesar Monteiro, Tarkovsky, Peter Watkins, Chris Marker, Glauber Rocha, Franco Piavoli, Wenders, Żuławski, Jancsó, Terrence Malick, Guy Gilles, Kubrick, Makhmalbaf, Jorodowsky, Lanthimos

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

held door for Max von Sydow at conference

Teach, Learn, Share

great cook here

What I Can Share with Hosts

Surprise!

Countries I’ve Visited

Bangladesh, Canada, Chile, England, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Spain, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada