CURRENT MISSION

Gather my peaches while I can...

ABOUT ME

A student of music. And a pathological foot-tapper.

PHILOSOPHY

"...for it is my belief (that) no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge." Joseph Conrad

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By letting everyone be.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Some far-out people have surfed my couch. I like far-out people.

Interests

Peeling layers off of onions.

• music

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES
'Stalker' by Andrei Tarkovsky
'Last Year at Marienbad' by Alain Resnais
'Branded to Kill' by Seijun Suzuki
'The Conversation' by Francis Ford Coppola
'Spring , Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring' by Kim Ki-duk
'Ostrov' by Pavel Lungin
'The Army of Shadows' by Jean Pierre Melville
'The Conformist' by Bernardo Bertulocci
'The Holy Mountain' by Alejandro Jodorowsky
'Blue Velvet' by David Lynch
'Le Belle Captive' by Alain Robbe Grillet
'The Earrings of Madame De' by Max Ophuls
'Raise the Red Lantern' by Yimou Zhang
'La belle noiseuse' by Jacques Rivette
'Celine and Julie go Boating' by Jacques Rivette

BOOKS
'In Search of Lost Time' by Marcel Proust
'Point Counterpoint' by Aldous Huxley
'Notes from the Underground' by Fyodor Dostoevsky
'Thus Spake Zarathustra' by Nietzche
'Glass Bead Game' by Herman Hesse
'Dubliners' by James Joyce
'The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea' by Yukio Mishima
'The Stranger' by Albert Camus
'The Razor's Edge' by Somerset Maugham
'Midaq Alley' by Naguib Mahfouz
'Naked Lunch' by William Burroughs
'Lord Jim' by Joseph Conrad
'All the Names' by Jose Saramago
Anything by H.P. Lovecraft, Jorge Louis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov and Philip K. Dick

MUSIC
Mostly: Indian Classical music

But also: psychedelic trance, ambient, minimal techno, DnB, LA Sound, jazz, nu jazz/acid jazz, the blues & old-school hiphop (East Coast).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Having abstained from answering this.

Teach, Learn, Share

Have esoteric music

What I Can Share with Hosts

life experience :D

Countries I’ve Visited

Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

India

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