CURRENT MISSION

To live long and prosper

ABOUT ME

Well, the other fields will probably explain myself a bit more into detail, but shortly:

At the moment I live at the heart of Finland, Tampere! I was brought up in the beautiful Finnish town of Rauma, north from Turku (where my home university lies). On my free time I do pretty much all kind of stuff, but focusing on music, arts, friends, dancing, chilling out, creating and enjoying atmospheres, cycling, walking out in the forests and the city, traveling...
I have a strong tendency to get interested and inspired, and I love this world so much and want to make it even better.

PHILOSOPHY

I think there is really no meaning of life, except the continuity of it.
But I think life is valuable as it is. We are here to experience, learn, wonder and wander, love and enjoy and try to develop into something better and sustainable.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have always enjoyed sleeping at friends' places, spending evenings together, etc., and I really love this kind of grass root level social networks that aim to make life more humane, so CouchSurfing seems to be a reasonable thing to do! Besides surfing and hosting, other CS activities are jolly good fun for me.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've had already a couple fistfuls of CS experience, but it's not the quantity that matters, is it? All the people I've met via CS have been extraordinary. And I have a strong intention to meet more of them!

Interests

People, the beautiful complexity of the human minds and their interactions...
Nature in its all forms
Arts & crafts, especially traditional visual arts and photography
Music: listening, composing, playing instruments.
Aesthetics
Philosophy
Long discussions
Learning
Dancing
Dreaming
Sports, especially cycling!
Good cinema, good food...
Testing my limits, fulfilling my dreams.
Nostalgy, conservation, caring.

I could go on for too long. I love pretty much everything.

• arts
• photography
• dancing
• dining
• walking
• crafts
• movies
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• surfing
• sports
• visual arts

Music, Movies, and Books

A shortened list of artists:

Air, Amiina, Aphex Twin, Aphilas, Angelo Badalamenti, Bal-Sagoth, Bathory, Björk, Boards of Canada, Bob Marley, Boys Noize, Brian Eno, Castlevania Music, Chemical Brothers, CMX, Cocteau Twins, Coil, Coldplay, Daft Punk, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Alex Brandon, DJ Krush, Dave Wise, Electron, Emiliana Torrini, Enigma, Ennio Morricone, Erik Satie, Eskobar, Faithless, Finntroll, Fiona Apple, Franz Ferdinand, Future Prophecies, Garbage, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Grieg, Yasushi Ishii, Ilmarque, Immortal, Jean-Michel Jarre, Jan Johansson, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Hisaishi, John Coltrane, Justice, Kate Bush, Kenji Kawai, Kingston Wall, Kitaro, Koop, Led Zeppelin, Leevi and the Leavings, LucasArts game music, M. A. Numminen, Madonna, Maj Karma, Mari Boine, Masuda Toshio, Mew, Michael Nyman, Miles Davis, Moloko, Múm, Moomin Music (Sumio Shiratori), Nick Cave and the bad seeds, Nifflas, Nine Inch Nails, Paavoharju, Pink Floyd, PMMP, Radiohead, Rammstein, Puccini, Pulp, Queen, R.E.M., Rinneradio, Roy Orbison, Röyksopp, Scandinavian Music Group, Scooter (oldies), Shpongle, Sigur Rós, Skream, Smashing Pumpkins, Sting, Summoning, Suomen Talvisota, System of a down, Tapio Rautavaara, Tehosekoitin, Tervakello, Dead can dance, The Cinematic Orchestra, The Cardigans, The Clash, The Cure, The Prodigy, The Doors, The Smiths, The Sounds, Tuomari Nurmio, Ulver, Andrew Bird, Fever Ray, Vangelis, Yann Tiersen... and lots of miscellaneous music, UG music, classical music, classics, stuff with nostalgy... and the list goes on.

Movies:
Well, if one looks into the IMDB top 250 list, one cannot go wrong. But I also like to watch bad movies (for emptying the brain), but I prefer ones with a deeper touch, and most often more underground or "artistic" movies. My favourite director is Hayao Miyazaki.

Books. Classics are good, and story-telling with mystical properties. Examples are Dostojevsky, Terry Pratchett, Tove Jansson, Neil Gaiman, Stanislaw Lem...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Cycled up 3 kilometers through heavy winds and steep climbs. When finally arrived on top next to a glacier, an old magnificent bearded vulture (wingspan almost 3m!) flew over my head, while around me the view down to the Alps opened up.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Finland, Greece