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Nils

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

I have many qualities that do not translate into anything I could put on a CV, like being naturally nice, caring and understanding, open-minded, interested in so many things I sometimes get lost.
Talk to me about art, litterature, music, whatever you love... Oh, and I forgot : I'm not as hooked to myspace as I used to, but bring me some good conversation and I'll be there.
ADDENDUM: It's nice to send me a friend request, but it's best to send a message as well. Just know that I expect some kind of communication with you.
Also, I'm sure your band is awesome, but quite frankly I never listen to myspace music, so please, don't send me a friend request from your band. A better way would be to actually become my friend and THEN to let me know about your band, and then maybe I'll be interested.
ADDENDUM ..2: Apparently there's this weird trend on myspace that is developping, which results in my receiving a long message from a pretty chick from the opposite side of the planet who apparently is looking for her soul mate, but at no point is my name mentionned, and I have the strange feeling that the message was not written for me at all, but rather intended to trap a few naïve guys. What do you think I do with that kind of messages?
Nils.
About child soldiers, the international security issues of the epidemic of AIDS, and HIV infection used as a war weapon in Africa: Aids and International Security , by P.W.Singer.
"At the start of the twenty-first century we live in a divided world. The size of the divide poses a fundamental challenge to the global human community. Part of that challenge is ethical and moral. As Nelson Mandela put it in 2005: "Massive poverty and obscene inequality are such terrible scourges of our times -times in which the world boasts breathtaking advances in science, technology, industry and wealth accumulation- that they have to rank alongside slavery and apartheid as social evils." The twin scourges of poverty and inequality can be defeated-but progress has been faltering and uneven." Human Development Report 2005 (UNDP).
"The warming over the past 100 years is very unlikely to be due to internal variability alone, as estimated by current models. Reconstructions of climate data for the past 1,000 years also indicate that this warming was unusual and is unlikely to be entirely natural in origin. "
Technical summary of The Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis, a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ).
Variations of the Earth's surface temperature compared to year 1990, from the year 1000 to today, with forecasts up to 2100 , from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ).
A view from the Eiffel Tower:..

My Interests

Preserving my own life and health
Love and friends,
Cinema (I know, it sounds like the worse line on a resume, but really, I love it as an art)
Dancing, salsa in particular,
Italian Renaissance sculpture and painting,
Making new friends,
Beautiful smiles, beautiful hair, beautiful whatever,
American politics, telepathy with cats, large good dogs.
Weirdly (can I say weirdly?), I have recently developped a strong interest in making pastries.
Anything really interesting, incredible but true, or just sensational (not in a TV journalism meaning)
Shopping (not the type of guy who will sit around when my girlfriend choses a new outfit, I want my say in it).

I'd like to meet:

Someone with whom I can have a good conversation.

I'd also like to chat with people from the Paris area, from both genders, so that I can actually meet them, for a change. Go out for a drink, dance, homemade parties, stuff like this.

Music:

David Bowie, Gerard Manset, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, The Rolling Stones, Lou Reed, Ravel, Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Bill Straihorn, Yann Tiersen, U2, Leonard Cohen, Beethoven, Satie, Rachmaninov, Guns and Roses, Simon & Garfunkel, Jacques Brel, Brassens, Celia Cruz, Ray Barretto, Tito Puente, Brahms...
Classical, Jazz, Pop, Ragtime, Rock, Hip-Hop, Salsa...

Movies:

Stanley Kubrick :
Dr Strangelove, 2001, Space Odissey, Shining
Ernst Lubitsch:
The Shop Around the Corner, Ninotchka, To Be or Not To Be
Akira Kurosawa:
Throne of Blood, Red Beard, The Bad Sleep Well, Dersou Ouzala
Woody Allen:
Manhattan, Love and Death, Annie Hall
Clint Eastwood:
Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, A Perfect World...
And also,
Yi Yi, Scarface (De Palma's), All About Eve, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowsky, In the Mood for Love, Mars Attacks!, Mulholland Drive, The Mummy, Dune, Amelie, Kill Bill 1&2, The Night of the Living Dead, The Night of the Living Bread, La Haine, Delicatessen, Cyrano de Bergerac, Dogville, The Birds, Brazil, Zoolander, Troy, Etre et avoir, Un air de famille, Koyaniskatsi, The Others, La cité de la peur, Underground, Chunking Express, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,

Television:

The Beeb or Euronews for the news.
CNN to get my dose of daily misinformation.
French news because that's where you get news about France.
Sex and the City.
Animal documentaries.

Books:

La promesse de l'aube (Romain Gary), Le bourgeois gentilhomme (Moliere), Shakespeare (everything), Kurt Vonnegut (everything), The New York Trilogy (Paul Auster), Dune (Franck Herbert), L'automne a Pekin (Boris Vian), Les chroniques de la haine ordinaire (Pierre Desproges), Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury), Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand), Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf), Dersou Ouzala (Vladimir Arseniev), Le dialogue des carmélites (Bernanos), Indiana (George Sand), Don Quichotte (Cervantes)...

Heroes:

I thought about this for a long time. I don't think I have a hero. But I do admire certain people, such as Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Yehudi Menuhin, Mozart, Faure, Pachelbel, Jonny Depp and Vanessa Paradis (what a couple!), Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood, Peter Sellers for his incredible characters in Dr Strangelove, The Party and Being There, David Bowie, Evariste Galois, Coluche, Pierre Desproges, Simone Veil (a hero in France, as she stood firm in front of our Parliament for women's right to abortion, when all those men were cursing her and shouting obscenities at her).

My Blog

The inevitable death of Steve Irwin

I was saddened this morning by the news of Steve Irwin's death, although I had always wondered how on earth he managed to stay alive while playing with deadly snakes and crocodiles for a living.Appare...
Posted by Nils on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:10:00 PST

Bonne blague

C'est l'histoire d'un mec, c'est le Pape. Il est dans sa voiture, son chauffeur conduit, et il se sent super bien, il a la pêche.Il dit à son chauffeur : "Laisse-moi prendre le volant, j'ai envie de c...
Posted by Nils on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 04:48:00 PST

Aliens on myspace

So I have this old myspace profile that I renamed 'Aliens!' some time ago, just because I didn't know how to cancel it: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewpro file&f...
Posted by Nils on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:04:00 PST

Tagged

OK, so the rules of this thing are once someone tags you, you have to write a blog including 6 weird facts/habits/things about you.  Then pick 6 people to tag and they have to do the same thing.&...
Posted by Nils on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:59:00 PST

Barbaric practices (ie death penalty)

"In veterinary euthanasia and in assisted suicides in Oregon, a single lethal dose of a long-acting barbiturate is typically used. But corrections officials and their medical experts say using that me...
Posted by Nils on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:17:00 PST

Jesus - The Musical (Ravier Prato)

Unfortunately this world-famous short movie is not on http://www.javierprato.com/any more (or did I miss it), but you can find it anywhere else on the web. Just Google it, it's amazing.I know this is ...
Posted by Nils on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 02:42:00 PST

Why you cannot own a Canadian

http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2002/WhyCantIOwnACanadian_10- 02.html
Posted by Nils on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:16:00 PST

How you know your knife is real sharp (without harming anyone)

Cut an onion. If it doesn't make you cry, your knife is really sharp. I tried it. It works.
Posted by Nils on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:58:00 PST

My English sucks! And that sucks.

Since I left the States, my English has become worse and worse. Especially the first minutes I speak, it's "charabia" (French for, eh, you know, "charabia"). It gets better with confidence, but there ...
Posted by Nils on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:18:00 PST

Salsa addicts

For those of you who love salsa, you probably know this band already, but if this is not the case, I highly recommend this album. Especially the songs 'Temba, Tumba, Timba', 'Somos Cubanos' and 'Havan...
Posted by Nils on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:44:00 PST