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About Me

Basically, I am french, hence an obvious superiority mixed with some arrogance and a strong taste for red wine and champagne.
Besides, I have failed too often to do what I'd want for a living, and that's why I am an IT engineer. I love talking to my computer, and sleeping with my mouse by my side.

My main focus in life is rock, mostly obscure bands which skyrocketed after being played on MTV, and such one-hit wonders.

What I'd really want to do for a living is selling CDs and t-shirts, and that's what I am doing during my vacations. So if any of you needs a merch boy, leave me a message.

Oh, I forgot something. It seems I have some sort of gift to find things, such as videotapes, that some people have been looking for for years, and I guarantee a 48-hour delivery upon order.

My Interests

Rock, nada surf, computers (yeah sadly...), books

I'd like to meet:

hmmm...some people as cool as those I've already met.

Music:

nada surf (yeah, I know, again), John Vanderslice, Howie Beck, ben kweller, adam green, rufus wainwright, tom mcrae, idlewild, the long winters, death cab for cutie, maplewood, weezer (before maladroit), ed harcourt, girls in hawaii, absinthe blind, pete yorn, built to spill, old 97's, the Ramones, Rhesus...

Movies:

my own private idaho, stand by me, fight club, brazil, sommersturm, get real, funny games, benny's video, elephant, die fetten jahre sind vorbei, good bye Lenin, the rules of attraction, requiem for a dream, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the science of sleep, clerks, mallrats, dogma (anything by kevin smith), good will hunting,...

Television:

24, Alias, Six Feet Under, the Shield

Books:

Oscar Wilde, Bret Easton Ellis (the Rules of Attraction, Glamorama, American Psycho), the Dune series (Frank Herbert), the Hyperion/Endymion series (Dan Simmons), the Culture series (Iain M. Banks), His Dark Materials trilogy (Philip Pulman)..

Heroes:

Ira Elliot, Matthew Caws, Daniel Lorca, Frank Herbert, Gus Van Sant, Louie Lino, Spiderman, Dave Douglas

My Blog

the wet is a gift

I've had a tough day. A bad water leak in the appartment above mine, resulting in the flooding of my own place, where it was litterally raining. Hence the unavailability of nadasurfan.com, as I had to...
Posted by aurelien on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:06:00 PST

Gurten Festival pictures

Here's the link to my FlickR photoset, with pictures taken last friday in Bern, Switzerland, at the Gurten Festival, during nada surf's set:http://www.flickr.com/photos/39537724@N00/sets/721576009 3589...
Posted by aurelien on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:39:00 PST

All is a Game

Indded, I do wake up and lie there, and think it through. And the weight of my own life seems to be too much for me.Today, it took me a lot to eventually be able to simply go out of my appartment to r...
Posted by aurelien on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:44:00 PST

wanna see movies of my dreams

So, my period of insomnia seems to be going downhill. And so is my 2-week long period of migraine.I've been able to update my website, which was badly needed, and I've got lots of live material ready ...
Posted by aurelien on Wed, 30 May 2007 03:07:00 PST

stupidity has no political color

I have just accomplished my civil duty, and on my way out of the voting place, I heard a stupid discussion, between two older men: "Beware of not becoming a fag with your genes."That was a reference t...
Posted by aurelien on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 03:54:00 PST

Art Nouveau, Alternative and Parisiennes Jaunes

What should a bank IT ground executive (at least I manage myself) do in between 2 stressful weeks? Go to Vienna, of course.But first, spend his friday evening in Paris' indoor aquatic parc, in the mid...
Posted by aurelien on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:31:00 PST

en route to Vienna

Oh my! It seems like my addiction to the internet has reached another peak, as I've just logged on from Paris CDG airport's boarding zone, after subscribing for an Orange Wifi access. Well, my MacBook...
Posted by aurelien on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:07:00 PST

Crescendo

My friends, we've entered a zone of turbulence.That much anticiped month of october has eventually begun, and as feared, it "slightly" changes my habits: I'll have to work for the next three weekends,...
Posted by aurelien on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 06:15:00 PST

on the edge

Hey guysI've been on call for one week, which basically means I haven't been able to fall asleep before 4:30AM, and that I can't do anything once I leave my office, as I have to go home as quickly as ...
Posted by aurelien on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:11:00 PST

loneliness (what would I do without you?)

It's been one year I moved to my own place, after leaving my parents' suburbian house.The only conclusion I can draw after this new period in my life is that I feel quite lonely, and my life itself is...
Posted by aurelien on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 03:17:00 PST