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Nicolas

I am here for Friends

About Me

I love everything beautiful. Music, art, science, and expression are the core of my existence. I find sex overrated, though I am extremely good at it. I have eleven tattoos, play synth keyboard and acoustic guitar in three different bands (metal mindfuck and dance indie folk), speak French, Dutch, Russian, and Euskara Batua (Basque), eat only foods that I grow myself in my own compost, read thoughtful contemporary fiction and poetry, and am learning how to watercolor and sculpt clay and wood. In my spare time I repair bicycles, run an activist newsletter called The American Sophist, and operate two art and media galleries in miami and cleveland. In addition, I was fathered by space alien renegade punk rock stars. AIM = VitaminNicolas

My Interests

chainsmoking, rain, back porches, wheat, wind chimes, the sea

I'd like to meet:

elliott smith oh shit hes dead nevermind

Music:

chet baker, the cure, type o negative, miles davis, lamb, depeche mode, sneaker pimps, led zep, beth orton, the sundays, al jolson, aphex twin, radiohead, dusty springfield, fats waller, natalie merchant, tool, eels, sisters of mercy, rolling stones, david bowie, nine inch nails, white stripes, wolfsheim, deftones, annie lennox, book of love, duran duran, blur, alpine stars, jamiroquai, new order, postal service, dj shadow, fischerspooner, belle and sebastian, helmet, queens of the stone age, crystal method, squarepusher, ella fitzgerald, jobim, smashing pumpkins, air, weezer, violent femmes, skinny puppy, toadies, orbital, REM, placebo, pavement, pet shop boys, squirrel nut zippers, morcheeba, mono, billie holiday, lords of acid, modest mouse, magnetic fields, massive attack, guster, hooverphonic, etc ad nauseum

Movies:

secret of NIMH, big lebowski, event horizon, willow, snatch, amelie, conan the barbarian, fried green tomatoes, nightmare before christmas, house of yes, dr. strangelove, north by northwest

Television:

iron chef, pimp my ride, ultimate fighting

Books:

howard, lovecraft, sabatini, hiaasen, pullman, chomsky, macdonald fraser, simmons, mcphee, wodehouse, leiber, blake, niven, l'engle, shaara, vonnegut, thompson, o'rourke.

Heroes:

noam chomsky, guy fawkes, winston churchill, bill nye, fats domino, cary grant, alan greenspan

My Blog

Thought id make a little update

Its been a while since I really did anything with this... myspace seems to be universally reviled among pretty much everyone I know up here, so most of my updating and whatnot has been on Livejou...
Posted by Nicolas on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:42:00 PST

Pittsburgh house pictures!

Here are a bunch of pictures I took of my place in pittsburgh as well as a trip I made recently to buffalo... enjoy! (thumbs... click to view full size)An outside picture of my house... my place is on...
Posted by Nicolas on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:53:00 PST

Travel plans!

So I posted a bulletin about this but if you all pay as much attention to myspace bulletins as I do I figure nobody will read it.  So the tentative plan is for me to spend a few days in gainesvil...
Posted by Nicolas on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:41:00 PST

Its weird to think

that over nine years in gainesville all the little social pursuits that took up so much of my time amounted to so very little.  I dont mean that as an insult to anybody, particularly the very exc...
Posted by Nicolas on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:47:00 PST

Moving Sale!

As a few of you know, im moving to Pittsburgh in probably a week and a half to attend the U Pitt Biomed PhD program.  Since im going up with my truck and whatever I can fit in it, im selling the ...
Posted by Nicolas on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:28:00 PST

nearly the longest question/answer list ive seen

Im just gonna fill this out once since im bored and never have to do another one of these again, since this seems to cover all the bases.  I expect maybe two of you are gonna bother reading this,...
Posted by Nicolas on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:39:00 PST

slaves of new york

These are exerpts from a review printed by Roger Ebert of the movie Slaves of New York... quite poignant, particularly since the review was printed in 1989.  It rather sums up quite a few feeling...
Posted by Nicolas on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 05:22:00 PST

Vacation time!

Im in italy till may 20th or so. To all of those leaving town while I am away, Ill miss you and I wish you the best. To all the rest: im gonna be sitting on my ass and bored all summer so we go...
Posted by Nicolas on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

holy crap

I just realised something... so im already an engineer and if the med school idea pans out ill be a neurosurgeon and im a hit away from being a rock star engineer... neurosurgeon... rock star....
Posted by Nicolas on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Thoughts at 5 AM

I was walking back to my car this evening after spending some quality time with friends when an automatic porch light came to life and I heard a sound like a wet gunshot behind me. I turned and saw t...
Posted by Nicolas on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST