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name :
Emmanuel  
nickname :
Manur  
born :

20th February 1976

 
living in :
Paris, France  
occupation :
computer (software development)  
   
  • 1976 - 1989 : an happy childhood in the most caring family. a very shy little guy.
  • 1990 - 1993 : high school. became a famous singer/composer, known as manur.
  • 1993 - 1998 : higher education in chemistry. engineer's degree. meet great people. write stuff in the students' paper. listen to jeff buckley and cry with joy. bored with chemistry. learn computer.
  • 1999 - 2000 : work in a computer company. become a deus fan. become addicted to the internet. make a lousy website. fall in love. begin to run a weblog.
 
   
 
music :
indie rock, house circa '96, indie pop, french stuff, female singers, bands with a violin
 
for example ?
dEUS, radiohead, jeff buckley, soulwax, chemical brothers, björk, guided by voices, weezer, tori amos, beastie boys, venus, jacques brel, smashing pumpkins, elliott smith, grandaddy...
 
books :
early douglas coupland, jim harrison, milan kundera, michel foucault, michel houellebecq, jd salinger, nick hornby, robert musil...
 
philosophy & politics :
humanist, green, nihilist, leftist, christian, situationnist, full of doubt, nothing at all
 
sexual orientation :
straight
 
what will you do when you grow up ?
write a book. or proper songs. or both. or become wise and die happy.
 
what would you bring on a desert island ?
a power plant
 
ideal woman ?
er.. björk ?
 
favourite quote ?

laetitia est hominis transitio a minore ad majorem perfectionem - Spinoza
(joy is the passion which drives the mind to an higher perfection)

 

e.b. june 2001