Nelson Pires

portrait 1 2 3 4What I´m doing to make money:

Fortunately, my father and mother gave me the opportunity to study what i love. Today I’m a beginner in survey engineering and i hope to work until I’m 80.

Top 5 of Books (random order):

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol

The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex by Murray Gell-Mann

Today I´m Reading:

Freeworld by Timothy Garton Ash

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

Geodesy by Wolfgang Torge

Top 5 of Directors (not in random order):

Quentin Tarantino

Stanley Kubrick

Roman Polanski

Joel Coen £ Ethan Coen

David Lynch

Top 10 of Musical Projects (definitely, in random order):

Giant Sand

Scott Walker

Depeche Mode

David Bowie

Squirrel Nut Zippers

The Velvet Underground

The Black Heart Procession

Howe Gelb

Air

Pixies

and so on, and so on….

My Hero: Winston Churchill, he just saved us….

Interests: Well, to many….listening music occupy 50% of my waked life, playing guitar and piano, shooting photography, traveling in Europe, playing tennis, and a problem with watching sports on TV, since tennis to curling, passing by snooker, Tour de France or athletics, I watch everything.

Don´t be afraid to contact me: nelsonrpires@gmail.com