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TONY

You Only Live Once - Get it Right!

About Me

Scientist § Engineer § Musician § Classicist § Philosopher Waging war against apathy and ignorance


As a scientist, I’m fascinated by molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics. I DON’T believe in modern drugs. I promote the use of natural products and a healthy lifestyle. I WILL live to be very old.

I believe in alternative energies – a proponent of solar power, wind power, ecological homes and environmental ecology.

I USED to be an engineer – I designed high pressure systems for the energy industries – anything seriously dangerous, where lives were at risk. I tried to make them SAFE.

As a musician, I play the violin and piano (badly). I’m a composer.

Oh yes, I used to own an art gallery near Italy. I love art - all kinds - and multimedia - an expression of humanity.

Ancient history and ancient languages fascinate me, as do all methods of communication. I started with Latin, then worked back – Greek, Etruscan, Egyptian, Cuneiform. We can learn a lot from the past. The ancients were clever people. What happened?

Did you realise that "atomic theory" was developed around 400BC ?

Life can only be explained by philosophy – you are what and who you BELIEVE you are – but it’s your interactions with others that determine your true WORTH.

I've had the good fortune to work in many parts of the world and meet wonderful people of all races, colors and religions. Some very rich, some very poor, but most possessing an innate goodness and humanity which shines through no matter what their walk of life. There is so much potential for good in the world, if only we could find a way to tap into it, bypassing the interference and self-interests of governments and big business. I guess that's my mission.

My Interests

The World
Ecology
Music
Art
Science
Philosophy
Ancient History
Fitness

Art: Renaissance
Pre-raphaelites
Surrealist
Symbolist:
Moreau
Delville
Klimt
Mucha
Schwabe
Khnopff
Boecklin
von Stuck
Malévitch
Bakst
Podkowinski
Malczewski

I'd like to meet:



Those who think, those who would like to think, those who don't know what to think...
Those who care... about the planet, about others, about themselves... hopefully YOU!

Then, and only then:

Leonardo da Vinci - Beethoven - Einstein - Schweitzer - Gandhi - Copernicus - Bianca Tavares



Music:

I like music - all types
I'm inspired by:
Bethoven
Bach
Wagner
Mahler
Berg
Bartok
Nielsen

Movies:

Krzysztof Kieslowski
Andrzej Wajda
Roman Polanski
Jacques Tati
François Truffaut
Marcel Pagnol
Orson Welles
Sergei Eisenstein
Francis Ford Coppola

Television:

Documentaries
Detective Dramas
The Avengers
The Prisoner
Jason King
Department S
The Champions

Books:

Italian Literature:
Petrarch
Virgil
Dante
Bocaccio
French Literature:
Le petit prince
Cocteau
Baudelaire
Verlaine
Rimbaud
Apollinaire
Sartre
Camus
Eluard
Genet
Gide
Colette
Verne
Balzac
Zola
Gautier
Spanish Literature:
Borges
Lorca
Neruda
English Literature:
Anglo-Saxon
Chaucer
Shakespeare
Marlowe
Keats
Wilde
Huxley
German Literature:
Nietzche
Mann
Hesse
Ancient Literature:
Catullus
Ovid
Horace
Virgil
Juvenal
Cicero
Lucretius
Plato
Aristophanes
Aeschylus
Homer

My Blog

So this is Christmas!

Another year almost over, another Christmas only days away& time simply flies by, doesn't it! Well, I can't say it's been an easy year, what with one thing and another. But you know something? I can't...
Posted by TONY on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:06:00 PST

La charité n'est pas la solution !

Prêter l'argent aux pauvres! Une idée tellement stupide, non! Les banques doivent sûrement prêter qu'aux riches, qui n'ont pas besoin de l'argent, et comme ça elles auront au moins une chance de récup...
Posted by TONY on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:35:00 PST

Charity is not the answer !

Making loans to poor people&  What a stupid, stupid idea!!   Surely banks must only loan to the rich, who don't need the money, so at least they have a chance of getting some of their hard-e...
Posted by TONY on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:42:00 PST

Etes-vous Epicurien?

Beaucoup de bêtises sont dites au sujet de d'Epicure et l'Epicurisme. J'en ai ras le bol. J'ai donc décidé d'écrire cet article dans le but d'apporter quelques précisions, au moins pour mes amis de My...
Posted by TONY on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:26:00 PST

Friday 13th October 1307

Life means change   The number 13 and this day, Friday the 13th, remind us of this fact.     However, few people realize that this day is considered unlucky because of currencies and ec...
Posted by TONY on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:54:00 PST

Are you an Epicurean?

So much rubbish is talked about Epicurus and Epicureanism. I'm sick of hearing it. So this article is an attempt to set the record straight, at least for my MySpace friends, who I know have enquiring ...
Posted by TONY on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:13:00 PST

Armes bactériologiques

Vous avez jamais entendu du Lipitor ???   Je parie que bon nombre d'entre vous connait au moins le nom. En fait c'est le médicament (la drogue) à fort tirage du monde  et qui a produit de plus ...
Posted by TONY on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:06:00 PST

Biological weapons

Ever heard of Lipitor ???   I bet many of you have. In fact it's the world's best-selling drug  generating more than $12 billion in revenues for its manufacturer, Pfizer.   But here's a fa...
Posted by TONY on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:56:00 PST

Murder by death

Did you know ---   About 100 billion people have died since humans first walked the earth. The practice of burying the dead may date back 350,000 years?   There's a fascinating article in Di...
Posted by TONY on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:24:00 PST

Dancing in Paris

Dancing in Paris / La Danse à Paris TV advert for ISUZU Gemini from the 1980's - these are not computer animations - those cars were really 'flying' in the air! And it's just malicious gossip t...
Posted by TONY on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 04:34:00 PST