CURRENT MISSION

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ABOUT ME

Eccentric, a little too eccentric for average people. So be careful :))))))

PHILOSOPHY

What will not kill me will only make me stronger. Carpe Diem! In Vino Veritas ;)))

Interests

A lifelong obsession on Classical Music, since early childhood until I die ;), History, Linguistics, Art, Travel ( a lot and mostly alone), Medical Science, Drinking Vodka, good wine, friendly arguments and theological debates:))

• arts
• wine
• drinking
• traveling
• music
• classical music
• history
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

I could name you my favourite authors, since there are too many to mention if I have to make a list of the books I've read. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Boris Pasternak, Lev Tolstoy, Mikhail Lermontov, Alexander Pushkin, Thomas Bernhard, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Brueder Grimm (I'm a child at heart), Thomas Mann, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Joseph Konrad, Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera, Leonardo Sciascia, and others I forgot to mention.

As for Musik, ohhh, this will be a very long list. Primarily I love almost all forms of classical music, from Salon music (Fritz Kreisler), concertos, symphonies, solo piano, cello and violin works, sonatas, partitas, prelude and fugues, and many more. I have a strong affinity with the Romantic Period, especially with Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, Liszt, and late romantic like Skryabin, Rachmaninov. Then the Baroque period, I love Bach above all. When I feel not so emotional, I could play Bach all day for many hours non stop. For the classical period, I like it less as I grew older, except for Mozart's Operas and Singspiels, and Beethovoen's later Sonatas and works (towards the last years of his life). Wagner, I think he is the greatest when it comes to opera. I would go to different cities in Bavaria, and Austria, just to see his operas, and spending most of my money on expensive seats. We only live once, and therefore we must enjoy and do what we love most to the fullest as if it's the last day of our lives, because we might not have another opportunity. Life is so unpredictable. The only certainty about life, is death.

As for Film. I mostly like scientific, archeological, historical, artistic, culinary, forensic science, aircrash investigation documentaries. These are the films that excite me most. As for feature films, I would watch anything worth watching. :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Too many. Some are confidential. My life has too many adventures, some good, some bad, some very bad :) with endless travels in different countries, some very remote and uninhabited, mostly, places that 99 percent of people on earth have never been to.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Gibraltar, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Oman, Qatar, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovakia, Somalia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Yemen

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Philippines, United States