My name is Leon. I live in Cleveland in the House of Paisles with some of my closest Paisley friends. I am at the moment trying to get back into art school as an illustration major. I currently make money by doing marketing work for the local Quiznos. I'm really looking for a relationship more than just casual sex, and I have great difficulty finding other people who feel the same way about this. I am a huge film buff but am very critical of movies because I think that they have unparalleled potential as an art form and a lot of the stuff that gets churned out nowadays is shit. I love turn-of-the-century illustrated books, especially volumes of fairy tales. I like to have interpretive dance costume parties at my house. I am pretty much a romantic at heart. I think there is not enough acceptance and understanding in the world, and I try to do what little I can on a daily basis to remedy this. I am obsessed with Wagner's Ring operas and movies about aging crazy women. I have been known to sometimes have bouts of melancholy. I have a morbid aversion to the feeling of velvet; it has a nails-on-chalkboard effect on me and I don't know why. I like to walk around unshod and be out in the pouring rain. I can't watch the news: it upsets me too much. I love having inside jokes with people and referring to them ad nauseum. I LOVE paisley. I love my kitty; her name is Lol (very clever, I'm sure...not my idea, though...we adopted her from an ex-boyfriend of mine) although her name has since evolved into Princess Lollybee. I make jokes that people sometimes find disturbing or offensive. I feel like almost any situation can be solved by injecting an appropriate quote from Grey Gardens into the conversation. Disco music makes me want to clean, and sometimes when I'm doing the dishes I add a few drops of food colouring to the water to make it more fun. I'm somewhat intimidated by large groups of strangers. I like warm colours. I absolutely adore computer adventure games from the 80's and 90's, especially the Monkey Island games produced by LucasArts. Often times, when I'm in a store people will ask me where things are as if I work there. I have no idea why, but this has been going on for most of my life.

I am at the moment trying to get back into art school as an illustration major, and make money by whoring myself to Quiznos as the sales manager, which means I do marketing and keep track of catering clients, give out coupons, set up promotions, etc. In my spare time, I host themed parties and read Wikipedia.

Drawing, finding colours that go well with each other, making teriyaki salmon, analyzing the hell out of lots of things, making really overly-dramatic or sarcastic comments while keeping a straight face, finding things on the internet that are really really strange that disturb my friends.

Probably my hair...at the moment it's blonde and purple-ish. Lots of people mention my "bone structure", but I kind of think that's just a generic complement when people can't think of anything else nice to say. My Russian friend Anna thinks that my nose is "extremely sexy". I suppose I can be quite intense sometimes, and some people find that off-putting.

Books: Wuthering Heights, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Andersen's Fairy Tales, Great Expectations, Joseph Campbell, William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, Edward Gorey, FOUND magazine, The Picture of Dorian Gray, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, The Lord of the Rings, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, The Hunting of the Snark

Movies: Sunset Boulevard, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Pan's Labyrinth, Barbarella, Suspiria, Tommy, Fantastic Planet, Allegro Non Troppo, Return to Oz, The Dark Crystal, Metropolis, Grey Gardens, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Kill Bill, Mommie Dearest, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Murnau's Faust, Nosferatu, Big Trouble in Little China, Labyrinth, Moonwalker, Legend, Casablanca, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Wall, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Gone With the Wind, Forbidden Zone, Gummo, Howard the Duck, Xanadu, The Innocents, Repo: The Genetic Opera, The Wiz, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Magnolia, Donnie Darko, Requiem for a Dream, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Troll 2, Manos: The Hands of Fate, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Harold and Maude, Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête, The Royal Tenenbaums, Moulin Rouge!, Blood Freak, Glen or Glenda?, Amélie, Evil Dead, May, Silence of the Lambs, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, Jan Svankmajer's Alice and his Faust, the Brothers Quay, The Elephant Man, Castle Freak, Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute, The Triplets of Belleville, The Holy Mountain

Music: Dusty Springfield, The Pet Shop Boys, Rasputina, Shirley Bassey, Kate Bush, Sarah Brightman, Air, Röyksopp, Aphrodite's Child, Billie Holiday, Bjork, Boney M., David Bowie, Delerium, Enigma, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John, The Flaming Lips, Goddamn Electric Bill, Nina Hagen, Nina Simone, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, The Hidden Cameras, Hooverphonic, Jacques Brel, Janis Joplin, The Beatles, Lesley Gore, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Muse, My Chemical Romance, Nat King Cole, Olive, Tiffany, Simon and Garfunkel, Pink Floyd, Slim Whitman, Madonna, Tears for Fears, Louis Armstrong, Mozart, random 60's pop, any weird mixtures of genres like disco polka, etc. Oh, and Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds!

Food: CHINESE. Soup (especially in a bread bowl). Qdoba.

1. My friends
2. Music
3. Humour
4. The internet
5. Cuddling!
6. The delusion that myself and two close friends (livinginakhole and iamglittering on here) will one day live in a castle and constantly try to kill each other

How to help people, how to spread my message of love to the world, how I'm going to pay my rent...

...drunk.

As outgoing and socially inclined as I am, I am actually really insecure. I also have gynecomastia (man-boobs), although I'm not really overweight. I have some scars from having cut myself, some more unsightly than others, and I'm not particularly proud of them. My first true love was the evil Queen from Snow White. I'm pretty inexperienced as far as sex goes.

...we have similar interests, you find me intriguing, or just for the hell of it. Just do it. Don't be shy. Also feel free to friend me on Facebook; my name is Leon Nack.