"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child"
- Vladimir Nabokov

I relate to this quote. Not that I think I'm a genius or even a distinguished author but I know where he's coming from.

I just read my whole profile back and I'm a bit worried i come across as glib, arrogant and cynical. I'd like to be glib, arrogant and cynical, don't get me wrong, but I'm really not like that at all (actually I'd like to be Bogart in The Big Sleep). I'm rather shy and quiet in real life so all my most caustic, witty comments are saved for the interweb.

I'm somewhat dubious about this whole percentage matching thing. I have 98% matches with some people, which you would think would mean we should be practically irresistible to each other but then I read the profile and it seems we have little in common; or I send a message and get no reply. I still think people are more likely to go on the picture or some other peripheral factor.

Not what I should be but I'm working on changing that.

...quite a few things, passable at a fair few more and really bad at filling in online dating forms.

OK, I'll try to be less facetious. Hmm, I'm good at procrastinating (which seems to be a popular choice on here). I once had a book called The Procrastinator's Guide to Success but I never got round to reading it.
I like to do anything creative: writing, film making, songwriting but I wouldn't say I was really good at any of them.

I'm short. Not unusual but it is the first thing people probably notice. Although, that is an assumption, of course. I don't actually know the first thing people usually notice about me as I feel this would be a strange question to ask. Also, if you did ask them they'd probably lie anyway. So, in conclusion, who knows?

Books: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Anything by Kurt Vonnegut, The trial by Franz Kafka, Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, Raymond Chandler, Faulkner lots of non-fiction, lots of stuff I can't remember, any comic written in the sixties by Stan Lee, Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (a book everybody should read).

Movies: That would be a very long list, so I'll stick to a list of my favourite directors: Howard Hawks, Orson Welles, Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, The Coen Brothers, Sam Raimi, Jean Renoir, Fritz Lang,Preston Sturges, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Sam Peckinpah, James Whale, Buster Keaton, Michael Haneke, Powell and Pressburger, Luis Buñuel, F.W. Murnau, Nicholas Ray. That ended up being a long list anyway.

Music: I am certain of only one thing and that is Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan is the greatest work of art ever created, all else is conjecture. I have a negative gut reaction to anyone who uses the phrase 'I like all types of music except [insert genre here]'. It is the musical equivalent of the dreaded 'I'm not racist but...'. With that in mind here are some of my favourite artists (along with the aforementioned Dylan): The Beatles,Neil Young, Hank Williams, Robert Johnson, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke, The Beach Boys, Aimee Mann, Billie Holiday, Van Morrison, R.E.M., Aphex Twin, Big Star, Dean Martin, A Tribe Called Quest, Wilco, Chet Baker, Chuck Berry, The Byrds, Richard Thompson, Arcade Fire, TV on the Radio, Joni Mitchell, The Kinks, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Randy Newman, Beethoven...I'm sure I'll think of a few more later.

sleep, tea, cheese on toast, my guitar, my video camera, my MP3 player.

Why otherwise intelligent people sometimes believe in silly things like conspiracy theories, the paranormal, astrology and other such guff. Actually, I can think of a few good reasons, it just frustrates me, that's all.

I also spend a lot of time thinking about that thing which most guys spend a lot of time thinking about and thinking about ways I could be thinking about it less and doing it more.

doing something I probably shouldn't be. Or, alternatively, nothing at all.

This is like that bit in interviews where they ask you what your weaknesses are and you have to phrase them in a way so they actually sound like strengths. i.e., you want to reveal something which sounds like you should be ashamed of but actually shows how nice/cute/quirky/honest you are.
And after all that preamble, i can't actually think of anything.

You want to. It's not mandatory. But it would be nice.

Also if you prefer:
The Coen Brothers to Quentin Tarantino
Spider-Man 2 to The Dark Knight
The Simpsons to Family Guy
then I'll probably like you. I'll probably like you anyway, though 'cause that's the kind of guy I am.

Oh, and if you loathe Reflex (and tacky 80s nostalgia in general) then we should talk.