There is a pretty big grey area that my profile creates. The questions that I've answered and the stuff I've written are a bit ambiguous. It's the best I can do, but this profile doesn't really define me completely. I don't know how to make it better.

I think I'm pretty simple, nothing unique.
I have heaps of interests (read: almost everything), but the closest to passion would be art, music and cooking.
I'm open minded and non-judgemental, naive and a perfectionist.
I like parody.
I'm a solo father, two young kids (2 year old son and a 4 and a half year old daughter). I take care of them full time. I wouldn't have it any other way, even if they drive me up the wall at times.
So, being in a mature environment is somewhat rare... I'm pretty good at building forts.

And I need another 50 words to fill this up...
What I am Looking for Out of this Website.
Option 1. 40% likelihood of occuring.
We'll talk over a chat program for a few weeks. I'll try to use ICQ, but settle on MSN if that's what happens.
Once we've satisfied our reservations, we'll meet up in Hagley Park on a weekend just after lunch.
There will be a few topics of conversations. We'll be mature about what we're looking for, not wanting to waste the other's time in a fruitless and ultimately hopeless situation. By the time we have to part, a majority of the time we have spent together will be moments of accepting, comfortable silence.
There will be one week after our meeting of awkward conversations over ICQ and we'll eventually cease interactions.
A few months later, maybe a year, we'll talk once more.
You'll ask how the kids are, I'll ask about your life.
We'll leave the conversation on good terms, knowing that there is just another person out there that we hope the best for without needing to make any attempts on their behalf.

Option 2. 40% likelihood of occuring.
We'll talk over a chat program for a few weeks. I'll try to use ICQ, but settle on MSN if that's what happens.
Once we've satisfied our reservations, we'll meet up in Hagley Park on a weekend just after lunch.
There will be a few topics of conversations. We'll be mature about what we're looking for, not wanting to waste the other's time in a fruitless and ultimately hopeless situation. By the time we have to part, a majority of the time we have spent together will be crowning moments of awesome.
There will be one week after our meeting of slightly awkward conversations over ICQ but we'll always know that a relationship is out of the question. After that week, we'll have relaxed conversations about anything.
Every couple of weeks, maybe only once a month or so, we'll catch up for a coffee and talk about a common interest.
You'll continue being awesome in my eyes, and I'll continue with my life.
We'll leave practically all conversations on good terms, knowing that there is just another person out there that we hope the best for without needing to make any serious attempts on their behalf. Someone that we just care about.

Option 3. 1% likelihood of occuring.
We'll talk over a chat program for a few weeks. I'll try to use ICQ, but settle on MSN if that's what happens.
Once we've satisfied our reservations, we'll meet up in Hagley Park on a weekend just after lunch.
There will be a few topics of conversations. We'll be mature about what we're looking for, not wanting to waste the other's time in a fruitless and ultimately hopeless situation. By the time we have to part, a majority of the time we have spent together will be our thoughts for the rest of the week.
It just could be ... something. JUST LIKE THE MOVIES!

Option 4. 19% likelihood of occuring.
We'll talk over a chat program for a few weeks. I'll try to use ICQ, but settle on MSN if that's what happens.
Once we've satisfied our reservations, we'll meet up in Hagley Park on a weekend just after lunch.
You'll be a fantastic actress, and I'll get dragged into a car after you jab a needle into my forehead.
There will be a few tests of convictions. But we'll be mature about what we're looking for, not wanting to waste the other's time in a fruitless and ultimately hopeless situation. By the time my training is over and we have to part, I'll be brainwashed and 'roided out into being the Ultimate Super Soldier.
There will be one week of rest before I start my awkward operations over land, sea and air. We'll cease interactions once I get captured by the opposing forces.
A few months later, maybe a year, I'll reappear once more.
You'll ask how can I still be alive, I'll ask about the brainwashing and where I can get more steroids.
We'll leave the conversation on good terms, knowing that there is just another person out there that we hope can learn about either 'the needs of the many' or 'individual freedom' without needing to make any attempts on their lives.

And, of course, the scenario I'm trying to avoid:
You: a nut job.
Me: applying for restraining order.

Projects while I'm at home with the youngest.
I've got four canvases that need painting, a couple of larger collages, a couple of sculptures and nearly countless sewing projects.
Along with trying to get back into playing music, gardening, learning Japanese...
I'll be dead before I even get close.
In the future I'll be heading back to study, 2011 most likely. I'm guessing a BFA would work well and using it as a stepping stone to become a high school teacher would be prudent. I'd love to be the next Richard Avedon or Dorethea Lange but I'm not going to hold my breath.
I want to travel away from Christchurch (maybe teach overseas for a few years?). We need more of the Elite here, and less of the Elitism.
My life revolves around the kids. There is nothing I can do about that and yes, it does get me down ~at times~, now that I am firmly part of the establishment. But you gotta do what you gotta do. In 10-15 years I'll be "free" and THEN THE WORLD WILL BE MY OYSTER! DRUGS! SEX! ROCK AND ROLL! VAGABOND LIFESTYLE! Just gotta bide my time and stockpile Crosby, Stills and Nash albums.

Letting others do their thing.
I'm reasonably good at most things, but I don't really excel at anything.
I'm pretty modest.
I'm actually incredibly modest.
I am fucking *AWESOME* at everything.
Yes. Everything.

Thinking thoughts like the guy in this:
http://xkcd.com/642/

I wouldn't have a clue. The best description of me would be nondescript. I'd make a good spy.
Or model. Have I mentioned that I am totally gorgeous? In a stoic, depressing, kind of way.

Books -High school stuff like To Kill a Mockingbird. I've tried Gormenghast a few times, but they are really heavy books. I should read more. I've read a bit, but no where near enough.

Movies -Chinatown, Long Day's Journey into Night, Dead Man usually dramas or movies that film critics go on about how the director directed the movie. However, I'd be willing to watch (almost) anything. Brokeback Mountain = Hell Yeah! Porn = maybe no. And those four examples sound incredibly serious. The Big Lebowski is awesome, as are The Marx Brothers. My daughter likes The Care Bears, I'm starting to know the songs.

Music -Tall Dwarfs, Belle and Sebastian, Neutral Milk Hotel. Pretentious Hipster Rock! I like most genres, I can't get into Metal, it just has next to no appeal to me. Metal is the only genre that I don't really like. I like country more than metal.

Food - I love food, but I hate wasting food more. I understand that food is more of a fuel necessity, but it can taste really good. I love lots of flavour and high quality food, but toasted sandwiches or a can of baked beans are fine when there are other factors. I do a lot of stuff from scratch. I'll eat almost anything and enjoy it. Except peas, like boiled frozen peas served on the side. I hate peas by themselves.
Food is, like totally, a thing with me. I *hate* wasting food. I've said that twice now. I'm a decent cook. I focus on complete meals with all the different bits working together to compliment each other. I try to make meals that contain a protein, a carbohydrate, vitamins and etc. That's the way I roll.

1) Yo la Tengo, and music in general.
2) Eyeliner.
4) Study Forks.
8) The Moon to Look at when The Nights ARE SO lnoley.
0) 220-240 AC Power, Baby.

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Doing my own thing. I'm a solo father, what the hell do you think I'm doing? I'm watching a movie, attempting to do one of the many "Work in Progress" Projects I have going, doing dishes or tidying the house up.
(I'm secretly training to be the Ultimate Super Soldier. Now that Cap is gone there's an opening. I'll start off as Bucky's sidekick.)

I smoke and I'm finding it exceptionally hard to quit. It's a sign of weakness that I kinda, sorta, want to quit and can't do it yet.
I also am deathly afraid of sex. Don't get me wrong, I was with my previous partner for 4 years and we averaged 6 times a week over that entire period. I'm fine *talking* about it. I'm just terrified of STD's, pregnancy or that emotional bond that happens. Well, maybe not deathly afraid. But I have serious trust issues that would most likely override any evolutionary desire to procreate for an indeterminable length of time.
Hence the "Less Desiring of Sex" and "Less Kinky" Icon that I have obtained. Yet, I like sex. It's "fun". Disgusting, but "fun".
Private enough for ya?
"Things You Don't Want to Know: Sex Life of Complete Strangers".

I like the idea of talking to people.
You should message me. I'll talk to you. I'm interesting in what you want to say. Seriously, my conversations are almost completely limited to talking to a kid who is nearly 5 years old. Alex has like, 50 words. As much as I love hearing "PLANE DAD! PLANE??!?" It's doesn't leave me a lot of interaction. He's almost grasped aerodynamics, but he's not quite there yet.
I really want an adult conversation. Not adult-R18, I'd most likely get uncomfortable, but an adult to have a conversation. With.
If you have a mixed blues, jazz or classical cd that you want to give me, some anime or a movie (bonus points if it's silent or western) that I should watch or something else that I should enlighten myself with. Those niches are hard to get into, but what little I have dabbled in I really like. I'd give you a dvd/cd with something on it that you might like. Mutual Growth, dude, it's the way to go.
Message me if you want to share and share alike, fo' shure.
If we click: Cool. If we don't: We never have to communicate again.
Win-Win.