don't want to write anything preachy and serious, and i can't think of anything witty.

how about some trivia? i'm slightly obsessed with Ali G. i like answering difficult questions. i like to swim laps and then eat a nectarine in the shower. i'm often awkward, but i think that should be allowed. i play in a band, but not very skillsfully. i can cook a decent meal from an unlikely assortment of left-overs. i'm quiet, irreverant, adaptable, stubborn, patient, analytical, mostly harmless.

i don't lie. i don't have hidden issues--at least i /think/ my (very few) flaws are plain to see. surely anything more you could possibly want would just be frosting on the cake?

but if i was a cake, i'd be a carrot cake

i guess i should mention that i'm not looking for "the one". i think on a site like this i'm more likely to just find platonic activity partners. and that'd be fine, but i can't help hoping for a blessing from the capricious & stingy deity of mutual attraction.

no idea how to help you guess if you're gonna be attracted to me. hmm. i look very young for 33, and i can act pretty boyish, but what apparently what attracts (some) women is my small but rock-solid kernel of self-confidence. or something.

i tend to be attracted to mischievous idealistic introspective 20-to-40-year-old underwear models

so, er, if you like the idea of a movie*, a game of pool, or a wander on the mountain, and you think you /might/ end up secretly lusting after my skinny white ass, mebbe drop me a line. oh, and i'll talk about /anything/. have for instance had a great conversation about cannibalism on a first date. and if you've any activities in mind, i may well join in. (but note that i refuse to watch televised sports, play games of pure luck**, or club.)

* by which i mean a genre-defying thought-provoking film such as Being John Malkovich or Ali G. In Da House.

** I'm nevertheless quite fond of Ching Chong Chai--in which there /should/ be no skill involved, assuming you don't cheat, right?

sigh. for 10 years i've been zig-zagging between psychology, software development, and long-distance relationships. (can one zig-zag between three things?)

awkwardness, nice voice, and invariably some sort of (apparently highly amusing) eccentric behavior that i think is totally logical

food: whatever is set before me, as long as it's not horrid greasy processed space-food

music: a little of everything: bob marley, miles davis, paul simon, bjork, portishead, radiohead, beatles, led zeppelin, manu chao, brian eno, talking heads, pretentious art rock & dorky 80's & indian classical.

books: bleak, gleeful, literate fiction (martin amis, iain banks, ian mcewan, tom robbins... barnes, barthelme, burgess, coupland, saki)

movies: bleak, gleeful, semi-arty.

trustworthy human company
solitude
computer
(swimming-pool with lanes) or (yoga classes) or (equivalent)
4 meals a day
music

playing music, language, graphs, landing the ideal job, whether or not it makes sense to zig-zag between three things, whether said zig-zagging would make sense only in three (or more) dimensions (picture an angular helix)

i.e. nothing of any practical use

reading
hangin with my family
band practise

i pick my nose. i masturbate. i poop. i'm lonely.

(but you already knew all that, except possibly the nose-picking.)