I'm special.
Grew up around the world, pretty smart, read a LOT by most standards; in a given conversation, I'm as likely to make references to Indo-European root words as I am to Ahura-Mazda or Heisenberg. I'm not so much funny as painfully and ironically dry. I am philosophical yet pragmatic, idealistic yet brutal, right but hoping I'm wrong. I'm a rationalist mystic. I'm also tall.

I am incisive, loquacious, and ironic

Mostly marking time at the moment; contemplating a drastic relocation in the near future, so while I'm working on writing and some personal projects, I'm not really sending power to the wheels just now.

Finding the synthesis; translating one person's thoughts into another person's mind-set and vice versa. I'm very good at seeing all the angles, which makes me appear equivocal at times, but also makes me an excellent propagandist. I'm good at finding relationships between highly disparate ideas and thought structures.
I also make classic cocktails well, especially ones with bitters

I'm tall, and I'm often dressed, shall we say, oddly. My head gives the impression of being enormous, which may be a function of the pronounced zygomatic arch, or possibly my inflated opinion of myself. I speak clearly and well, and this can have a mesmeric influence on people; I have so far resisted the temptation to apply it on larger audiences.

Mmm. The book question always stumps me. I used to be a big Joseph Conrad fan, and I still consider "Heart of Darkness" among the shortest philosophically devastating novels of all time. The craftsmanship of the thing is just breathtaking. I read a lot of sci-fi, particularly the hard stuff; Bear, Benford, Sheffield all favorites, but for sheer sparkling story-telling Zelazny is hard to beat (he's my stylistic hero). Early influences on my own writing would include Hemingway and LOTS of Thomas Wolfe (not the "Bonfire of the Vanities" guy, the one who died of tubercles in his brain in 1938).
Music: I'm a classicist at heart, I suppose; I listen to symphonies and such, even opera. In more modern terms I tend to be all over the place; I'll go from Loreena McKennitt to Rammstein without a segue; I find "world music" fascinating (and in my case "world music" isn't just code for "African"). I confess to a strange enjoyment of Ligeti as well, atonalities and all.
Food: I like food, which explains the 20 pounds or so I could still stand to lose. I'll eat virtually anything that people at a table somewhwere in the world are eating; I'm fascinated by the culinary landscape. I also cook a little, mostly simple Mediterranean stuff, but some Thai and Indian dishes as well. Curried red lentils and chickpea chhole are my diet dishes these days. I was a vegetarian (ovo-lacto) for a year or so, and rather enjoyed it, and if good Indian food were readily available, I'd go back tomorrow.
Yes, I would eat dogs and horses and even people without any moral qualms. I'm equal opportunity that way.

-Books
-Some human contact
-Sunlight
-Love, I suppose; I've never truly been without it
-Inner luminosity; that may just be love again in disguise
-Sex would be nice; I like sex, I really do; it can really help with the luminosity thing

Game theory; particualrly as it applies to the complex interplay of forces and interests that drives the evolution of human societies; this is the essential question of politics: When must we curb or redirect human motivations, and when should we use them to drive the engine of civilization?
Philosophy and anthropology, and particularly the intersection of the two. Was Plato the first explicit fascist? (Hint: yes). Do all theistic religions reach a point of philosophical development at which they must either diverge toward monotheism or toward a formalized and essentially allegorical (i.e. non-religious) polytheism (as Greece went, and Scandinavia probably would have if given the time)(and my answer is "yes"). Does this apply in anyway to animistic traditions? (Apparently not)
Am I the one writing this, or am I the one watching it written? And if I'm the watcher, who is aware of the watcher? Is this an infinite regression?
What kind of cocktail would I like? What is the relationship between mathematical models of Chaos and Buddhism?

Usually either at the home of my married friends having a beer or four, out at the pub with said friends, in the adjacent town with my ex and our international cadre, or occasionally, sitting at home smoking and reading and mixing myself a Manhattan.

Kind of at a loss to find a balance between "interesting," and "wildly inappropriate" here. For now, ask me if there's something private you'd like to know, and we'll see, okay?

You have the ability to put words together in a syntactically and semantically meaningful way. Seriously, that's the big hump; everything after that is gravy. Write if you think you're interesting (yes, "if YOU think YOU'RE interesting"); I mean really, if YOU don't, how do you expect anyone else to be fascinated by you? I'M interesting, so don't be shy!