I'm a bit of an introverted dreamer with a taste for elegant, individual art and entertainment that captures my sense of wonder and sparks my imagination.

My parents are old hippies (consequentially I am vegetarian), but I'm also part goth, gamer geek, enjoy nature and animals (when I moved into my house the local stray cat joined me)... so I'm not sure that I strongly identify with any particular phyle, but am open to (and have a preference for) 'alternative' folks, in general.

In social gatherings I'll be the one lurking quietly on the sidelines, only occasionally interjecting with something dark, cynical or outrageous (think Jimmy Carr, Jack Dee etc.)... but in a one on one situation I'm much more talkative.

Like many, my musical taste is quite broad, but does not include following the current charts of commercial pop and r'n'b... My most frequently played music falls into the 'classic rock' genre, along with alternative, metal and the occasional bit of reggae.

My job is... convenient, I lack a burning ambition to do anything else and it pays the mortgage, so it will suffice for the while.
I instead divert my enthusiasm to the consumption and analysis of entertainment - mostly fantasy and sci-fi themed books, films, computer games and roleplaying games; eg I spent many hours at the beginning of this year in Skyrim and every tuesday night I have friends round for D&D.

I usually get along well with animals and have a minor talent for fixing things - it seems whenever some bit of equipment goes wrong at work it ends up on my desk to deal with...

I've also been told that I'm a good listener and give 'the best' hugs, but I'm sure that's very subjective!

Probably the 'evil twin' facial hair and receding hairline, but also that I'm quite well spoken and my sense of humour tends to delight in the outrageous.

Books: the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy by Tad Williams, the First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie, the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher, the Winter of the World trilogy by Michael Scott-Rohan.
Films: Flight of Dragons, Bladerunner, Legend, Conan the Barbarian, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, The Big Lebowski, The Descent, The Ninth Gate, Manhunter.
Music: Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, The Cure, The Mission, Manic Street Preachers, BRMC, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Toots and the Maytals, Max Romeo and the Upsetters.
TV: Supernatural, Dexter, Daybreak, CSI: Las Vegas, Farscape, Firefly, Chuck, Blade, Legend of the Seeker, Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, Samurai 7.
Art: Kay Nielsen, Edmund Dulac, Ivan Bilibin, Wayne Anderson, Patrick Woodroffe, Brom, Michael Whelan, Antoni Gaudí.

Oxygen.
An appropriately pressurised atmosphere.
Water.
Food.
The ability to move about.
My dark sense of humour ;)

Life, the universe & everything... I enjoy having a good conversation about the realities of existence and coming up with far-fetched solutions to the world's troubles.

...avoiding going out, 'cause it's Friday night - everywhere's going to be packed!

I have a small social cirlce of fairly close friends that I see sporadically and otherwise I only tend to go out to see something at the cinema, a gig or some other event that I'm particularly interested in... regular nights out drinking/partying haven't been part of my life for many years now.

Though I like the idea of total gender equality, I don't 'believe' in it on a fundamental, instinctual level.
For example: I was in a club and a transvestite slipped on the stairs infront of me, I reached out to stop 'her' from banging her head. But afterwards I was uncomfortably aware that if this person had been in their natural male 'persona', I probably wouldn't have been so quick to help.

You'd like to meet up at a cafe or pub for a casual chat - I'm not the sort of person that believes in getting to know someone through a protracted exchange of emails, meeting in person is a much surer and faster way to determine if we might get along together.