For some reason my Friend percentages with everyone else on this site have gone down by about 20 points. I haven't answered any questions lately, so I can't figure it out. Especially when my other match percentages have remained unchanged. Kinda weird. I think it is prolly a bug.

Anyhoo...

I've been a singer in rock bands since my early 20's. I'm a good vocalist; a mediocre guitarist and keyboardist; and I'm struggling to learn mandolin and ukelele.

I do my best work collaborating with musicians of much greater talent than myself, but I've written a handful of songs on my own that I'm proud of. I've received $2.49 in songwriting royalties for a song I wrote a couple years back, so I guess I'm a professional. I'm not quitting my day job.

I like performing in a band with an eclectic style. I suppose most of my stuff can be categorized as alternative rock, but I'd like to think I paint with a pretty broad emotional palette within that genre.

When I was around 26, I told myself if nothing came of the music thing by the time I was 30, I'd quit. Now I'm giving myself the same ultimatum for when I reach 40. We'll see if I stick to it or not.

If I were..., I'd be

Stone - obsidian;

Wood - Yew;

Movement - Falling;

A Tool - Logic;

A Color - Midnight Blue;

A Human Activity - Dreaming;

A Work of Art - La Morte D'Arthur, by Sir Thomas Malory;

A weapon - Sarcasm;

A natural phenomenon - Saint Elmo's Fire;

A force of nature - A glacier;

An animal - Coyote;

A mythological being - Orpheus

I'm an unambitious college dropout working at a dead end job because I prioritize time and comfort over success and security.

如果我是…， I' d是 石頭-黑曜石; 木頭-赤柏松; 運動-落; 工具-邏輯; 顏色-午夜藍色; 人类活动-作夢; 艺术作品- La Morte D' 亞瑟，由托馬斯・ Malory先生; 武器-諷刺; 自然现象-聖徒Elmo' s火; 自然力量-冰川; 動物-土狼; 一個神話是-奧費斯

Incidentally, I've come to discover that this site describes me as being really really really "into drugs."

I won't lie and say I haven't experimented. But I wouldn't say I'm a drug-abuser. I think maybe my politics is what gets me in trouble... I tend to be libertarian in matters of drug-rights, despite the fact that I'm not much of a user myself. But don't get me wrong, I have done my share. I'm not doing any now, but I might do more in the future.

Also this site says I'm poorly mannered. I dunno why that would be.

Working, playing, loving. Sometimes even creating, though that seems to be getting harder and harder.

avoiding things.

... and explaining things

My blue eyes? My long hair? My crooked teeth? I really couldn't say for sure.

A) I like books. I like reading. I read a lot. With me, illiteracy is a deal-breaker for a long-term romantic relationship. Nothing personal. It doesn't mean I think any less of you as a human being, or that we couldn't be friends or short term lovers or anything. Just not life-partners. (that word makes me smirk).

Okay, twist my arm. I'll name some writers I like. This list is not inclusive:

William Gibson, William Shakespeare, William Carlos Williams, William Blake, C.S Lewis, H.P. Lovecraft, E.E. Cummings, Ezra Pound, Robert A. Heinlein, Robert E. Howard, Michael Moorecock, Thomas Malory, Ursula K. Leguin, Sherri S. Tepper, Peter Hamilton, Jack Vance, Douglas Adams, Larry Niven, Phillip K. Dick, Robert Reed, Dan Simmons, P.G. Wodehouse, Stephen Baxter...

Also I like comics. Well I used to like comics. Now I just read Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, John Byrne, and Garth Ennis.

B) My requirement for a movie is that the makers of the movie have to care... or at least fool me into believing they care. If they can't do that, I won't like the movie, no matter how many explosions or decapitations it may have.

I'm still debating if this rule applies to porn.

I have a soft spot for really cheesy movies, like Godzilla and Enter the Dragon. Naturally, I'm a big fan of MST3K.

C) I have a strange relationship with music. The music that influences my own music is often not the music I really enjoy the most.

Genre-wise, I like classic rock, industrial, alt-grunge-whatever the hell rock-and-roll gets called these days, blues, old school jazz (the kind you'd hear at a speakeasy in the 20's), 80's progressive pre-goth, techno-folk, and country music if it was a song produced more than 30 years ago (Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, etc) because most country after that is just pop music with a steel guitar and a fiddle thrown in to cover up the shitty basslines.

Also I don't listen to music done by contest-winners. This includes the current incarnation of INXS and the Pussycat Dolls, as well as all the winners of American Idol. Sorry.

Somebody pointed out to me that even the fools that DON'T actually win American Idol sometimes get airplay and recording contracts. So I'm revising my above statement to say I also don't listen to people who have lost contests only to wind up signed and/or on the radio either.

I like Radiohead a lot. Mebbe- mebbe too much a lot.

D) I enjoy all kinds'a food, with a few odd exceptions. I'd list them, but then that would give them power over me.

That being said, I can mention that I'm not a big condiment kinda guy. I don't dip my fries in ketchup, and I don't need to put ranch dressing on anything other than salad (and that's only if they don't have pesto). For that matter, I don't think Thousand Island belongs on a hamburger, nor do I believe that steak sauce "brings out" the flavor of a steak.

But it isn't a deal-breaker if you disagree with me here.

My guitar, my books, writing supplies, my friends, A sense of humor

Oh yeah, metaphors... can't live without my metaphors.

story ideas, lyrics, regrets, half-assed plans for the future, alternate futures, what it'd be like to have super powers, how I'd fix the world if I were in charge, how I'd fix myself if I were in charge, my uncollapsed quantum-wave daughter, ideas for characters for various roleplaying games, ideas for scenarios/campaigns for various roleplaying games, friends whom I see too little, friends whom I see too much, and sex.

And how things maybe could have been different if only I had...

Increasing the completeness of my profile by expanding my essays by sixty-eight (68) characters.

Thirteen down, just another fifty-five (55) to go. Ooh, that last sentence ate up some more characters! Do spaces count as characters?

Erhöhung die Vollständigkeit meines Profils durch die Erweiterung meiner Versuche durch achtundsechzig (68) Buchstaben. Dreizehn unten, gerade ein anderes fünfundfünfzig (55) zum zu gehen. Ooh, dieser letzte Satz aß herauf mehr Buchstaben! Gelten Räume als Buchstaben?

A lot of people seem to have a problem with this question, saying "If it's private, why should I put it here?"

I suppose it stems from the fact that they view the word "privacy" digitally. That is, something is either private or not private, like a light switch is either on or off.

But the question actually says "what is the MOST private thing you are willing to admit here," implying that the privacy of a given concept is on a continuum. In other words, it's like a light switch with a dimmer.

So, all you have to do is find something that has the degree of privacy that you feel comfortable sharing with everyone who reads your profile.

... which, in most cases, isn't something very private at all...

Anyhoo, my new answer is reading Mists of Avalon made me cry

You are interested in exchanging messages with me; chatting with me; signing me on your record label; helping me complete all my unfinished fiction; helping me publish my fiction; or you have a joke I'd maybe like.

Do NOT message if you think maybe I'd be an interesting project for you to work on. I have enough emotional mad scientists in my life as it is.