I am:: Reliable, faithful, loyal, honest (sometimes when I shouldn’t be), independent, quiet, introverted, logical, straight forward, somewhat geeky, 100% guaranteed no drama or head games.

I'm a paradox...I love bad taste and high art. I'm solitary yet enjoy gatherings. I'm quiet yet enjoy conversations. I'm very sexual yet very reserved. I'm lonely yet very comfortable alone. You should be a paradox too...they're fun and sexy! I dig sarcasm. I can appreciate a night out as much as a night alone. I enjoy nature , fresh air and riding my bike, but I also like lounging about watching a movie or playing some video games.

I dance like a madman and can spin in one place for a very long time. I'm way too good at acting like a monkey. I am portable. I am a force against all that is drama. I'm open minded yet still somewhat sheltered (and therefore bored).

I am really bad at flirting. I'm very much NOT smooth, but can be very sweet. I have thousands of CDs and will gladly burn you mixes. I have never been called floppy, sour, impenetrable, necessary, mythical, querulous, synthetic, undercooked, or widespread. The apes have assured me that once they take over I will be one of the few humans left alive.

I share a townhouse with friends. I don’t make a whole lot of money but I am financially independent and stable. I do video editing for a small company and generally like my job, though am not really sure where I’ll be in 5 years. I have my own car & one cat though I'm really a dog person, which is probably why she's very dog-like.

I'm trying to teach myself to play guitar...it's going very slowly at the moment.

Video/film editing, dancing (don't get too much practice with a partner though), analyzing, getting to the point, cutting through the bullshit, making smoothies, suggesting movies or music, splashing in the rain, board/card/video games, petting my cat (no, I'm really serious, I'm really very good at that).

If I happen to be out at a club, they probably notice me spinning wildly on the dance floor first.

Other than that I have no idea...I'm never really sure how others perceive me.

Music:
Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Bat For Lashes, The Gathering, SWANS, The Angels of Light, Tool, Tori Amos, Regina Spektor, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Clash, David Bowie, St. Vincent, The Dresden Dolls, Current 93, Coil, Iggy Pop, Rasputina, The Killers, Placebo, Gogol Bordello, Antony & The Johnsons, Rufus Wainwright, Faith and the Muse, Oingo Boingo, Johnny Cash, Opeth, Akron/Family, Fiona Apple, The The, Ego Likeness, Pop Will Eat Itself, Agalloch, Dead Can Dance, Fields of the Nephilim, Arcade Fire, Bat For Lashes, Devin Townsend, Orphaned Land, Tiamat, Enslaved, Brave, Sopor Aeternus, Neurosis, Lycia, Foetus, Joy Division, New Order, Aesma Daeva, The Pogues, Flogging Molly, Nightwish, Violent Femmes, Death Cab For Cutie, Amber Asylum, Jeff Buckley, The Legendary Pink Dots, Duran Duran, Maudlin of the Well, Tyr,Green Carnation, X-Japan, Sunshine Blind, Love Spirals Downwards, Murder By Death, KMFDM, This Mortal Coil, Razed in Black, Pigface, Laibach, X, Controlled Bleeding, Depeche Mode, Front 242, Pet Shop Boys, Solefald, Iron Maiden, Voltaire, OMD, Novembers Doom, Smiths, Interpol, most goth / industrial / metal / new wave / alternative / indie etc.

Movies:
Kubrick, Fellini, Kurosawa, Bunuel, Bertolucci, Kenneth Anger, Maya Deren, David Lynch, Chris Marker, Scorsese, Oliver Stone, The Brothers Quay, Romero, Polanski.
There's a special place in my heart for horror films - Nightmare on Elm Street, Child's Play & Chucky movies, most zombie films.
The geek in me loves the superhero movies & LOTR & Matrix, etc.
Big fan of modern Asian cinema too. Takashi Miike (Audition, Dead or Alive, etc.) is one of the greatest filmmakers working today. Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, Azumi, etc.) is pretty good too. Battle Royal and Oldboy are great too.
Other random titles...Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Memento, Let the Right One In, Mirrormask, Cemetary Man, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Funny Games, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, M, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Donnie Darko, I Heart Huckabees, Brokeback Mountain, Once, Perfume, Fight Club, There Will Be Blood, Holy Mountain, El Topo, Martyrs, Labyrinth, Brotherhood of the Wolf, most titles on the Criterion label, most anything obscure & bizarre or geeky blockbusters.

Books:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Lolita, Heart of Darkness, Lord of the Rings, The Bible (for literary not religious reasons), Vonnegut, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Sartre, Kafka, Camus, Lovecraft, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams, Dune, His Dark Materials, Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, World War Z

Food:
I enjoy any food except black olives.

I actually do not like beer much...but I do like Guinness. And Vodka.

TV:
Lost, Twin Peaks, Dexter, Weeds, Six Feet Under, The Venture Bros., Dr. Who, The West Wing, The Daily Show

1. Music
2. Movies
3. Family
4. Good Dancing Shoes
5. Air
6. Pets

Potential, possibilities, what-ifs and quandaries.

Maybe at a club dancing.

Maybe seeing a movie.

Maybe playing poker with some friends.

Maybe at home by myself listening to music.

On a typical Saturday night I am usually here:
http://www.spellbound-dc.com/

I don't really have any deep, dark secrets...I'm pretty much an open book.

I guess the best I can come up with is that in high school I was really into professional wrestling & the singer Meatloaf...seriously...

You feel compelled to.

I don’t really have a “type.” I’m not necessarily attracted to a specific body type, hair color, etc. more than another. I need to find someone attractive to enter a romantic relationship (who doesn’t?) but “attractive” means different things for different people. However, some personality traits I look for in others are modesty, loyalty, independence and reliability.

Having your own car & being financially independent are also BIG plusses.

My AIM screenname is vernvonvoid if you you're feeling chatty...though I'm very rarely ever on there.

I'm pretty much up for talking to anyone and meeting nearly anyone, so don't be shy. Actually, I find shyness slightly sexy, so maybe you can be a little shy...just no need to hesitate to drop me a line and tell me about yourself. I'm much more likely to respond to actual messages than woos or icebreakers.