Hello to all you out there in cyber-space! I enjoy gaming (MMORPGS,tabletop, and video games),watching baseball games (GO MARINERS and D-Backs!) and all sorts of intellectual pursuits.

To learn more about me, my livejournal is at
http://www.livejournal.com/users/sandpapertiger/

To IM me, I am on both AIM and YIM as Esspiti

*update* People, if you get a message from me, the LEAST you can do is say "Thank you for noticing me and finding me interesting". I go out on a limb when I try to make new friends and (gods forbid) dates! with you. I may not be the best catch available (and if you meet them, I'd like their profile name, please - so I know who I need to stack up against...) but fercryin'outloud, it is polite to ACTUALLY REPLY to people. Even if it is just to say 'no thanks'. Common courteousy should not go the way of the dodo and the LP, if you ask me. No one has, but if they did, then I would chew their ear for hours and hours about how people just appear to have no manners anymore, what with the telephone and the internet and text messaging *killing* out ability to communicate our thoughts and emotions.

/rant off.

I am looking to make friends and pen-pals.

Gaming (challenge me to a match at UT2K4!), occasionally singing (we should Karaoke sometime!) and intellectual pursuits of all stripes. I am also good at giving massages, making friends with animals, making friends with Humans, and staying out of trouble.

I have also had no complaints in the bedroom from either gender (*evil grin*)

I am bad at housework (usually), keeping things to myself, and eating things before others in my household do (*grr*)

My attitude (usually positive), my eyes, my intellect.

The first thing I notice about others is their eyes, then their shoes.

A:
Any short story by Harlan Ellison, most Phillip K. Dick, the Discworld novels, the Amber series and sundry other Roger Zelazny, Flowers For Algernon,Neal Stephenson, Chuck Palhaniuk, the Star Wars novels in moderation, too many others books & stories to mention. Also And The Ass Saw The Angel by Nick Cave and Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen. UPDATE: I am a new convert to the stories of Steven Hunter (Blacklight, Time To Hunt). That man can WRITE!

B:
Secretary, Clerks, Quentin Tarrantino's canon, Blade Runner, Terry Gilliam's films (Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Twelve Monkeys), Monty Python films, the weird David filmmakers (Cronenberg and Lynch), Tetsuo:The Iron Man, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, various other anime, the films of Hayo Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and all the others I own), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, Shaun of the Dead Spider-Man 3, Tampopo, A Taxing Woman, The Funeral, Eat Drink Man Woman, Shooter, Baby Snakes, 200 Motels; many MANY more!

C:
This Mortal Coil, the Pixies, NIN, Mozart, Audioslave,Beehtoven, Stravinsky, Frank Zappa, Dead Kennedys, Portishead, Massive Attack, Morcheeba, The Beatles, Andrew Lloyd Weber musical soundtracks (Especially Phantom of the Opera), RHPS soundtrack, other soundtracks from films that I enjoy (Lost Highway, Natural Born Killers, Tomb Raider, Lost In Space, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Nightmare Before Christmas...) Avenue Q soundtrack, Disturbed, Mudvayne, Godsmack, Nirvana, System of a Down, the Killers, Franz Ferdinand, the Dresden Dolls, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Harvey Danger, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Psychedalic Furs, Violent Femmes, Einstruzunde Neubaten,Skinny Puppy, Download. (I am a child of the 80's-90's, and I mostly like 'alternative' music from that time frame). If you see anything not on this list, if it is not new country or rap/R&B I probably like it - just ask me!

D:
Asian foods of all stripes, cheesecake, chocolate pie, sushi, Middle-Eastern/Mediterranean foods

1.) My Sanity
2.) My son
3.) My friends & extended family
4.) My PC
5.) My intellect
6.) My five senses

Quantum mechanics, the nature of existence, food & drink, intellectual pursuits of all sorts... gaming.
I spend a lot of time THINKING, so if you do not, we probably will not get along so well.

...alive. I have no typical nights of any sort, Friday or otherwise.

My 'Theme Song' when I am out walking is the Overture from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.

You want conversation and friendship that will (hopefully) knock your socks off!

You want to get to know a great guy who is compassionate, generous and self-sacrificing.

You know who Frank Zappa is, and do not hate his music and films.