I realized recently that although sites like these pool people together with the common goal of dating, my personal experience is this: people I meet in everyday interactions or social gatherings dwarfs the number of people I meet on this here, cleverly designed network. In fairness, my particular preferences cut out %50 of the population at first click but numbers aside, the experience of spontaneous interaction in the world of senses is inherently better. We learn more from knowing how someone says something than we do from knowing what they said.
Cliche? Yes. True? Also, yes.
I think there's much to be said for the chemistry of personal, screen-less interaction. To say I "realized" this may be misleading... I think most already grasp the concept that "life" is better (or at very, very least - more real) than "simulated life" and websites like these are constrained by that basic truth. People are here for different reasons: time constraints, shyness, the gnawing doubt that anybody, "gets" them. I am none of those, so...

So why not just delete this trite-by-nature snippet of screen personality, then? Am I really going to fall hard for someone because they read the same book as me? Will I race the fastest of metronomes with the beat of my love-struck heart because someone, "likes Indian food," too? No. But a profile with a lot of style and personality is usually indicative of a person with a big juicy brain and I am a zombie, so it's a start... Indian food or not. Curry and brains, you know?

The site, to me, seems to match wits evenly with bars or clubs. Places that exists, ostensibly to encourage social interaction; all the tools are present, anyway. But the goal falls short somewhere between the conversation-less thumping of the stereo, the numbing fluids or in this case, the fact that an intermediary is being used. One might realize, all things permitting, that a game of frisbee in the park or a potluck with strangers is a much better way to get to know people. Again, you ask, "Ok, ass. Delete your profile then." And I say, "That was a statement, not a question and I've already written all this, so it stays."

Plus, I love meeting people and any avenue for that, no matter how paradoxically unproductive it may be, is valid and good. So it stays.

Also, I'm a Disney baby who, after years of indoctrinating love stories still harbors the belief (somewhere deep in the subconscious of my genie lamp) that it's possible to meet someone you dig so much you want to spend your life doing things with them. So it stays.

About me:
I'm diverse.
I'm always working on something.
I dig on music.
I live for stimulation in all it's variety.
I find education stimulating.
I have fun with almost everyone.
I channel anger into production.
I have strong beliefs about not having strong beliefs, but believe strongly that people should have beliefs....
I DO NOT like people exercising power over me. So I go crazy in entry level jobs and either take over or quit. I've done both.
Also, I hate traditional school.
I'd like to be a masseuse and a fireman someday.
I was almost one and am frequently the other...
My love is free, my trust is earned.
I love people, yes you, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Hakuna Matata.

I play in a really entertaining band.
I juggle things.
I'm trying to unicycle.
I'm learning sign language.
I ride my bike a lot and take trips on my motorcycle.
I read, I teach, I perform, I fix things.
I get a kick out of inspiring kids.
I like telling stories, and hearing them too.
I didn't until recently, but I love driving... fast.

Financially useless, entertaining, dangerous and creative things. I'm a great teacher and I like that kids enjoy my presence.

I've never asked, but I have a lot of piercings and a long chin-beard.

I just built a library, my tastes flow with my mood, age, experience. For conversations sake:

Music is endless: I dig on everything from Chick Corea and Count B to Glassjaw and BTBAM with a little Elger and Bach in between. Bright Eyes reminds me of Hank Williams and modern hip-hop reminds me of square dancing. Generally the only music I can't get into is stuff that talks about the need for things ie:wealth, women, men, what-have-you. Music to me is an avenue for expression not a Christmas list.

Books: This summer I read: Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sedaris), Travels with Charlie (Steinbeck baby, kindred spirits we are), Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce), Dune (Herbert), The Genealogy of Morals (Nietzsche) and some short works by Tom Robbins and David Foster Wallace.
One of my all-time favorites: The Autobiography of Woodie Guthrie

Movies: Documentaries. Campy Horror. Chess with Death (The Seventh Seal). David Lynch. Wes Anderson.

Food: I've been cooking indian food lately. I'll eat most anything, though I usually go meatless. Love making breads. If you like to cook and aren't stuck in some lame 50's gender role complex about men cooking, LET"S COOK!

I'd just be a smart ass and list water and what-not.

Whatever I'm working on.

Playing shows, being social.

I live with my family. For some reason that's supposed to be a bad thing in our society which I think is bologny. Your family spends all that time and care raising you and then you're just supposed to peace out on them? Nonsense. But, for some reason when I show pride in my living situation, people look at me like I've just admitted lung cancer from chain smoking. I've lived all over and that was fun too, but I love my family. I feel bad for people who only know their families while they're being raised or while they're discussing retirement homes. These are the good years, friends! Know your families!

Also, the best conversation I've ever had... ever, was with a bunch of 3-5th graders on the way to a recording studio discussing the Vietnam War. Some top-notch kids in this fine city. You can try and beat it, but... I wouldn't place any bets.

You agree.