The crucial things: Pale and interesting. Likes to talk, listen and have blazing rows over trivial yet crucial things. Like people's love of The Shawshank Redemption. I'm stupidly competitive, a terrible loser but I never cheat! I've played through Resident Evil 4 at least 15 times but can't beat it on pro - I always end up with no ammo when I have to fight Krauser on that feckin tower. Oh and I don't talk in the cinema but will share my pic'n'mix.
My specialist subject on Mastermind would be The X Files.

I'm an aspiring writer...so I work in retail while doing some film criticism on my days off. Last year I saw 108 films in the cinema so that's a pretty good indication of what I'm doing with my life.
I'm currently learning to tap dance. At the moment my left leg is rebellious.

Writing. Baking. Conversation. The missing vowels round in Only Connect.

Not entirely sure but I like to think I'm a pretty snappy dresser, so if I'm wearing my gold Chelsea boots then probably it's them. I've been told I've a good smile...I respectfully disagree. But it doesn't stop me doing it.

Books: My favourite author is Martin Amis, even though I wasn't a big fan of The Pregnant Widow. Virginia Woolfe. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Hunter S. Thompson. Thomas Hardy. Non fiction stuff like Bad Science by Ben Goldacre, Jon Ronson, Living Dolls by Natasha Walter. Lots basically. I didn't do history in school and like filling in my huge chasms of knowledge in all areas historical - if you have any recommendations? Oh and Sight and Sound magazine every month.

Movies: Ok then. Movies are the love of my life. They have kept me and continue to keep me sane, always there through the toughest of times. It's not just about explosions. All of it. But here's what I can think of this second. Vertigo, Halloween, The Exorcist, Eraserhead, It's A Wonderful Life, Withnail & I, All About Eve, All About My Mother, Harold and Maude, The Princess Bride, Taxi Driver, Midnight Cowboy, Mulholland Drive, Drive, Shivers, Don't Look Now, Rosemary's Baby, The Thing, Antichrist, All About Eve, Badlands, Bug, Cabaret, Fitzcarraldo, Gilda, ...if, On the Waterfront

Shows: The Wire, Twin Peaks, The X Files, The Twilight Zone, Deadwood, Freaks and Geeks, The Office, Brass Eye, Arrested Development, The Ricky Gervais Show, The IT Crowd, Misfits, The Inbetweeners, Seinfeld, The League of Gentlemen, Doctor Who, Firefly, Poirot...god I love David Suchet.

Music: The Smiths and Morrissey, Pulp, Dylan, Interpol, Joy Division, Aretha Franklin, 60's girl groups, Peggy Lee, Billy Bragg, Elvis, Buddy Hollly, Howlin Wolf, Dexys, Minutemen, Regina Spektor, Pavement, The Byrds, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Sonics, The Buzzcocks, Cat Stevens, Elbow, Gang of Four, Midlake, Grandaddy, Ian Dury, Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, Maximo Park, Peggy Lee, Roxy Music...much much more

Rogue category: Podcasts!! Frank Skinner on Absolute, Answer Me This, Sick and Wrong, Smodcast, Tell Em Steve Dave etc. LOTS

Food: I love food. And I think I'm not fussy until I list the things I hate - banana, beetroot, rhubarb, root veg, anything aniseed, porridge, sushi... Pretty much anything else I'm on board with.

iPod, Cineworld Unlimited card, pen and paper (does that count as one?), a little human interaction, coffee, diary (I have a head like a sieve)

I spend a lot of time staring into space thinking so maybe a selection from today: why has the fashion for having a spoken word section in a song gone? Trying to figure out if I really did do a theme park version of The Crystal Maze when I was young, or did I dream it? That David Cross show Todd Margaret was seriously disappointing...

more than likely watching a movie either at home or in the cinema. If I'm lucky having a couple of pints.

I'm on the verge of giving up on this whole dating business. It's exhausting isn't it??

you're interested and interesting and are actually willing to meet up! I love people who can introduce me to new ideas and tell me things I didn't know. If you want to watch a good film, eat some good food, drink some good beer or all of the above. If you don't think I sound like a total arse. I promise Im not.