Easily bored, even more easily amused, complicated, moody... and that's just my good side.

I am drawn to difficult, creative and charismatic women. If you're artistic and/or intellectual, I'll probably adore you. If you're warm and big-hearted, I'll be your most loyal friend. And if you're extremely good looking, I'll probably want to take photos of you all round London and elsewhere.

I'm currently completely into Cuban salsa and timba. If you want to know what timba is, here are a couple of recent examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9mwhkxraZc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpVaJjsEjIk

And I'm perhaps even more obsessed with writing. My guardian angel is Hubert Selby Jr. He sits on my shoulder and tells me not to waste time on things like this when I should be writing.

I'm looking for connection, to feel that intellectual, emotional and physical thrill of meeting a woman who can teach me as much as I have to give to her. I'm really looking for love, of course, but what intelligent person really expects to find it? So this is what we do in the meantime...

Finding out if I can be a writer

Writing, connecting people, abstraction, Cuban salsa, cooking, shopping for clothes with women I feel connected to, photography, being spontaneous... (hmm... "really good"?... at some of these!)

I'm more interested in people who create rather than consume creativity but I suppose these sorts of lists are how we create our identities, so here goes...

Books: The Subterraneans, American Tabloid, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Le salon du Wurtemberg (the book I'm reading in the photo), A la recherche du temps perdu, Les liaisons dangereuses, Le Père Goriot , Le roi des aulnes, The Alexandria Quartet, poems by Allen Ginsberg, Kim Addonizio, Rene Char...

Films: Jules et Jim, Le souffle au coeur, Volver, Sex and Lucia, La belle noiseuse, De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté, Naked, The Piano Teacher, Caché, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly...

Music: Fugazi, PJ Harvey, Michel Maza, NIN, Underworld, The Roots, Benjamin Biolay, Serge Gainsbourg, Maikel Blanco, Steve Reich, Autechre, CocoRosie...