I am clever, likeable, and unconventional.
My Self-Summary
I am an outgoing and friendly person, I can be quiet (but not shy),
I'm optimistic and light, easy company. But don't be fooled by my
light and relaxed exterior. Inside that is a complex mess of deep
thought and a seeker after truth.
I love cinema, the theatre, literature, art, photography; not so
keen on music, despite the fact that I used to be a musician, what
can I say, I'm a mass of contradictions.
I also love learning, just for its own sake. I'm always teaching
myself something new. Right now I'm learning Arabic and salsa
dancing. But I have a very short attention span. I get really
excited about a subject for a few months or a year, and then I get
bored and never look at it again. This means that I'm a jack of all
trades and master of none. I know the rudiments of a hundred
subjects, but I'm not really very good at anything.
Socialising - I'm a pub person, not fond of clubs, because I think
the point of socialising is conversation, and nightclubs are the
natural enemy of conversation (I've always thought it odd that
clubs are where you go to meet new people, while at the same time
being the worst possible place to meet people). I also like pubs
because they sell beer, which I've always been very fond of. Also
up for any kind of party, particularly if it involves dressing up,
or acting in a theatrical way.
I'm basically an aesthete (man, that sounds pretentious now that
I've written it down!) I always search for and recognise beauty in
all things, art, music, literature, but mostly just in the world
around me. I'm surprised that most other people don't appear to do
this. Maybe they do, but they certainly appear not to.
What else? Well I guess I'm a bit of a loner. I don't like to rely
on anyone except myself. It's probably this fierce independence
that has kept me single to this ripe old age. Again though I'm
contrary, because at the same time I'm highly sociable and I love
people, particularly clever funny people who don't take themselves
or life in general too seriously.
What I’m doing with my life
I have a proper grown up job.
I’m really good at
Drawing naked people - I spent a long time trying to make my way as
an artist, but eventually I had to get a day job. I can still dream
though (both of being an artist and of naked people).
I'm also really good at helping people to get drunk.
The first things people usually notice about me
my thick Welsh accent.
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
a) I mostly like mid 20th century literature, both American and
British, but I just love to read from all genres and periods.
b) My 57 favourite films, in no particular order are - Heavenly
Creatures, The Deer Hunter, Life is Beautiful, Annie Hall, Crash,
Jacob's Ladder, Reservoir Dogs, 2001, Gaslight, Red Dust, Bob
Roberts, Falling Down, Festen, Goodfellas, Kes, Secrets and Lies,
Sunrise, Monsters Ball, Schindler's List, Alien, Paths of Glory,
Koyaanisqatsi, Dancer in the Dark, Logan's Run, Brief Encounter,
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Brazil, Evil Dead II, Aliens, The
Omen, Silence of the Lambs, All Quiet on the Western Front, Sitcom,
Faust, Withnail and I, Harold and Maud, The Sunshine Boys, Fight
Club, Play it Again Sam, Cabaret, Spirited Away, One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest, The Wall, Secretary, Flash Gordon, The Hill, Ice
Cold in Alex, Rashomon, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, M*A*S*H, Deep
Impact, Bugsy Malone, What's Up Doc?, Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind, Ed Wood, Rosemary's Baby, Whose Afarid of Virginia
Woolfe?
c) I'm having a bit of a music crisis. My collection is full of
punk rock and heavy metal, but I've kind of out-grown it. I've been
experimenting with classical, but it's not for me. These days I
mostly listen to solo female artists in a jazzy style. And there's
always been Bob Dylan and Neil Young, who have never let me
down.
d) food? not fussy.
The six things I could never do without
1) having female friends, I don't necessarily mean girlfriends,
I've just always preferred women to men as company. 2) beer, I love
beer, it's great. 3) some sort of drawing implement, I'd go nuts if
my compulsive urge to doodle was denied me. 4) daydreaming, my main
hobby. 5) BBC Radio Four, an oasis of intelligence in a desert of
ignorance. 6) since I've got one left, I guess I'll have another
beer.
I spend a lot of time thinking about
art, sex, myself, fun, women, my job, poetry, money, fantasies,
friendship, beauty, ecology, psychology, music, history, physics,
mythology, aesthetics, food, movies, health, the future,
relationships, politics, science, technology, life ...you know
......stuff.
On a typical Friday night I am
In my local.
The most private thing I’m willing to admit here
I talk to myself in the mirror like Travis Bickle.
You should message me if
you feel like messaging me - please go ahead, I don't bite (but I'm
a fast learner).