Hi!
I'm a working classical musician, This is not a hobby or an escape hatch, it's what I do for money. If you're truly okay with that, it's a great start.

I'm not easy-going. laid back nor drama free. That's a good thing. I live every day as if it were my last and appreciate the same in others.

Worth mentioning: I'm a non-driver, due only to the fact of living with low vision. Where the subway or Continental Air doesn't go, I don't, either. Being visually impaired means that I map out everyplace I go and have to plan most everything. Other than that, I'm up for most anything, other than playing tennis or darts.

Boys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses. So, where are you?

Staying awake.

Leisure reading includes almost 100% non-fiction, mostly classics, poetry and historical biography. Milton, Yeats, Frost, Whitman, George Sand, Thomas, and current favorite, Wilde. I love sci-fi film, especially dystopic-paradox stories or low-budget. Horror, too. I don't own a TV and suspect there is very little worth watching since Buffy quit slaying vampires. Food I love includes most anything (extra-spicy, please) except Japanese and Indian.

I'm ambidextrous. But never confused.

First, PLEASE BE UNDER the age of 57. 47 is fine, even 37 if you can still write in cursive and voted in the 1990s +/-. I prefer to spend time with people who are young enough to still jump out of planes, if and when they feel so inclined. I don't and never have clicked with older men.

I HAVE ISSUES:
It'd be nice if you're presentable and don't look like you just rolled off a potato truck. My outward preferences are never what people expect of me - I love hipsters, medical geeks, librarian-chic and hair-band leftovers. It's all good, so long as you wear it well and with pride. Taking the time to actually post a photo without a baseball cap and an undershirt IS worth the effort - really! Wearing coveralls, space shoes, bizarre broken eyeglasses and lacking teeth are turnoffs, even if you think they're hot. That strip of hair that you're growing doesn't hide the fact that you might be BALD, so just shave it all and get on with the 21st century. If you own a green polyester suit, are vitamin D deficient from lack of sunlight, drool and/or drag your knuckles, you're pretty much disqualified.

PLUSES ARE EASY:
There's nothing better than a genuine, humble and happy personality with some edgy wit and common sense intact. Just say HI and type some more. I'm conscientious to the point where I'll respond to those who are articulate and non-hostile. Actions speak louder than words, so do both.

Giving out my phone number is something of an invasion of privacy. I generally don't answer it, anyway.

Extra-speedy replies go to those who don't submit form letters pontificating what a nice, laid-back guy you are who enjoys walks on the beach in the rain at sunset after their busy day moonlighting as a neurosurgeon with a yacht. Unless, of course, you do.