I suppose you could call me "Gothic" but I'm not exactly a Goth. Not as such. Well, a bit. Maybe. I don't really do the club thing any more. I am most certainly not "hip", "indie", "alterna-" or anything like that.

I have a weird, nerdy (but not "geek-chic") side. I read reference books for fun, and when I get interested in things it's always in far too much detail - and I'm interested in nearly everything. I enjoy making things, photography, literature, painting, sculpture, music. I'm not outdoorsy, although I like a quiet walk. I like animals, but not being overrun by them.

While I'm enthusiastic about many things, I'm also an enthusiastic hater of many things. I keep a blog that you may or may not find amusing and/or offensive. I'm not that angry in real life, don't worry. It's all in fun and cheerful spite. Yes, I do have an almost apocalyptically dim, Hobbesian view of nearly everything, but I laugh at it, see? The easily-offended need not apply.

I'm also the proverbial mine of useless information. Although since arriving in Australia, my scores have reduced somewhat due to the rather parochial nature of quizzes here.

I'll admit I'm looking for love, but I'm not in any rush and don't have many friends in Sydney and so just making some new acquaintances would be great.

I'm sort of starting from scratch after immigrating with nothing, but I'm enjoying myself in glorious Sydney and doing what I would define as pretty well.

Job? I trained as a designer but ended up as a writer. Well, a copywriter (it still counts). Although my new job has me designing again, so yay me.

Long term plans are the usual: saving up for a deposit on a little home of my own. Sadly, my African money didn't exactly go very far in the Australian property market. I am fairly conservative with the cash (read: thrifty, not cheap), although I've treated myself to the basics (you'll laugh at my TV...) in my first year in my new homeland.

I'm a professional writer, so I might be a good one. I used to be a professional designer, so I was probably good at that at one stage. I like making things and fixing things. I'm an insatiable devourer and retainer of trivia. I'm excellent at sleeping in. I'm also good at making jokes that I have to explain and subsequently kill.

Example: Did you hear that Herbert von Karajan has been cryogenically preserved? That's right, he's a superconductor.

If you don't get it, well, that's normal. If you do get that, then you'll understand why I'm single. If you laughed, then we'd probably better marry.

It should be obvious, I think, but here's some stuff not in the pics.

I'm softly spoken, and no-one can place my accent.

I have weirdly long canines (bottom and top jaws) and weirdly long fingers. I have inadvertently (I swear) made small children cry and run away.

I'm very shy and awkward (painfully, excruciatingly shy), but I'm told I appear haughty and intimidating. Which really isn't the case.

My taste tends toward the dark or at least darkly funny, but I do enjoy mindless escapism. I can appreciate highbrow stuff in the required way, but I'm not a snob as such. I certainly dislike stuff, but I simply dislike bad entertainment. I'm not really aware of many of the latest bands, fashions or TV shows and I don't really care, or try to keep up.

Favorite Movies

Blade Runner,Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, Brazil, Dazed & Confused, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Ladyhawke, The Iron Giant, Ghost in the Shell, Wallace & Gromit, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Die Hard Movies, The Last Boy Scout, Grosse Point Blank, The Unbelievable Truth, Outland, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, The Incredibles, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, E.T., Short Cuts, Secretary

Favorite Music

Swans, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Tom Waits, Scott Walker, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, My Bloody Valentine, Gustav Mahler, Franz Schubert, Joy Division, The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, Bethany Curve, Diamanda Galás, PJ Harvey, a-ha, Lush, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Third Eye Foundation, The Birthday Party, Arvo Pårt, Coil, Test Dept., Godflesh, Antony & The Johnsons, Ludwig van Beethoven, The Arcade Fire, David Bowie, Curve.

Favorite Books

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson, Neuromancer - William Gibson, The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien, The Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake, A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole, The Discworld Novels - Terry Pratchett, The Stranger - Albert Camus, Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift, Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll, The Church Mice Books - Graham Oakley

I can't live without my music, a net connection, a bottle of Scotch, my action figures, sunblock and pepper steak pies.

I really like to think about things I can make, but mostly I think about the utter futility of human existence. And naked girls. Not the utter futility of naked girls, just them sort of dancing around. In the nude.

Also, I love miniature versions of things, so I'm often thinking "how can I make that in 1:6 scale?"

Either at a friend's house or at home, playing games or watching films. I'm not a huge fan of "partying" and I'm not fond of crowds and noise. I've finally outgrown clubbing, thank Satan.

Well, I'm not having much success with the whole OkCupid thing, so instead of listing my positive qualities, I'll give a list of all the bad ones. If you can stand me after reading this, please shoot me a message.

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• I am embarrassingly, problematically socially awkward.
• My entire (large) wardrobe consists of variations of the same (black) outfit.
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• I wear hats. I have black hats for different occasions.
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• I have a lethally morbid, ranty sense of humour, which is often misconstrued as dour seriousness.
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• I'm fairly bright, cultured and sophisticated, but I'm really just a big kid who wants to stay in his room playing with his toys and watching escapist junk.
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• I have a worryingly large collection of toys.
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• I can get completely lost reading Wikipedia articles about anything from science to history to fictional characters.
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• I'm a Blu-ray evangelist and the type of persnickety audiophile who complains at length about compression in remastering practices.
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• I'm a an unflagging cynic, pessimist, curmudgeon and misanthrope who likes to watch cat videos and go to petting zoos.
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• I'm a total nerd, but not in the ironic fashion and chunky glasses sense.
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• I am unhip, and noticeable hipness in others mildly irritates me.
  
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• I'm a homebody and a wallflower. I enjoy parties, but seldom speak to people unless they speak to me first.
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• I don't hate myself, but I think that it's understandable or even likely that other people might.
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• I'm quite happy doing nothing more exciting than alphabetising things and tidying around the house.
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• I like a picnic and afternoon's walk, but I don't do extended outdoorsy stuff.
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• My political views are hateful in that I generally hate people with political views.

You think people who write "I love having fun" in their profiles should be shot. I mean, duh.

Your OkCupid profile name doesn't end in "-4U"

You like chatting at length and in lurid detail about the minutiae of day-to-day life, with a slight tendency to fixate on the unmentionable.

You do not subscribe to any particular -ism. Oh, except maybe intactivism. I'm a bit of a stickler about that, actually.

You can laugh at my utterly bleak world view. I laugh at it.

You're looking for someone to make friends with and explore the city, watch the occasional movie maybe some good animé, to sit in the park and have a picnic, eat pizza and generally goof off.

You're quiet, funny, or intelligent. Actually, I'm afraid intelligence is a prerequisite.

You're a bookish person who forgets to go outside.

You don't really care what other people think about you doing the things that interest you.

You'd like to meet a man who can harp rhapsodic about girls with unshaved armpits. That means I can and sometimes, in fact, do.

You hate conspicuous consumerism and fashion.

You think I'm pretty.