I enjoy communicatin​g with varied and interesting societies around the globe, places which only a decade ago would have appeared exotic and unobtainable​ but are now closer with this e-mail thing.

I have an ambition to finish reading War and Peace and Moby Dick without going insane.  I also have a near phobic fear of CCTV cameras.  I mean, I may be looked at by hundreds of people every day without my knowing, but cameras are ju-ju magic which would steal my soul.

I believe that sweetbreads are a vastly under-rated food.

Six series of Homicide: Life on the Street and 80% of the complete The Wire have brought me to love and grieve for Baltimore like an abused sister.

Evidently, I am not the fascist bunny from Efrafa Warren.  If you're desperate to know more, I can oblige but will retain anonymity on public access.

"Friend"​ means much more than "someon​e you know on the Internet"​, so my adding Interpals users doesn't come cheap.  Please do not add me without having first chatted.  Likewise, if you bookmark me, please at least make your profile visible (you know who you are).

Looking for male or female contacts, upwards of 20s. Level headed and not interested in becoming blind-drunk each week.  Most political stripes are welcome - neo-conserva​tives, classical Liberals, members of the new puritan Left - but expect disagreement​s on politics!  Alternativel​y, we could simply discuss gossipy matters.

I'm looking just to speak to varied and interesting societies abroad. To have stimulating conversation​s, with a dash of paprika. I am open to e-mail and particularly​ amenable to snail mail.

Also, please no money requests (not even if it's to give to me, as there will be bound to be a catch) or religious-st​uff.  I'm not receptive to users whose profile piccie is blank (at least put in *something* about yourself) or of a sultry-looki​ng woman blowing a kiss (yeah, there may be some Internet users so oversexed that they would seek out 10 pixel wide images from Google Maps of sunbathers, but you ain't speaking to one here).

And I most certainly do *not* respond to prospective e-mails which include their e-mail address, or start with "hello dear, har (sic.) are your family?"​.

I am brutal and, if I suspect you are scamming, I *will* flag your profile for Moderator attention.  I ain't had one miss-fire yet.

Mouse badminton; guinea pig tennis; kitten juggling; gerbil snooker; puppy cricket; tortoise frisbee.  Arguing that the destruction of the Death Star in Return of the Jedi was a war-crime and act of genocide.

Where to start?  Anouar Brahem; Jan Garbarek; Tomasz Stanko; Monteverde; Palestrina; Jordi Savall; Brahms; Tchaikovsky;​ Rachmaninov;​ Ella Fitzgerald; Duke Ellington; Captain Beefheart; Sons and Daughters; Mike Batt.

Can I choose more later?

Films, they're called films!  Lots.  Tarkovsky's good.

Numb3rs, The Wire, Engrenages, The Shield... something with an ethnic mafia.  The Wire, did I mention that before?  Well, it's worth a second mention.

Are those things with pages and funny squiggles?  Postman Pat and the Armed Robbery was good.

Okay, movies/films​ is a personal preference, but a quote is something your builder gives.  Quotations are:

... never trust a man who, if left alone in a room with a tea cosy, does not try it on.

... sometimes you need a clockwork cat to catch clockwork mice.

... I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, consider that you may be mistaken!

... come back, they're only dogs!

... when I was a child I spoke as a liberal I understood as a liberal, I thought as a liberal; but when I became a man I put away childish things and became a Liberal.

... between the desire, and the spasm, between the potency, and the existence, between the essence, and the descent, falls the Shadow.

... chain of command, McNulty.  Chain of command.