I've been divorced for a little over two years and most of my time is spent taking care of my children and running my business. I'm looking for someone that's successful at what they do, somewhat artistic or at least somewhat expressive. I've found religion to been a touchy subject, so let me say that at best you could say I'm "spiritual" but really don't care for organized religion. Politically I lean left, sometimes siding with social liberals and sometimes siding with libertarians. If this gives you any clues as to my personality, here's a list of my likes:

Family Guy, Simpsons, Top Gear, David Lynch, Fight Club (wasn't supposed to talk about that one), Se7en, Audition, MST3K, soccer, hockey, tennis, 40 Sardines, Jackstack, Radiohead, Bright Eyes, Gorillaz, Nine Inch Nails, Travis, Orbital, Stereophonics, Kasabian, Bloc Party, Stephen Lynch, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Neil Gaiman, Crash, Dave McKean, dance clubs.

If you searched for any of the above, we'll probably get along just peachy keen. I'm very laid back and content, just looking for a partner to share some fun experiences and make that connection.

Also, no offense, but looks/photos are important. If I'm not interested, its probably nothing personal (maybe it is, maybe you killed my cat when I was younger). I do believe that you can look at someone and tell if you can have a relationship with that person. If I'm not interested, I just didn't make that connection with your photo.

First dates, at least to me, have always been like the first round of job interviews, mostly cold with both parties apprehensive, trying to determine whether the other is psychotic or a compulsive liar or worthy of trust. For some reason most women don't like to trade criminal background checks, college transcripts, resumes, toxicity screens, credit scores, F-JAS scores, Boy/Girl Scout merit badges, immunization records and two forms of picture identification. They prefer something more romantic, old-fashion, to intimidate the man I would imagine, so he can slip up and make a mistake. So I'll bite. I'll take you out to dinner, someplace nice, maybe with waiters even. I'll be clean and well groomed. I should be dressed, if I'm not please let me know. Hopefully over dinner, I'll be able to convince you that I'm not psychotic or a compulsive liar. I'll even pay for the meal! How about that, chivalry is not dead! I may tip, we'll see. Then the rest of the night depends on you. If I wasn't able to convince you that I'm just a normal guy, then you'll probably want me to take you home (or someone else's house, just so that the crazy guy you just went out with doesn't know where you really live). If you like to dance, we go dancing. Like music, we go out to hear jazz. Like movies, we'll find something playing. Like to shop, we go shopping. Like skydiving, we go shopping. We play it by ear and I hope for some kind of validation that there will be a second date. Then we can exchange all the paperwork.