Quick note dear interchums, due to the wonders of the modern world in which we live I have an interpals app on my phone which means that I am perpetually online!

As such, please don't take offence if I'm slow to reply to your messages. Occasionally I may be a dreadfully negligent interpal in which case a stern word or torrent of abuse posted on my wall should be enough to garner a response!

With that out of the way normal service can continue:

Oh gosh, where do I begin?

To start with, my name is Adam (which the more observant amongst you may have noticed).

I've always loved coming into contact with people from diverse and exotic backgrounds far different from my own. I can also state that, while I am indeed straight, I have no issues talking with other guys on here (we're all human) because apparently there is more to Interpals than simply scouting out your next one night stand.

At least, that's the rumour I've heard.

It is probably worth saying that simply going on past experience I am far less likely to write to a fella simply because spending 5/10 minutes writing something to never get a reply 9 times out of 10 ain't particularly worthwhile in my own opinion.

So if you have a penis and you want to talk please feel free to write a message to me!

(Aren't I Machiavellian and shrewd?).

As for the rather irregular picture of me passed out on the floor getting hoovered? Wouldn't you know, I have a good story?! Please do ask me about it!

In terms of my justification for this nonconformist act I will only say that I feel one's display picture should express something about the person. Therefore whilst a low cut top showing lots of cleavage may garner more page views (maybe not!) I feel the image of me paralytic on the floor at a NYE party in the wilder days of my youth really does a good job of expressing my sense of fun and more generally indicates the sort entertainment I (intentionally or not) often end up providing for those who know me.

I will say that, due to such events, I very rarely drink now!

Are you any of the following?

Attractive
Intelligent
Witty
Entertaining

Then you need to get the heck off of interpals, there's enough fake profiles already.

I'm really more than happy to try (and being a Brit try really is the correct verb) and pick up any language in all honesty if you fancy helping me!

You poor considerate fools.

I've got all sorts of interests and hobbies which I don't wish to
ramble about too much so I'll just say briefly that, amongst other things, I love:

- Music
- Reading
- History
- Writing
- Talking
- Computer games
- Walking
- Aeroplanes
- Cycling

Clearly, there is much more but I find it easier to talk on the fly about things that interest me rather than to spew them all out in a text box.

Truthfully, I need something to spew out later!

In a past life (or at least a fair few years ago) I was lucky enough to get paid (not a lot!) to write about music. During this time my ears were really opened to the wonderful diversity of music that is out there.

I would like to say that I think I can appreciate music from a very wide variety of genres and periods. In my own opinion good music remains good music regardless of its age.

Previously I had a rambling list of my favourite artists and bands but I thought it might be better to just have a few select songs presented in YouTube format:









There are countless other songs I could share but this is just an attempt to indicate the range of my taste.

Unfortunately due to the increasingly bricked nature of interpals the embedded videos no longer seem to be working!

I don't even know where to begin, we can bring it up in conversation!

Ditto!

In terms of fiction I enjoy a good crime/mystery novel. Additionally I have a great appreciation for Stephen King!

More seriously my favourite novel is a work of Russian literature called Life and Fate written by a certain Vasily Grossman. I would adore the chance to tell you about it as it really changed my outlook on life.

However, my real passion is for works of non-fiction. I love a good book about a historical period or person!

More than that I love travel writing from the very old (Mark Twain, Dickens etc.) to the less old (Eric Newby) to the contemporary (Tim Parks, Michael Palin).

I think it's wonderful to go on a journey with such authors for a few hundred pages, whether into the past or the present, and to come out the other side with a broader appreciation for peoples and cultures apart from your own.

Such is time: everything passes, it alone remains; everything remains, it alone passes. And how swiftly and noiselessly it passes.
Vasily Grossman - Life & Fate

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake: the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
Christopher Hitchens

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge

Adventures do occur, but not punctually. Life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate.
E.M. Forster - A Passage to India

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte

As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to the building up of a vast array of wonderful church edifices, and starving half her citizens to accomplish it. She is today one vast museum of magnificence and misery. All the churches in an ordinary American city put together could hardly buy the jeweled frippery in one of her hundred cathedrals. And for every beggar in America, Italy can show a hundred - and rags and vermin to match. It is the wretchedest, princeliest land on earth.

Look at the grande Doumo of Florence - a vast pile that has been sapping the purses of her citizens for five hundred years, and is not nearly finished yet. Like all other men, I fell down and worshiped it, but when the filthy beggars swarmed around me the contrast was too striking, too suggestive, and I said. "Oh, sons of classic Italy, is the spirit of enterprise, of self-reliance, of noble endeavor, utterly dead within ye? Curse your indolent worthlessness, why don't you rob your church?
Mark Twain

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
Bob Dylan