Lovetastic: dating for gay men who believe in love

I'm a guy who likes the ocean. I like to walk along the beach reciting Shelley, Keats, Byron, Emily Dickinson, or even T.S. Elliot's Lovesong of Alfred J. Prufrock. I aspire to be the greatest living American Novelist, but in my doldrums which I currently inhabit having that business of having to make a living, I tend to do more graphic designer/presentation type work. I've written a bevy of articles and my first mystery novel, but I'm still shooting for that a number one pubisher. I enjoy a good party and club life (ala National Arts, Century and the like). I'm good at parties, throwing, giving, going. I love art, art galleries and crudite, wine, those finer things. Not really a cigar smoker, I'll have the brandy in those quiet drawing rooms of life. But with the right person, I can be on a lonely subway platform in Coney Island and be equally in bliss. I'm not really about things. I have a lot of junk, a stuffed ram's head I like to call "bert" hanging on the wall in my "library" (a room cluttered with classics and the quintessential globe bar). I'm a preppie type. I have a fairly good body, although a few sit ups maybe in my future. My hair is thinning on top, but the guys still come around. It's probably my manner, I'm very complicated and multi-layered. I come across as a "push-over" but I'm not. I truly am an aries. I am driven and passionate. I don't mind crying at a good movie. I love to be in the house and out side the house and in the car motoring along. I love a good road trip and french fries with gravy and miles and miles of coffee. I love hugs and intimacy. I write music, play the keyboard and piano a bit, like a good tennis match, enjoy a museum, love Central park, every season -especially the conservatory gardens. Mostly what I'd like is a little respect. I have odd notions about things. I think way outside the box, it's my creative nature. But when I love, I love completely and totally. I like animals and small children. I like the Episcopal Mass, but I've been to a few satres I wouldn't give up for all the world. I know the right guy is out there. I just haven't been able to meet him in the bars. Sure I meet the right type, but all they seem to want is a hurried tumble and a shy goodbye. And that isn't me, not anymore. I'm looking for substance in my life. Someone solid and steady who isn't afraid to say they care. I like going out and doing things, but more than this I love sharing life with someone else. I do charity work from time to time, helping out at a church function or going to see my dear old Auntie on the upper east side and maybe spending a few hours talking with her about England or walking her poodle with her and having some tea or a horse's neck. I am a true creative, an artist, and I am never dull. If you want some real verve in your life, I'm something to write home about. And I guess I get along best with Leos and Sagitariuses.

Light in August by William Faulkner. Dry by Augusten Burroughs, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway. Oxford Dictionary

I celebrate all month. The entire month. I like a cake and friends and a party. I like a nice dinner out at a romantic place. Doesn't have to be expensive. But I definately want thought put into it. I like presents. Again, they do not have to be expensive, but thoughtful. In the past my friends have taken me to dinner and the theatre, to Seattle, to Pittsburgh for Warhol's museum, on a boat ride in the moon light, a former boyfriend cooked me my favorite dinner very badly - it was the best meal I ever had!, I love romance and usually will spend my actual birthday with my true love. Sometimes it's a road trip to nowhere or just a long walk alone. I like to spend that day with the one I love. It doesn't matter where we are, but parties and fussing definately get points.

The Sun also rises, (Ernest Hemmingway)Less Than Zero (Brett Easton Ellis), Light in August, (William Faulkner), Anything by Tennessee Williams, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Beautiful and the Damned (by F. Scott Fitzgerald), Breakfast At Tiffany's (Truman Capote), On The Road, (by Jack Kerouac), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, (by Phillip K. Dick), War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

Poe, Haunted, anything by Aimee Mann, Tori Amos, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, Chet Baker, Eel, The Cure, The Smiths, The Charlatans, Travis, Depeche Mode, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Annie Lennox, Hank Williams Jr., Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting, any of The Standards, Icicle works, Suzanne Vega, - Tom's Diner, cowboy junkies, the magnetic fields, polyphonic spree, ani difranco, chemical brothers, dido/eminem's version of that song, old college radio (the 90's), some house music, some industrial, queen latifah's song "the queen has had it up to here", mostly college radio and jazz.

heathers, less than zero, the man who came to dinner, it happened one night, topper, breakfast at tiffany's, vanilla sky, magnolia, big fish, suddenly last summer, all about eve, reservoir dogs, my cousin vinny, the poseidon adventure, mission impossible 1,2,3, the italian job (all versions), 24 hours, my own private idaho, the cook, the thief, his wife and her lover, fried green tomatoes, my best friend's wedding, as good as it gets, prizzis honor, hannah and her sisters, orlando.

Monet, Renoir, John Singer Sargent, Peter Max, Warburg, Keane, isa genzken, a painting of Johachim Winkelman that hangs in the european section of the met, chagall - his windows in particular, a few pieces I bought that are hanging on my walls, most of what hangs in the MOMA (e.g. The hands of time)

The idea that you can acutally meet and find true love on this site. The idea that you can create a website and make a million dollars and give it away to a very good charity and then make another website. Ihave an idea for an Art farm wherein I could bring inner city youth to the country and teach them about art and then have great galas painting green and white bottles and call the festival a thousand bottles and auction them off and raise money to keep the art farm going, filled with music and sunlight and fresh air and getting people out of the box and the caste that society sticks them into.

writing writing writing, music, good food, good wine, and love. Gardening, swimming swimming in lakes and oceans and hikes and traveling the world and fixing up big old houses (yes I can do that) and cooking hot cakes on old coal or wooden stoves in places like vermont and skiing and having dogs and cats and overstuffed wicker benches on creaky old porches with trees and swings, and of course Manhattan Penthouse Starlight - there's nothing like it, and having those "theme" parties where everyone dresses up and has a swelligant time. I'm that guy.