Random Wonderings...

[the_gneech]

I'm still trying to find a hairstyle I like. I wonder how I'd look with a Hugh Grantish "taper cut?"

I know for a fact that I look awful with short hair, so that idea is right out. Plus, I'm just plain sick of seeing men with nothing but short hair everywhere. When Tom "Somebody Kick Me In the Groin, Please" Cruise is considered to have long hair, you know the culture has really fallen into a low, in terms of coiffure.

There are guys who look better with short hair, don't get me wrong. My brother looks much better with short hair than with long, for instance. But variety, people, please! There are currently a grand total of about four men's haircuts: bald, crewcut-with-little-tuft, really short all over, or really short on the back and sides with a tiny bit more on top. That's it! Any of us walking around with more than 1" of hair anywhere on our heads are freaks, very few and far between.

It's not that I want to go back to the '70s, either, far from it. I want some guys to have short hair, some to have medium, and some to have long.

My one big fear with trying out the taper cut, is that if I don't like it, I have to spend two years growing my mane back again, which gets tiresome. At the same time, the long hair is kind of a pain in Kung Fu class and severely restrics my choice of hats. I have a black cap similar to the one Arthur wears in NeverNever, but I can't wear it while my hair is long, 'cause it makes me look like Art Garfunkel -- PUKE!

Well, for the time being, I continue to ponder. I'm open to suggestions!

-The Gneech

Comments

[makovette.livejournal.com]

I pissed off the evil wizard Rogain trying to date his daughter and, well, the horror of it all...

Mako
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[level-head.livejournal.com]

Ah, you've got no problems in that regard. As I lose it, I will wind up with a style similar to that of your basic ceramic fixture--sort of a "Hair to the Throne" effect, perhaps.

The Gneech has an unusual and celebrated and attractive hair color. I'd suggest keeping it long. The more, the h/a/i/r/i/e/r/ merrier.

Hairbands, clips and other management techniques for sparring will be appropriate in some circumstances, and anyone with an inch of hair or more is at some potential disadvantage in combat. But this way, he keeps all his options open; he can stuff his hair up under his famous hat when he feels like it.

And the sign said
"Long-haired freaky people
Need not apply."
So I stuffed my hair
Up under my hat
And I went in to ask him why.

He said "You look like a fine upstanding young man
I think you'll do."
So I took of my hat and said "Imagine that!
Me -- working for you!"

While society has changed much since the Five Man Electrical Band recorded "Signs", the technique might still be useful from time to time. ];-)

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[jim-lane.livejournal.com]

I agree with you, in that big men with thick, red hair should wear it LONG and (with the beard) FULL. Always thought the "Red Beard the Pirate" (Black Beard's bastard brother) and/or the "Eric the Red" look was very cool.

Years ago I had a few red beard/mustache hairs...but now that color's gone away, leaving only gray.

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[level-head.livejournal.com]

You've always sturck me as exceedingly well-red.

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