April 2, 2011
dear clusterflock
My hair: red as it ever was, but I’ve been urging Kristine to get more creative with the cut. Now it’s a kind of asymmetrical cross between Millie Small’s 1964 ‘do and James Brown’s 1985 coiffure.
Do you use your hair (or have you used it) as a playground for your evolving self?
Any other part of your person?
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It’s just hair, it grows back. I’ve shorn it all off and had it incredibly long. I don’t tie too much of my identity up in it, it seems a frivolous thing to care about.
Oh, I don’t take it that seriously. But sometimes I like to let it lead the way. And grow into it.
I guess I was more thinking of people I know who seem very attached to their hair, see it as a real source of pride. It just seems like a fun thing to me.
I found out last year that my whole life I’d been mixing up James Taylor and James Brown
I only even really figured out what James Taylor looks like when I watched ‘Funny People’.
I have in the past cut off all my hair in an attempt to hide. Hair can be, after all, distinguishing plumage.
I just let it grow and then have it cut.
I am very self concious, so, have never knowingly used any part of me as a playground for experimentation. Most of my life I feel like I have tried to hide.
My hair has been 2 feet long and less than an inch long. Curly and straight. I find I’m pretty much me, regardless of my hair.
After Daryl lost all of his hair to cancer, it grew in curly for a time. That was interesting.
I often ponder mine going white following a scare.
Sheila: where are pics at? I’m exactly like you; my hair is a barometer of life change. I realized over the weekend that now that I don’t have a “real” job and am running my own entertainment-industry concern, I can pretty much go nuts and really edgy it up. And I might just! Would love to see yours for inspiration.
Andrea, I’ll email you some pics. Not as crazy as some of the coiffures of my youth, but I don’t think I’ll be mistaken for a soccer mom.
Chicken
I’ve had the same haircut for 16 years (done by myself, no guard clippers). If I let it grow, think I’d be scared? (The fringe grey. I could do a Jack Nicholson/Karl Lagerfeld pigtail in the back. Too Eighties, you think?) The look not quite ready to make a come-back?
Take a year off, Rick, and let’s see what happens.
I’m not afraid to be avante-garde.
Sheila, it’s the transition I fear.
And we love you for that.
The fearlessness, I mean.
I’m tired of looking like my grandfather, though I love him. Okay, I’ll do it. A year off. (I’ll still trim the back of my neck.) We’ll see what it looks like when we get there. (I have many stylists around me to help me make the transition, they’ll help me get through.)
How about something vaguely Japanese, Rick? I’m not even sure what I mean by that. I’m just imagining it would be fabu.
Vaguely Japanese? I’m not sure what you mean, either. I ain’t cuttin’ my hair for a year.
Though I might have it trimmed by a stylist in the interim.
Maybe I’m thinking of samurai knots.
Rick would look amazing with Samurai knots.
Wearing a get-up like this. And samurai knots on his head.
“I’m gonna fuck you up one-side and down the other!” Buck to her daughter’s boy-friend on The United States of Tara.
If nothing else, y’all, find the pilot, watch it.
I don’t mean to suggest without a link, but honestly. Honestly.