Turn And Face The Stranger

Back in May I commented on my shift away from my Morrison-esque look that has characterised me for the better part of half a decade. Along with the thousands of days of maintaining shoulder length hair, last week's wind and rain piled in and convinced me to get a haircut.

[IMAGE REMOVED] 1253, my appearance for the last 5 years ; 1406, my appearance for the last 15 minutes

The guy cutting my hair was a certifiable metrosexual - flared jeans, pastel blue t-shirt, spiked die-blonde hair. I'm not condemning the guy, labels are how we communicate ideas. Having my hair cut and having a conversation are not two simultaneous actions associated with me. I'm used to unblinking silence. He asked what I did; rather than say fuck-all, I told him I was on the Social Sciences college course. That's half-true, I never tell outright lies - that way the façade remains unbroken. I actually think it was cheaper than having my shoulder-length hair trimmed. Quite possibly a reimbursement given how much they'll make with the hair I left there.

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He's a European Legacy, a Culture For Today

Roses, Henri Fantin-Latour, 188x

The past week has gone by quite slowly, rather than it's usual thundering pace, which tells me I'm out of another depression. The obsessive tendencies of the past two weeks have stopped.

Last Thursday I sat up in bed at 0340 and wrote another (less vague) hash of Low 4/4, mainly for myself. It was one of those 'teenage disappointment' style pieces I seem to write too often these days - I don't want this to end up a diary. Anyway, it helped me get a number of things off my chest (or more accurately, one person out of my mind). It's somewhat disturbing how easily you can cease to hold particular feelings toward someone overnight (at least, consciously - whether my dreams will betray me...).

I'm thinking about getting my hair cut... On an almost totally unrelated note, I'm just thinking, did Bowie make instrumentals fashionable (particularly ones that flow into the next)? The Human League's first two albums (1978 and 1979), Spandau Ballet's Diamond (1982), Simple Minds' Empires and Dance (1980), and Ultravox's Vienna (1980) have them.

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