hair is not a right, it's a *privilege*

[bossymarmalade]

Sometimes, I wish I got the artist DNA and she got stuck with the stupid writing genes. That's a lot of multi-fandom pretty right there.

I think that one of the signs of being Canadian is that you stopped liking Great Big Sea after "Road Rage" and are deep-down convinced that the Barenaked Ladies will never make an album that will top "Gordon".

Also, curly hair is a mark of SATAN. If I could pull the look off, I would gladly shave my head bald so I never had to deal with goddamn twirls and frizzes and all this nonsense again. All my life I've wanted a perfect, shiny-straight Louise Brooks bob. Without costly Japanese techniques, this will never happen. The world is a cruel and unfair place.

But at least I have a latte, and gingerbread syrup. That tends to make it all good again.

omg i need to take my st. john's wort

Comments

[glendaglamazon.livejournal.com]

All my life I've wanted a perfect, shiny-straight Louise Brooks bob.

I soooooo feel you on this! While I generally like my curly hair, I always wanted Lulu hair.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Lulu hair! All shiny and soft and slippery under your fingers instead of SNAGGING like tangleroot! *longing sigh*

[robanybody.livejournal.com]

are deep-down convinced that the Barenaked Ladies will never make an album that will top "Gordon"

I don't even have the words to describe how fabulous you are.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Hee! The fact that you understand EXACTLY what I mean makes you fabulous as well. But then, I already knew that. *mwah*

[chootoy.livejournal.com]

But if you gave up your writing genes, we would never have known of "Smugglers".

Sigh. Two once-great bands fizzled out. Did I mention *sigh*?

I wail in harmony with you on the curly hair issue sistah!!! Why? WHY?!?

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

I still have hope for BNL because I've sporadically liked songs from their newer albums, but GBS? What's going ON there, guys?!?!

*weeps forlornly*

[katlike.livejournal.com]

Well, see, I have hair that is very dark, and on the whole very straight. So much so that it WILL NOT hold a curl, as a general rule. It just laughs and slips right out of it. I always thought curly hair would be great fun. But this may mean I'm unbalanced.

On the other hand, I have had the Lulu bob several times, and it was enjoyable.

Barenaked Ladies simply will not make a better album than "Gordon". I was just listening to "Rock Spectacle" yesterday and considering this very thing.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Curly hair is fun on those rare occasions when it's not so dry it frizzes and not so dirty/full of product that it looks stringy. On those few and far between days, when your hair separates out into ringlets and curls and is gorgeous and full of bounce, *then* it's nice. I normally have these occasions a) when I've just woken up (and my hair is promptly ruined by showering) and b) the thirty minutes after I've washed my hair (before it starts to frizz). Le sigh!

Barenaked Ladies simply will not make a better album than "Gordon".

It's sad, but true! At least most of "Stunt" is listenable, and "Maroon" has its moments. But otherwise...meh.

[mostlikelyto.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, I have straight, straight hair and I wish it were... well, honestly, not curly, but wavy. And I can't ever get it to be anything but straight.

BTW, I've heard that those Japanese hair thingy things are really bad for your hair. Like, your hair will fall off in clumps. I like your hair, I think you should keep it. But that's easy for me to say, since it's not growing out of my head. :)

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Your hair falls out in CLUMPS? What the hell? That's terrible!

I adore your hair, by the way. I wish we could swap.

[lemniskate.livejournal.com]

you always want what you don't have ;) Buy a wig, hon. Low maintenance that way, too :)

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

A wig! I never consider that as an option, but really, I should. It might be fun. *g*

[lemniskate.livejournal.com]

and if you do it in the winter, you won't need a hat! ;)

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

Gordon is an albumn of sublime perfection. From the cover, soon replaced with one that did not include a picture of the band, to the beautiful harmonics. It's a masterpiece.

Everything after? Uh, almost a parody of the original wonder.

Although I'm glad they got their mortgage paid.

As for hair. I have hair as straight as it is possible to be. Fine. Thin straight hair. I can do nothing with it. I would love a bit of curl, some body, anything.

And while I've had a Louise Brooks haircut my entire life, I can't do the bangs due to one unfortunately placed cowlick. Straigth across bangs have never worked, since the day I saw the Crying Game at 14 and decided to get them cut.


Gordon is up there with What's the Story Morning Glory, New Miserable Experience, and the like as "Perfect CD of the 1990's".

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

In one of my rare moments of Canadian elitism (which I normally try not to do), I'm pretty much convinced that although the album can be universally enjoyed, only Canadians can *truly* appreciate and understand Gordon because the cultural references are just. Too. GOOD. *giggle*

I've been considering getting bangs for ages -- the sister got them and looked quite sweet in a pin-up girl kind of way, but I'm thinking that I might not have the face for them. Feh.

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

This is all my hair does. Ever. I sat brushed it once this morning, and sat in front of a fan all afternoon. I would kill for body. Or anything.

Also, even if you don't get the jokes? Gordon still rocks.

[strandia.livejournal.com]

mwahahaha! your soul is mine!

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

WhatEVER, lady! You're in the same boat as me. Moreso, in fact -- but then, your hair always looks good! Curses!

[rachel-wilder.livejournal.com]

Hey, I could get my curly-haired, sorority girl friend to come over and work with you while you're in town...she's got like this 46 minute routine with multiple appliances to do the trick.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. That sounds like medieval torture. And while I may complain about the stupid squiggly hair, I certainly don't have the patience for 46 minutes. How do people *spend* that much time on their hair? Mine's lucky if I even brush it in the morning!

[rachel-wilder.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think we need to go back to the significant part of my comment:

my curly-haired, sorority girl friend

She's coming to the Cow Palace with us before she goes off to the Center of the Evil World for a sorority weekend. BTW, town made CotEW by asshats, not because of sororities.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

*giggle* I know nothing about sororities, so I shall not bash them. And yay for meeting your girl friend! That should be fun!

[rachel-wilder.livejournal.com]

beth666ann can vouch for her, although not the hair straightening because I was making Sorority Girl ride in the convertible with the top down and there's no reason to straighten for that!

I'll bring an extra hat in case it's a top down day when I see you!

[karabou.livejournal.com]

I FEEL YOUR PAIN. While I love curly hair on other people, I loathe my own dry kinky wavey mess. What I wouldn't give for silky straight hair.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Exactly! When people have pretty curls, it looks delightful. Having my own dreadful scrabble of hair is a different story ALTOGETHER.

[ex_halo669]

does your hair style itself into cutesy-as-crap Shirley-Fucking-Temple-style ringlets of DOOM?

because, uh, mine doesn't. nope. not mine. no, really-- it doesn't. much.

oh, shut up.

[cries quietly]

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

You poor boo! I suffer from the I'm-sure-it-was-charming-in-the-Victorian-era, Helena Bonham Carter frizz. Which is awful enough in my day-to-day life, but you should have seen that ill-advised time in my youth when I dyed my hair purple and didn't realize I needed to overcompensate with the conditioner. I had...a big purple afro. And I was visiting my aunt in TEXAS. I don't know who was more traumatized, me or the small-town Wal-Mart staff.

*weeps on your shoulder*

[ciderpress.livejournal.com]

dude. the hair straightening perm is heaven. you get shampoo advert hair; you can run a comb through it without putting anything in it, you can make it shake and it'll MOVE and heh, it isn't dented helmet hair first thing in the morning. and it actually makes your hair much smoother and manageable.
it's every curly haired girl's dream. dude, it should totally be free as emotional trauma to all long time suffers. hee. i know justin would agree.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

mostlikelyto says that the straightening perm makes your hair fall out in CLUMPS! But you make it sound marvelous. "Smoother and manageable" are like DREAM WORDS.

it should totally be free as emotional trauma to all long time suffers

You are SO right. Also, can you imagine how long Justin's hair would actually have been if he'd had the curls straightened? That's just *weird*.

[cynjen]

Dude, curly hair is hot! It beats all other kinds of hair.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

*g* Sez you, missy! I bet you have glorious, straight, glossy hair that doesn't snag in your fingernails!

[cynjen]

::shuffles feet:: Um. Maybe. But it does have a kink on the left-hand side behind my ear!

Curses!