i’ll be in your eighties cover band, sure.
Some mornings are more glorious than others.
They all start the same way, mostly.
I generally get so hungry that I am reduced to opening my eyes. Nice and slow. Maybe even one at a time.
But about being hungry–every morning I wake up to a belly that acts like I’ve never put anything in it for the entirety of its existence. And believe me, this is not true. So I’m all, Listen, belly. I got up in the middle of the night, not even five hours ago, in order to creep up to the kitchen and eat; can’t you at least act grateful? But it’s all, WAAaaaaaaaaa!!!! and my reasoning is completely lost on it until I eat some cereal.
But before I get to the cereal part, I blearily walk to the bathroom and attend to business.
But sometimes I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror and bam! I see my hair.
And it looks like I was visited in the night by The Hair Fairy, who is maybe The Milk Fairy’s second cousin once removed, but was definitely a stylist on the set of The Wedding Singer. And she comes in with her curling iron, her hairspray, and her wrists that can tease hair a hundred strokes a minute.
And by the time I get up in the morning, I look like this.
And oh, baby, those bangs. So I document it, because–well, look at it. Flock of Seagulls should totally ask me to do their reunion tour. I can play keys, guys. And I can harmonize to whatever you throw my way. Oh, and I have a little treewood guitar, but please don’t ask me to use a pick. I’ll make up for the lack of a pick with my bangs, though, promise.
But then it gets better.
Cause I decide to run my hands through my hair, embellishing The Hair Fairy’s work just a bit, and I get this.
And as you can see, it makes me totally happy.
I’m so in with Flock of Seagulls.
in Funny Stuff, photography
as bathroom, belly, curling iron, fairy, flock of seagulls, hair, hairspray, nice, reunion tour, second cousin, time, way, wedding singer
My name is Jessica and this is a nice, quiet space that I like to cram with words.
Love the hair! And how you look like you wake up with a perfectly made-up face!
I think it’s the lighting or something, cause my face doesn’t usually look quite so made up when I stumble to the bathroom…It usually looks creased and tired…:-)
I did notice that made up face! LOL! The hair is still cool even in the a.m.! A very honest question boo, with your features, have you visited any modeling agency open calls, for some quick money. Your tall, lean, full lips, great features my friend! You should do that soon!
Thanks, JR! I’ve done some modeling, but not much, and honestly it didn’t pay much $$$ at all…But maybe it’d be worth going to an open call and hey, if there’s some $$$ to be had by it, then I don’t mind that at all!!!
Miss you:)
Hahaha. Man, I almost want to cut my hair short to get that awesome bedhead like yours. Of course, I’m only “Sonatina in G from 8th grade” good with the keyboard and I don’t understand how anybody just harmonizes out of the blue as if it were easy to do or something, so maybe the Flock isn’t my thing, but the bangs, now those are cool.
no way, I think the Flock is totally your thing. Come on. You know you wanna do it–let’s go tour the world together, big hair and all:)
Jess – it’s me, Jim L. Love the “hair piece”. Hey, I SAW Flock of Seagulls at McDonagh Arena at University of Maryland when they opened for Squeeze. Um, yeah, it was the actual ’80′s. And yeah, you could totally replace that guys hair!
hahaha Jim, that’s so cool you got to see them in action!!!!
Ah, my sister in growing-really-short-hair-out, I will send you a photo of my bangs one of these mornings. I love it!