Grab a beer or grab your pack of cigarettes because their is a lot to take in here. TCM usually sticks to reviewing facial hair in all it’s glorious permutations and while that is a small factor in this we couldn’t help but show you the whole damn thing. We present to you a chart of rock and roll hair styles since it’s birth in the 1950′s till now.
Please note that Captain Polish’s looks strikingly similar to a mix of Prince and Bjork.
Big thanks to N. Schwartz for sending this to the Captains.
If there is one thing TCM agrees upon it’s facial hair. Especially when it comes in it’s purest form, the mustache. Well we’ve stumbled on a new blog called remarkable moustaches, highlighting that very thing. Your life just got a whole hell of alot better.
I’ve been mentioning this for a good year now, and writing here has finally abled me to spread this bit of genius.
Anyone else notice that Los Angeles Lakers center and bearded Spaniard Pau Gasol looks a helluva lot like American Idol slash blind motherfucker Scott Macintyre? Check it out.
Now I know why the grizzlies traded him!
I hope that the loyal TCM readers remember when Kings of Leon were murky, southern rockers that looked oddly Swedish. But, if your favorite song of theirs is ‘Use Somebody’ then punch yourself in the ear and go buy Youth and Young Manhood and Aha Shake Heartbreak right after checking out how fucking badass they used to be (You know…only 4 years ago…fucking MTV).
Long time Lakers fans Anthony Kiedis and Flea take in a game at the Staples Center. What’s better? Flea’s impeccable face and hat combo, or Kiedis’ mustache? Also, that could be a bored-looking Josh Klinghoffer.
Today is tax day. First, get your taxes filed slacker. Second, answer this important question: should there be a tax break for the American Mustache Institute? With facial hair like this, it’s hard to argue:
Word of the wise, because sadly I’ve made this mistake more than once. I was in the process of growing a beard…soon to be of the civil war variety. I was a good 3 or so months into it and wanted to trim it down as I was beginning to look like a Jewish Rabbi in training. I had the clippers set to “5″ and (as you can imagine) had to clean out their hair quite frequently. When I did, I neglected to realize the clippers would be defaulted to a “1″ i.e. as close a shave as you can get. I than proceeded and next thing I knew, on the side of my face I could see flesh. The only way I could salvage it was to trim it into a lame ass goatee and sideburns.
Part of the reason I decided to trim down was to soften the blow/gawkers at work. I work in an office with mostly women that are over 40 and divorced, it made me realize something too. Any time I make a “drastic” change to my appearance by shaving or cutting my hair after letting it grow out a few months they feel the need to comment on it and let me know how they feel. They ‘ll tell me if they hated it and are glad I made the change or vice versa. Every time, it never fails. The men I work with never even acknowledge it, they pretend nothing has happened.
Yet another fundamental difference between men and women.
