PASCAL OWED ME £10 so I went to his parents' lovely carpeted, oriental be-rug'd driftwood, pot-pourri fine glassware bourgeois home where he inhabits an attic he says he converted himself into a wonderful room in just three months of fulltime labour. He didn't admittedly install the windows (who would? By themself??) or the radiators (trained plumber's job) or the bare pine floorboards (which had already been laid in anticipation of the space's use) but all else he did do; including the cupboardified walls, all the plastering, and every fitting. He did a wonderful job and I'm not surprised he doesn't want to move out. We sat there, got stoned watching Aljezeera TV on his new Sky system (so much better than cable!!)
Because we've had no hot water in my place for over a fortnight and because I've no washing machine chez moi, Pascal let me use his power shower plus washed all my clothes for me. I emerged feeling cleaner than I have done in weeks. Then he sat me down on a scarlet three-legged stool, and in seconds snipped my horribly overgrowing hair as short as I like it. I'm so grateful to Pascal for all he did. Don't know why I let my hair grow so much. With glasses on, I was getting to look like Weird Al. My hair can go horribly curly but it looks straight now. Once, some years ago, when I was at Nutnut's house, we did my hair with Sun-in. It looked a little like Madonna's in some of my vidblogclips. Artificially brightened. Nutnut knew of a place you can go where trainee "hair technicians" cut-colour-perm-relax-braid and otherwise treat in any way you like male and female hair of all descriptions. After my standard cut (which cost about £3!) they did a strand test for colouring it. Some minutes later a red-faced girl puffed back demanding "what have you put on your hair?" "Why?" I asked; "What do you mean?" "When we added a test drop of the chemicals to that sample of hair you gave us, it melted and smoke started coming out of it," she explained. "If we'd have put that straight on all your hair would have dissolved at the roots and turned to jelly and fallen off and you'd probably have a scalpfull of blisters. So whatever that product was you lightened it with before, it's badly damaged your hair. Don't use it ever again. Just let it grow out naturally." Which is what I did. And I have not touched "Sun In" (6% peroxide spray) ever since. Imagine if we had used some home product (as Nutnut was often wont to do ...) and my hair actually had melted and slid off my head. I'd have gone nuts ...
The Video Blog is coming along superbly. Presently it's nearly all musical "offerings" ... but I will get to posting other stuff up. Though presently it is following my own interests more (hornets-hamsters-Sinead O'Connor) some rare gems are up there already. Do drop by, please, inform me what you think of the new decor there...
... & I'm taking requests, please. Anything you wanna see -- just tell me ...
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Someone from critiquemyblog.blogspot has promised me a critical write-up. Let's see what they say ...
Gled, this is so weird and no word of a lie here. I just returned home from Shopper's Drug Mart and when I was there I took my usually gander at the "clearance" table. I noticed a bottle of "Sun In" and considered buying it....I used to use it a lot when I was young. I didn't buy it though, thought I'd let the sun naturally lighten my hair (as it does). But, honestly, I haven't thought of Sun In in twenty years and now I see it in the store on the same night that you mention it!? I hear the Twilight Zone music now.
ReplyDeleteAlso...for my request on your vidblog - Oasis. I know you like them and I do too...I'd like to see some of them on there.
Friends like that are worth more than rubies!
ReplyDeleteInteresting story about the hair stuff. I used that sun-in stuff back in the late '80s once and yes, it made my hair brittle and crack. That was when my hair was long, so it was a big deal. Last summer I had it dyed blond, professionally on a whim, and it was much better.
I like the Madonna link (although I have problems watching it -- my firewall again). Maybe some homemade vids? Can you get your hands on a camera for a day??