My hairdresser gives me tips about horror films, anime and graphic novelists.
They do have the obligatory rack of women's & fashions magazines - but there's so much more to discuss with Justin.
From Orthodox religion, conspiracy theories to Emo haircuts.
He's great! Just finished watching MirrorMask ©2005 - on his recommendation.
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It struck me that the internet is kind of like The Really Useful Book - it tells you what you need to know when you need to know it.
MirrorMask is truely an amazing "cinematic art world" - like being on a stage with amazing backdrops and costumes. Really, really beautiful and unique.
The same guys created the book Coraline _ Writer Neil Gaiman & Illustrator Dave McKean.
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Now that I've seen MirrorMask, I'm not so excited about Coraline which now seems duller than it did before I saw all the original, hand-made art so cleverly brought to life for MirrorMask.
Maybe I'll wait for Coraline on DVD now.
The official trailer spiel goes: "A world of extraordinary danger, terrible secrets and daring discoveries.
"This year, when adventure comes knocking, there are some doors that should never be opened.
"Written by Henry Selick ... "
AH! That explains it. Hollywood thinks it can do it so much better.
"Henry, there are some doors that should never be OPENED by Hollywood!"
But I suppose, I hope you paid the artists well for the film rights.
Both stories are about mother-daughter relationships to some extent.
I took my mum to my hairdresser today to get a decent cut.
Justin was amazed to discover that there are four generations of women and girls in our family - my grandma's over 90.
She's known to her great-grandkids as Baba Tonja (To-n-yah) her name is Antonina - not many of them around these days.
Maybe this is why I dreamt of her last night. She wears a hairnet, uses olive oil to condition her hair and occasionally has a haircut.
My mum got home from the hairdressers, after three hours, looks in the mirror at an impeccable cut and says: "I feel like a peacock!"
Quiet disapproval inhabits her face.
The vision of her last $15 hacked haircut - something closely aligned to the cuts the Nazis gave Jews in WWII - will probably haunt me forever.
Today cost her $100. She probably has four haircuts a year. So last year she spent less than $100 on haircuts. That puts this into perspective.
OH no! Just heard a TV ad for So You Think You Can Dance? Tonight! But I was going to watch The Orphanage next.
Must go! I have screen culture to watch.