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By: Free movie night for the kidlets | Los Angeles Metblogs

Free movie night for the kidlets | Los Angeles Metblogs — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:30:43 +0000

[...] Ps…salute to Travis K for her idea on the Bottomfeeder Guide to LA! [...]

By: Travis Koplow

Travis Koplow — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:28:48 +0000

Depends how you define “part of.” I went to a lot of shows in DC around 1980-82. (There was even one in my friend Janelle’s suburban basement.) That scene was hugely influential to me. But would most of those people remember me? Naw. A few, but not many. I was no Cynthia Connolly or Monica Madhouse. I was just lucky to be an angry misfit at the right time and place. Actually, amusingly enough, I got introduced to punk rock because Brendan Canty used to go to Rocky Horror when/where I did. Ha!

By: chimatli

chimatli — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:05:40 +0000

I go to the Paul Mitchell school in Alhambra. I sometimes get the feeling they are not too keen on doing my hair because it’s so long and they have to blow dry after the cut. The blow drying alone takes about an hour. However, it’s part of the ten dollar haircut package and a salon would charge me $40 just for blow drying. My friend has gotten some awesome haircuts at the school, sort of short and shaggy – super cute.
Travis, just curious were you part of the DC hardcore scene?

By: The 8 Track Kid

The 8 Track Kid — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:25:13 +0000

That looks like a few bucks well spent. When I was growing up, my mother and all of my older female cousins we’re enrolled in beauty school at some point so the basement of my grandmother’s house frequently turned into a salon on Sunday afternoons.

By: Travis Koplow

Travis Koplow — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:07:59 +0000

I’ll go with you, LM. That way the stalkers can get a twofer bargain.

By: lucindamichele

lucindamichele — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:54:50 +0000

I am SO going there to get the blue re-done. It’s faded to chlorinated-pool-blue.

Fraz, they already can find us if they want to.

By: cybele

cybele — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:54:43 +0000

When I first moved to LA I used to get my hair cut at the Vidal Sassoon school. Then one day two of the students go into a fight about who was going to cut my hair … neither of them wanted to. (The teacher ended up doing it, and it was fabulous.) Needless to say, I didn’t go back after that.

The big problem, though, with going to the academies is the time it takes … they’re so freakin’ slow. Now that my time is more valuable I actually pay for haircuts … except when my time is so valuable I can’t be bothered to get my hair cut.

By: frazgo

frazgo — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:44:21 +0000

Oh you are a brave woman, not the cheap cut but posting your pic on the web. Stalkers and mashers abound.

By: brianneg

brianneg — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:38:04 +0000

I love Paul Mitchell schools, though I go to the one in Costa Mesa. My former receptionist left the company to go to school there and I got some great cuts and bleach jobs there for a great price.

I would advise one to avoid Vidal Sassoon however; you get much less say in the haircut.

By: bromike666

bromike666 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:21:53 +0000

I have a friend who swears by his Flowbee and has not been to shop in twenty years.

He’s a really, really old friend so I forgive him but still keep him locked in the attic.