I put these pictures up as inspiration couple of days ago. And then yesterday was reading Patti Smith’s “Just Kids” and she writes of cutting her hair for the first time since she was a teenager, scouring magazines for pictures of Keith Richards. My posting is of Mick of course, but I thought it was close enough to be a sign. Here is the excerpt “…my haircut caused quite a stir. I couldn’t believe the fuss over it. Though I was still the same person, my social status suddenly elevated. My Keith Richards haircut was a real discourse magnet. I thought of the girls I knew back in high school. They dreamed of being singers but wound up hairdressers. I desired neither vocation, but in the weeks to come I would be cutting a lot of people’s hair, and singing at La MaMa. Someone at Max’s asked me if I was androgynous. I asked what that meant. “You know, like Mick Jagger.” I figured that must be cool. I thought the word meant both beautiful and ugly at the same time. Whatever it meant, with just a haircut, I miraculously turned androgynous overnight.”
