Rock'n Roll Haircut must go

Almost one year ago, I decided to have my hair grow and take part in the 50's Rock'n Roll Hairstyle craze.

I grew my hair, which was not the hardest part, though. But my hairdresser has more of an understanding of rich Frankfurt Banker's Wanker hairstyle and no idea, what makes a fucking cool looking hair....Well it would be easy to blame it on the hairdresser, as the hairstyle itself has some great advantages. In the morning, you look like a gorilla, when you wake up, with all the hair sticking out from your head. You only need to wash them every second day, but after two days the fucking skin starts itching, so for how long do you keep yourself from the shower. Then it automatically pushes you into a new age category...in Kiev I was estimated as a 'senior' which I counted as an insult. Even my wife told me I remind her of her grandfather (Yes, mission accomplished) - and to be true I was inspired by my grandfather who was kind a motorcycle fan in the 50's, doing trips throughout Germany with his NSU.
He was such a blue collar hardcore mechanic until the end of his days (repairing all kind of agricultural machines and swearing on his good old VW Beetle, always buying old models which enabled him to drive without safety belt) that I saw it as a tribute to him.
But by now I figured that this hairstyle really is for seniors. It does not work for me because of four major reasons: I have a rather dramatical egg shaped head, which combined with the amount of long hair almost pushed me in the Dan Akroyd's conehead category.
Second, I have too much hair...period. This shit grows like crazy and it grows in the wrong direction everywhere. It is not as easy as having the last remaing strands grow and trying to cover the bald back of the head.... 

Third, I have to put a massive amount of effort into redirecting the hair into the backwards direction. I am not driving a cabrio the whole day, which would ease this task a little. No, I need to spend serious amount of time and chemicals to glue this shit into the shape you see above...Because I have so much hair, I need to put even more effort into the task. (reason four was time and hiding in the last argument).

If the money would just flow into my bank account without the need to work for it and I had the spare time to take care of my hair, I would consider to keep this, but at the moment, I'd rather spend the time on more useful things which bring me closer to my goals. Perhaps even that would be wrong if one would like to have a style which is rooted in the blue collar part of the society.
 OK, the hair must go and the reasons in short: too much hair, too much effort, too much time, wrong head and wig shape.
All the reasons above made me decide to go back to the boring, average but slick and quick to achieve Joe Doe hairstyle, until the one day, when my hair is white and sparse and it will be easy to grease it back.
I think I do not need a certain hairstyle to enjoy my life in general and the motorcycle builder and painter scene in particular. How do they say on AFN: Rock'n Roll is just a state of mind.

If someone else thinks differently, I will give them a friendly 'Fuck you very much'.

P.S. looking at the pictures above, I figure that I really have to pay tribute to my age...Damn.
And this is the second random trivia post. But somehow I had to explain, perhaps also to myself, why I need to change..

Halloween approaching

Despite my hatred towards imported rituals, I was not able to convince my wife to skip the pumpkin torture.
This version turned out really nicely, although I have the feeling it will decompose quicker and look more ugly very soon. In order to slow down the process, we put it in front of the entrance which is the coldest place around the house. So it will stay cool and frozen for the next few days....Next year i will give it a paintjob. Promised.

Crazy driving in Kiev

I promise to take pictures of the traffic in Kiev's rush hour next time I am here.
According to a friend, the driving is human compared to China, but still, i think this is Wild West.
Motorcycles are for the brave, and I mean brave. Here it really makes sense to join a wild motorcycle gang in order to get your rights on the street. Car and especially taxi drivers give a fucking shit about others and push their cars in every available gap. Using the horn on pedestrians crossing the street at a zebra crossing is more than normal. Stopping if someone shows a sign of going to cross the street is not in their code of conduct.
This would be the perfect place for every German police man, who likes to pull out cars and puts out fines... crossing a red light got a fine increase from 1 Euro to 20 Euros lately.
Everybody thinks this is unfair and out of proportion. Crazy country. Still interesting to experience.

Trivia

I finally scanned this food wrapping in: I brought it from my first trip to Kiev.

It is the packaging of the filled puff pastry Ukraininan International Airline serves on the short flight from Frankfurt to Kiev and vice versa.

Check the English translation – gives me a lot of confidence. I ate it the first time. Since then I try to have a huge breakfast in the morning to avoid this stuff.

I will not bore you that often with this trivia…

 

Max loves Rat Fink

My son is a big R.F. fan and I do everything to fuel his enthusiasm.
Check his coloring skills on the Rat Fink printouts I organized for him – he will pinstripe in no time.

Vintage Pinstriping Animation

No new pictures from my side, but an awesome Pinstriping video from the 70's on youtube.