Chicago: More Bars in More Places

oh that's not the blonde lady from Melrose Place. it's Chyna Phillips. same diff, though.

oh, but you were right the first time! it's both of them!
truly heinous haircut

this girl in my hs class got that haircut and WOW was it bad. it was trying to be sort of pixie-ish but they got it all wrong and it was 100% bowl. she was not happy.

i think it's made extra bad by the fact that the back was so short. if the back had been just a little longer it might have achieved a shaggy cuteness...maybe. but the back was extremely shorn and the front was wall-of-bangs. yuk.

has anyone ever seen that blonde lady from Melrose Place and Chyna Phillips in the same place at the same time?

i am no one to talk, tho -- i had an a-sym.

hahaha no...but they might have been in a lifetime movie together as twinz

my mom cut my bangs in middle school. it was traumatic. also, bangs are not for me.

it's only appropriate that the 90s came in with a haircut that was just 100% bangs -- they got rid of everything else that went along with big hair and focused on the one thing that mattered: BANGS.

"Hold On" is in my head now.

xpost omg that's totally correct, Amanda!

i am sorry about the song. i do not take responsibility for that. break free from the chains.

That 90s thread mystifies me.

oh, it's okay; I like "Hold On."

it's not really how i remember the 90s, but i went from being 15 to 25 during the 90s, so that was a lot of ground covered.

remember Carnie Wilson all in, like, a trenchcoat on the beach in that video. ;_;

The breakdown in that song would be hilarious if it was re-imagined as a straight-edge hardcore anthem.

Actually, the whole song would!

i guess i was 14 at the beginning of 1990, actually

yeah, i always felt for carnie because of her name. that was a step too far, brian wilson.

I haven't really read the nineties thread but whoever posted the logo for Baz Luhrman's Romeo & Juliet otm.

HAROLD AND KUMAR

ie that's all I think about when I think about "Hold On."

I know this pain
Why do lock yourself up in these chains?
No one can change your life except for you
Dont ever let anyone step all over you
Just open your heart and your mind
Is it really fair to feel this way inside?

People could totally pick up change to someone screaming this.

the harold & kumar connection might be why I like "Hold On," to be fair. cute boyz

i have never seen that movie so all i see is shannon, my 9th grade bff totally getting down to this and indigo girls while i scowled at her and wondered why we were still friends at all

http://www.punknews.org/images/interviews/champion_1.jpg
Some day somebody's gonna make you want to
Turn around and say goodbye

hahah I used to have, like, 4 Indigo Girls albums, Amanda! We could have been bffs!

until i started scowling at you

;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1CwsNw7yY

I don't understand that line, "someday somebody's gonna make you wanna turn around and say goodbye."

The picture of the hardcore band singer I included with that post seems to have disappeared already.

But yeah it doesn't make a lot of sense anyway.

why are you not mine, Kal Penn?

the only thing shannon and i could agree on was concrete blonde because i was totally obsessed with this dude named joe and she liked the song about god getting his ass kicked.

who is kal penn?

Kumar of "Harold and" fame

oooh i see

i am going to dig out concrete blonde tape right now

I think she means that someday somebody is going to make you want to say goodbye and turn around (and leave), but don't! Hold on to your codependent! And don't turn around and then say goodbye because the person might not hear you!

http://www.smoothjazznow.com/Discs_small_3/swing8.jpg

BREAKOUT!

ha!

Kal Penn's real name was a crossword clue a few weeks ago.

but it's so weird because right after that line, she sings, "until then, baby, don't let 'em hold you down and make you cry" as though the moment when someone makes you want to turn around and say goodbye is like, a fateful event that will be some sort of turning point?

I don't know Kal Penn's real name.

she can't be expected to make any sense with that haircut.

Kalpen Modi (an Indian dude I work with reiterates this for some reason)

ha! there are people out there more creepily obsessed with kal penn than I!

Kal Penn reminds me of my friend Amar from middle and high school, though last I heard Amar was heavy into martial arts so he's probably not as cool as Kal Penn.

His dad was a Mountie.

Amar's, not Kal Penn's (as far as I know).

http://www.rfm.fr/dbimages/2006/artiste/lisastansfield_2006_240x180.gif
BEEN AROUND THE WORLD AND I-YI-YI

she also had quite a haircut at one point, Lisa Stansfield.

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/covergallery/img/1990/jun291990_20_lg.jpg