My computer is old. My software is broken. My brain is tired. Which is my way of saying: I still haven’t worked out how to edit a bit of UK video and embed a clip here. (Or anywhere–because it’s not the embedding that’s the problem, it’s the clipping, seriously: is it even possible to do this shit using only Windows Media? I tried downloading a WMP trimmer plugin but that gummed up the works.)
But I didn’t let such a little detail deter me. For your delectation and delight I pulled some screenshots from said video and was happily making them into a slideshow when Kelley said: Yikes! You look like David Bowie!
I stopped work immediately, feeling crushed. So now I need to know from you. Look at these two photos, taken on stage at the Brixton Academy (or was it the Brixton Ace? I forget) in 1983 (or was it ’82?):
and take the poll:
I really did have a mullet. The camera doesn’t lie:
A dyke mullet. I am mortified.
Nicola Griffith 
I decided on the ‘sadly, yes…’ though it is not a sad thought to me personally [lol]. I love David Bowie, so I love your Thin White Duke look ;)
Sorry, I had to go with sadly yes. I also had one of those horrific dyke mullets, thankfully there is only one known photograph, unfortunately everyone in my family has a copy of it!
It is not sad to look like David Bowie. He is a sex god from heaven and so are you. Sport that mullet with PRIDE!!!!
I managed to skirt past the dyke mullet phase without succumbing to its siren call.And, yeah. Totally Bowie, babe. =)
If Kelley was on crack she would say you look like Eminem! She is right, and David Bowie could not be in better company. I sincerely hope you get the vid figured out, but if you can’t just put on a few more pictures.
Nope. You look like a prettier version of Pat Benetar (or possibly a prettier Andrew McCarthy. Jury hung on that one).
Heck, I had a mullet in the 80s. And I couldn’t take the poll because it isn’t “sadly” in my case, as many other people have said.
Yep, Bowie. Why mortified about exhibit three? There’s a reason hair grows back. IMO, anything growing on and in and around our heads is to be messed and played with—says the dyke with the always-morphing, now-mohawk hairstyle. I’ll trade you your mullet photo for my afro one, if I can find it.
bowie would’ve killed to look as gorgeous as you are :)
Hi, Karina. I remember the summer my brother got s Mohawk. Consternation in the family! I thought it looked great, but then I was only seven.
Regardless of who you look(ed) like, you looked great then and fantastic now! No need to be mortified. :)Besides, there’s only the slightest resemblance between you and Bowie. I’m voting crack.
Hey, Barbara. Yes, my mohawk is very popular with the kids. Also, it has gotten me more flirting action from women than any other hairstyle I’ve ever had. I don’t care if I find myself feeling mortified about it a few many years down the road—so far it has served me well, and it has no upkeep beyond washing. ;-)
Well, I would never disagree with Kelley about something like this, nor would I ever suggest that she is on crack – even in jest. :) However, while I will say that the resemblance is there, it is only superficial. You were and are way hotter than him. And you are aging much better than Bowie is – your skin is practically flawless.Just to be sure I did some research. I have posted the proof on our < HREF="http://an.aviewofonesown.com/" REL="nofollow">gallery<>.But hey – maybe if Annie Lennox thinks you look like Bowie, that could be a good thing.
You could have been his twin. Luckily, it’s Bowie circa 1976 that you looked like, and that’s a look worth emulating. Compare that last still of you with < HREF="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/2246375/David+Bowie.jpg" REL="nofollow">this<>.
Are you kidding? A similar hair color and cut do not make for much of a resemblance IMO. I think Bowie looks horrible in that pic – emaciated, dark circles under his eyes…
i showed my husband the pictures and asked, “who does this look like?” his response was immediate and also Pat Benatar.
Hey, we’ve all done things with the hair that we regret.I used to <>crimp<> mine in the late 80s.
You look …. KEWL … and so did Bowie so what’s the problem? We can never look back at previous fashions with 20 20 vision – you had to be there to appreciate it and I’m sure that way back then you looked KEWL too!! And I’m glad you’ve managed to look like Bowie without sporting his signature note Aladdinsane hairdo which I was never fond of. Ok so how about recording us a few bars of Life on Mars – still my fav Bowie track!??
I don’t mind mullets (though I’ve never had one myself — for the last few years I’ve sported buzz cuts). Something about the word itself though — I always feel it should be the name of some kind of fish.I think you looked pretty good.
A fair resemblance, but you are prettier than Bowie. To tell you the truth–you look like you. A bit younger at a time when we all wore mullets and black vests.At least K. didn’t say you look like Jagger.
Youth is always beautiful. Might be a mullet but hey…really well cut!
I used to get free haircuts–I was a guinea pig for the stylist. Sometimes it worked well–a leopard-spot dye-and-cut–sometimes it went horribly wrong, as when I was meant to go grey and ended up bright blue. Those were the days…