NEWS:

10.06.04 - Terrence Marks:

We got a muffler this weekend. The story isn't that cool, really, but our car is street legal again. I had a goatee on Monday. There's a story behind that, actually. I'd been growing my hair out. And when I got sick a week or two back I stopped shaving. The look I was going for was kind of a Let It Be-era Paul. If I were in a band, it'd be a really cool look. Maybe alt-country or psychedelic pop. But I'm not. So I've got this long hair, though, but it keeps blowing around. If I were in an anime, it'd be really cool. But I'm driving around and it's getting in my eyes. So I get a haircut. Then I've got a businessman's haircut and an artist's beard. And it itches. It didn't look right together, you know. So I started shaving it off but I didn't have time to finish - takes a lot longer to shave when you let it grow out for a week or two. Fortunately, I shave from the outside and work inwards so it almost looks like I meant to have it like that. If I started on one side and worked to the other, I'd have a third-of-a-beard which is just strange. I could've started in the center and ended up with mutton chops, but that's just *so* 1870s. I mean, like "Hello. William Howard Taft is calling and he wants his style back". But I shaved the goatee off first chance I got. I'm not into goatees. I mean, they're cool if you're a beatnik or a Dutch master painter. But that's not me, you know. I'm hip but not weird. And what does this have to do with Spare Parts? Well, I mean, I'm not much for facial hair on my characters. I don't think Jeff could grow a beard even if he tried. Todd might, one day. Definitely sideburns or mutton chops. Carl, I can't see with facial hair.