why in god's name WHY did i ever think this was a good look...

Dec. 1st, 2004 at 8:59 AM

Amazing the things that are unearthed when someone has too much time at home and decides to turn the house upside-down.

I hadn't seen this contact sheet for ages — pictures from TEN YEARS AGO when I'd just moved to L.A. and one of my first friends there, a Polish model named Jacek, was trying to break into photography and took these for his portfolio. Needless to say, within months he was dealing e instead.

I hope you're appropriately horrified by the goatee. I know I am!

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silentshout

Dec. 1st, 2004 09:10 am (UTC)

liiiike the facial hair! in the fourth one you look a lot like christian bale.

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scythrop

Dec. 1st, 2004 09:15 am (UTC)

What is it with you Canadian ladies and the facial hair?? I'll just tell you now, there are NO flannel-shirt shots lurking in the attic ;)

Christian Bale ... hmmm, I will take it!

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kore

Dec. 1st, 2004 09:12 am (UTC)

omg. you look nice but there is definetly something very 90s about the facial hair. :)

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kore

Dec. 1st, 2004 09:13 am (UTC)

& you are almost unrecognizble!
like your evil twin or something. shocking.

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bardot

Dec. 1st, 2004 09:17 am (UTC)

oh, my!

maybe every guy with a goatee looks like eric balfour to me lately, but that's what i think of looking at that sunglasses picture.

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scythrop

Dec. 1st, 2004 09:19 am (UTC)

Oh, haha — I love him! Awesome.

I'm not going back to it though :p

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mordicai

Dec. 1st, 2004 09:40 am (UTC)

haha you scum bag.

that is my goateee; but not a look. i just stopped shaving 1/2 way through to see how aweful i'd look. it turns out, pretty bad!

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scythrop

Dec. 1st, 2004 11:06 am (UTC)

At least you still look like you! I kind of like it actually. Very diabolical.

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franklyvulgar

Dec. 1st, 2004 10:05 am (UTC)

Quel horror!

Have you ever seen Richard Butler with a goatee (sample #2), also in 1994? Almost unrecognizable! Perhaps you'll find it consoling that you were both "experimenting" with them at the same time!

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scythrop

Dec. 1st, 2004 11:04 am (UTC)

Re: Quel horror!

Yikes! So bushy – and ginger!

OK, someone looks worse than I do with facial hair. Whew.

Dear Richard: Can we both make a pact to never do that again? OK, great.

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rroseselavyoui

Dec. 1st, 2004 10:42 am (UTC)

The Dread Pirate Glowery!

Needless to say, I love it in a Pirate context!

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scythrop

Dec. 1st, 2004 11:07 am (UTC)

If only I'd had my tricorn & eyepatch at the time. Although I don't think that's what Jacek was going for...

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curare

Dec. 1st, 2004 11:06 am (UTC)

wow...
in the 4th, 7th, and 8th shots
i'd never even have guessed it was you.
the 4th one's my favorite.
pretty awful but still somehow sexy
(in a motorcycle riding 90s rebel way).

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scythrop

Dec. 1st, 2004 11:09 am (UTC)

Haha, yeah, the 4th one is a little bit Mickey Rourke. Or maybe Mickey Rourke-wannabe, which is just terrifying.

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scythrop

Dec. 1st, 2004 12:30 pm (UTC)

OMG I'm totally going to go! Do you think I'll be able to lose 25 lbs by then? You know, for that emaciated I-could-eat-a-rat look I had going on ten years ago.

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caprine

Dec. 1st, 2004 11:41 am (UTC)

Aaaaaaa! It's the evil mirror-universe

scythrop!

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scythrop

Dec. 1st, 2004 12:32 pm (UTC)

evil cousins.

So, like, is a goatee the male equivalent of a black wig à la Bewitched/I Dream of Jeanie? I always liked how the Addams Family had the anti-evil cousin with the blonde wig.

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sanikleen

Dec. 1st, 2004 12:11 pm (UTC)

I'm constantly struck with the rediculous desire to grow a beard.
Luckily, the horrible itching always wins out in the end...

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scythrop

Dec. 1st, 2004 12:34 pm (UTC)

Don't do it! Not unless you're going for that Orthodox mystic look, anyway.

What am I saying. Now that you're married you can totally let yourself go to pot.

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scribble

Dec. 1st, 2004 12:45 pm (UTC)

the camera never lies

Oh sure it was your "friend" that started selling E.

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scythrop

Dec. 1st, 2004 01:43 pm (UTC)

Re: the camera never lies

Well it sure wasn't me — never could stand the stuff. Too much hollow giddiness ... scary!

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sugartwins

Dec. 1st, 2004 01:08 pm (UTC)

wow you have really sharp cheekbones

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scythrop

Dec. 1st, 2004 01:45 pm (UTC)

i guess so...

Especially when I weighed 155 lbs!

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glck

Dec. 1st, 2004 01:20 pm (UTC)

Great photographs, no, really! Apparently, it is the subject that causes my profuse delight :)

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scythrop

Dec. 1st, 2004 01:48 pm (UTC)

Oh I don't know, I'm just a ham that'll be anyone's subject. You should have seen some of the embarrassing college art projects I lent myself to...

Jacek did end up being a good photographer, once he got his act together. Nowhere near as good or creative as you though :)

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