Friday, 3 August 2007

Great Crested Dweeb

What on earth is going on with the fashion for Russell Brand haircuts?

Besides the fact that the man is a total prat, he looks like he's opted for a home haircut with no mirror after several glasses of wine, having had an unfortunate run-in with a bramble bush or three. As a consequence he bears an uncanny resemblance to the great crested grebe :


A bit harsh on the bird, perhaps.


This hairstyle is usually accompanied by punk/indie-style attire, comprising baggy, colourful tops, lots of eyeliner, Converse All-Star basketball boots and skinny jeans, which would look a lot better if the waistline was worn on the decent side of the arsecheeks. A centimetre or so of pants sticking out the top of your trousers is acceptable, providing they're not the ones that you've had since you were fifteen that you found at the back of your underwear drawer because your hair isn't the only thing you haven't washed for weeks, but some people go that one inch too far. Do you not understand? I don't want to see your bum.

History has shown us that fashion and good taste don't always go hand in hand, but the overgrown, lost-my-hairbrush-and-can't-afford-a-new-one, great crested grebe, arse-to-the-air look is just too silly for words.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've never been so insulted in all my born days!

katy yelland said...

took me a while to work out who this was. my guesses were:

1. beth
2. charlotte
3. some other silly bugger
4. a real great crested grebe

squawk.

Great Crested Grebe's mother said...

I'm very confused by this blog as I have a chick called Russell ( on account of the noise he makes when swimming through reeds in the riverbank ). Are you implying anything about his rather handsome crest?

Anonymous said...

From Chambers Biographical Dictionary (1974):
'... the success of his incidental music for Ibsen's Peer Gynt, on top of the award of a state pension ... He died at Bergen, loaded with honours, national and foreign.'
So many honours that he was known as The Great Crested Grieg.