Contemplative Jenn is keeping the dream alive

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Beehive power 11 months ago

My belated birthday plans were rained on, thundered and lightninged on, too. No Vibes were Gathered, no festivities joined. Sigh. But not to be thwarted, I cooked up a suitable Plan B, which turned out to be so much more than a consolation prize. E and I feasted on falafel and stuffed grape leaves at Mamoun’s (a NH fixture) and then joined thirty-five others to fill Cafe Nine, the smallest (beatnik, punk) live music cafe ever to party with Christine Ohlman and Rebel Montez. We drank, bantered, laughed, and grooved, and found an excellent new hangout. Montez rocked, and Ms. Chrsitine mesmerized, in her sultry, kickass fashion. The night flowed smooth, and sweet, like honey. Sometimes, we get just what we need.



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Ohhhhhhhhhhhh!! I LOVE her, from the beehive on down! I must seek out some of her stuff. Thanks for that! I am glad you had a good night out. I am due for a good night out myself.

My mother used to wear a beehive hairdo in the late sixties, early seventies. This tall black, highly laquered temple to the cult of the feminine perched atop her head, above her beautiful face. It was something to behold. Perfect. Hers never leaned to one side like a melting ice cream cone, like some of the other ladies’ beehives. We kids actually used to refer to a neighbor lady whose behive did lean as “Ice Cream Cone”, because her hair was the color of French Vanilla and always looked like it was about to melt off her head at any given moment…....

Contemplative Jenn is keeping the dream alive

I love the image

of melting hair. I will take it with me into my evening, and who knows, perhaps it will find its way into art. :)

Christine Ohlman is amazing live. Recordings of her don’t do her justice. But yes, she is fab. Her newest album is “Strip.” Check it out.

I have an ongoing list of albums and songs I want, she is definately going on it.

That would be cool to find the idea and image of melting hair in your art somewhere! Want a name attached to Ice Cream Cone beehive lady? Her name was Lainie, and she seemed really old, but only because she led her life in a way that broke her time and again, and she never seemed to have the wherewithall to liberate herself. I think she was only in her 40’s back when I knew her, but she looked so old. We didn’t call her Ice Cream Cone to her face. Her life already had enough misery without the local urchins adding to it. She had a leaning beehive hairdo, an alcohlic husband and vacant eyes.

This place is a veritable mine field, and or gold mine of inspiration for creative types I think, artists and writers, et.al., don’t you?


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