How sad! I have to wait until I get home to watch the video but I totally love and miss MTV videos! When is some station going to bring back 24/7 music videos?

this is what I watch on youtube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA

Oh girl. John Waite's "Missing You" was my fav. Smashing the phone receiver... And your hair had NUTHIN' on my hair. Wax away, Laurie.

I wanted to be one of the girls with the slicked back hair and the little black dresses in the Addicted to Love video. Actually, I still do.

I had/have naturally big hair, so I never really understood the fuss. ah, the 80s. You can have Nick, John was my fave. sigh. hubby and I have downloaded some of the old gnr stuff and were watching those about a month ago. good times...

Ha! The summer between elementary school and junior high school I realized how woefully out of touch with fashion and such I was (Mom played country and folk in the house and she made my clothes in elementary school). I watched MTV like it was a homework assignment. It was on non-stop that summer so I could learn the music and the fashion.

Glad to know I wasn't the only one doing that. ;)

Nick Rhodes was actually in my town last week raising money with Simon LeBond (however you spell this name - no one cared for him anyways - it was always Nick!) And he STILL wears the makeup like he did back in the day!

I miss MTV when there were actual VIDEO's - imagine that?

And as for me - I was a Bon Jovi type of girl - give me the HAIR BANDS of the day! Talk about freaking out your parents - in the Bible Belt & I loved the hair bands? its funny now - my husband has hair longer than me! Dreams do come true - I got my rocker in the end!

Courtney - me too!!! They were the COOLEST women ever. EVER.

What cracks me up about the 80's, more than the hair, was the wardrobe. Seems like I had a lot of "outfits", with high-waisted and baggy-legged pants, big shouldered tops, and man, was I the hottest thing in shoe leather. At least in my own mind!!! Plus all those huge plastic earrings in primary colors. Or was that just an Atlanta thing?

I too loved that song. But Nick Rhodes ... *sigh* Back in the 80s when I first started hanging out in the club scene in SF, there was a guy who was a deadringer for Nick.

Oh, and as I keep pointing out to folks, if you get up around 6 a.m. or so, you can still catch videos on MTV.

Ah Nick Rhodes and John Taylor... what a toss up between them!!! Now, I kind of miss my giant poster of Duran Duran. Thank you for bringing all of this up! Haven't thought about John Waite in years, now I have to find Ain't Missing You on YouTube! Please tell me it's there!

Funny how I "understood" the videos then and now I look at it and wonder, what is she so angst ridden about here? Was she unable to find a cat sitter so she couldn't go on tour? Did he have a great personality but bad breath, is that why she smiles one minute and then turns away the next? Maybe she had a job at Kinkos that should couldn't leave?

WHAT IS TROUBLING HER?

I remember hearing that song, but I never saw the video. I think the real appeal is that she is obliously so *upset* and *distant* and *maudlin* and he CARES SO MUCH. Hell, I'm impressed he even noticed how she was feeling. But, really, what that girl needs is some volunteer work.

Keep waxing nostalgic. I've been pining for the 80's myself lately...thank god for You Tube!

Thank God I'm older than you and I didn't dream about stuff I saw in MUSIC VIDEOS, for gosh sake.

I dreamt about stuff in the old-fashioned way, because of things I saw in TELEVISION SHOWS.

I didn't take no stinkin' 3 minute sound byte. No, by golly, I sat on my ass for a full HALF HOUR! You 'kids' had it way too easy, for sure.

[And I never did get my collie. *heavy sigh*]
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My present-day self looks at that house and thinks, "Their clothes are on racks? Heck, MY clothes are on racks. It's not a Dream House without ginormous closets."

But the Le Corbusier chaise... coolest chair ever.

OMG, we could have had a double wedding when I married Simon Le Bon.

We didn't have the whole John Waite thing in Australia but I sure was up for the watching videos non-stop and obsessionally. Aaaah! I could do the whole 'Dancing in the dark' video step for step!!!!!!!
(is that really sad to admit?)

She was tormented. On the one hand, there was a tour with some pretty major mullets. Who wouldn't want to do that? On the other hand, there was going to be a big sale at Benneton.

OMG I just laughed out loud AT WORK. It was the freaking Benneton comment that finally did me in....

You guys are way funnier than I am. I quit! LOL

I'm sure you also planned to park your motorcycle inside like they did, and have random bits of zazzle floating through the air as well.
I know I did.

Hang on......I'm having an 80's flashback....yup yup that's what it looked....I also flashed back to the smell of hairspray?????? lol

I thought I was the only one look up old videos of rock faves. Right now its Rick Springfield but John Waite is great! What a voice. I have a few of his songs on my iTunes. I love the internets

Alright...I thought I was alone in my Nick Rhodes love when I was a teenager. I LURVED him so much I had this ginormous poster of him on the back of my bedroom door. As I grew older I realized I didn't really like him so much as I wanted to LOOK like him. I always loved the way he did his make up and hair.

How sad is that? I can't believe I justs admitted that on your blog.

Music videos were amazing. I love nothing more than just sitting and watching videos to pass the time. And when the pop-up variety was invented I thought I died and went to heaven!

~sigh~ I miss the good ol' MTV days when they actually PLAYED videos. I was in my 20's during the 1980's and my favorite thing was to sit and watch the videos or just to have them on. I am very, very fashion impaired, however, and never went in for any of the 80's styles. Gee, I missed out! And even though I grew up with classic 70's rock bands, my fave retro music is the 80's.

Oh Lordy--
Growing up in So Cal there was a fine line you walked between that HINT of MTV coolness and the de rigour fashion leads of the hopelessly beautiful, wealthy and tan (oh LORD my chubby sorry-ass poor girl albino self wanted to be TAN) Guess-clad cool girls. Dressing every day was fraught with peril--copy the wrong video and you were a "poser" but if you tossed in a hint of the right video hair with the right "casual but not TOO casual" beach fashions and you were IN. Man, I studied that subject like it was calculus. And I still nearly break out in hives if I'm not dressed just right. Kind of a "Post Traumatic Fashion Syndrome". Aren't I supposed to be "mature" and "above that" stuff by now?? (sigh)
Oh well. But hey- if anyone wants to come over and get their 80's nostalgia on, come hang out at the local Starbucks here in Santa Monica. We've got near-daily John Waits sightings because he lives up the street from us. Honestly, Laurie, I don't know if he lives in that to-die-for pink loft- but it looks like a pretty posh condo building, so who knows? ;-)

Please notice the outfit at about 2:32. This was the look I was going for EVERY summer day between 1984 and, oh, 1992. How does she achieve the perfect blouson-ing of the shorts, the cinched waist, and then the blouson-ing of the top? I believe that if I could have achieved this same look, Simon LeBon would have come to his senses and married me rather than that other lady.

I, too, used a John Waite song, "I ain't missin' you at all...", to get over a teenage heartbreak. His voice really speaks to angst, doesn't it?

But, oh, the hair! My, oh my.

O.M.G. I adore Dire Straits. I have no clue what they look like (I was before MTV and never quite got into it), nor do I remember their names, although I did know them, but I adore them anyway.

Juliet
the dice was* loaded from the start
and I bet
and you exploded in my heart
and I forget, I forget
the movie song...

All right, so my stream of pop-culture consciousness runs in a different direction. But the music, 'tis a powerful thing, and thanks for that little jaunt I just took.

*My inner grammar checker knows this is wrong and doesn't care.

Oh Duran Duran... A couple years ago, they were at the Houston Rodeo, on that rotating stage! I freaked out all my friends with my excitedness and about peed my pants when they started. Tears may have occurred. Oh John Taylor, I love thee.

If I remember right, the guy who was the main dude in Dire Straits (Mark Knopfler, am I spelling it right?) also wrote most of the songs on The Princess Bride soundtrack, Lucia do you remember that amazing song from the movie...?

Ah, the ozone depletin' good times of the 80s!
I remember overhearing a girl in the bathroom in high school saying that her mother took away her Aqua-Net as punishment for something she'd done wrong.

How sad is that? The worst thing that can be taken away from you is your hairspray because then you have to go to school w/out your wall of bangs!!

heh -- whoops -- the aqua net comment above is me posting as my alter ego.

Sadly, cable was not allowed near our house when I was a teen. Living near Detroit, I made do with Much Music, the once-a-day Canadian music video program, until my parents Got A Clue.

We were also the last on our block to get a microwave (1980) and a VCR (1983).

As long as I get Simon LeBon.

As a girl with VERY FLAT HAIR I would STILL give anything for 80s hair... (Just not my own 80s hair - big permed bangs in combo with said VERY STRAIGHT VERY FLAT HAIR was not a good look... not even for a 2nd grader...)

Hi,

I am a faithful reader (I also bought your book) which I loved.. But today I am bursting because.... it's my birthday and even if I think I am old enough and that I shouldn't be the center of the universe (come on get over it you're 37) I CAN'T help it.... I want to shout it to everyone... Sorry... I am happy, it's my b-day... I even sing it to myself... I thought you would enjoy the sillyness, cause you're the same right ? right ? (Please confirm I am not a mental case in dire need of some Sam Lufti medication ?

Thanks,

A.

Early on Saturday morning I was channel flipping and came across VH1 Classic and they were playing videos from the 80s for an hour straight. The Cure, The Jesus and Mary Chain, etc songs I hadn't heard in forever. One straight hour of only videos! Shocking.

And then I realized, this is VH1 Classic??? The music of my young life is now classified as old school and classic?!?!

We didn't have cable, so I never really saw much MTV back in the day. However, I lived in the city and OMG!! I wanted that hair. Really, that was the hair of my highschool dreams.

Totally off topic, but I thought you'd get a laugh... Last night I did a Google image search for 'father, face, tattoos, baby', and got a hit, on page 11, of your driver's license photo!

Why was I searching for 'father, facial, tattoos, baby'? You'll have to check my blog post for 2/5 :-)

When I was in highschool I wanted to marry Dave Vanian from the Damned....sigh....he's still hot!

Happy Birthday Andrée-Anne!

My favorite was having music videos on the tv during parties.

Does anyone remember "The Midnight Special"? It was like having a concert in your home.

So much poignant longing! As a teen I was totally doe-eyed over this video. Now that I am no longer a teen, it makes me laugh. A lot.

Surely you have seen the site with three hours of archived prime-time 1983 MTV, including the commercials and everything?

http://www.appelogen.be/2008/01/25/3-uur-mtv-uit-1983/

Is that Freedom Rock? Turn it up, dude!

This cracks me up!!! I too was a hair-spray totin' high-waisted trouser wearin' kinda gal in the 80's - my smart-ass 14 year old daughter asked me the other day "Mom, you survived the 80's ... How do I make this mousse stuff work" (I just about rammed my mascara wand into my eye when she said that)When I quit giggling I told her she needed to take it easy on the mousse and showed her how to gently scrunch for body and gentle waves. She give me a hard time every time we get the photos from my teenage years ... I have 2 younger sisters and I'm sure we depleted our share of the ozone. She frequently "shares" clips from her favorite bands, there is NO WAY they can come close to the hair, ska, and punk bands of the 80's!!! Viva la ROCK (Adam Ant)

What?? No love for Roger? He was my fave....I've always had a thing for the shy silent type...

And I have photos from Nick's wedding and reception. A lady my dad worked with was Julieanne's best friend. So she indulged me by sending me her pictures. I so treasure them to this day.

I wanted soooooo badly to look like the girl from the A-Ha "Take On Me" video. I was not so much into BIG hair as I was the tousled look (and my fine hair was having none of it)

Oh, Adam Ant, be still my heart...

My Duran boy was John, but Nick was a very close 2nd. Fortunately for me, my 6th grade best friend chose Nick so we didn't have to fight over them. It was all about John and Nick. sigh. That brings up some _crazy_ memories. :)

I love Youtube almost as much as I love Laurie!

And thanks for taking me back to my MTV days. I remember watching it when Paula Abdul actually seemed sane. And Cyndi Lauper was so cute, but you knew she had that sour, punk girl, body odor smell around her. And the chick from the Motels was really hot, with those big lips.

YouTube feeds the need for my youthful memories. From HR Pufnstuf, to The Buggles video, to commercials for Freakies cereal. It's all there preserved in internets glory.

Thanks for making me feel like I'm not alone in my obsession with things past, Laurie.

In fact, I have my own blog where I write about a lot of this stuff, http://livemusingsnightly.blogspot.com/

Come see me sometime!

You rock, Laurie! XO

PS, when are you coming East??

We lived in the sticks and consequently didn't have cable but one of my BFF's did...oh, the glory of the video! It occurred to me the other day that I am just about middle-aged...when the hell did that happen? My 20th high school reunion has come and gone, my music is now defined as "classic"...WTH? It makes me think of that Bowling for Soup song "1985"...I think that should be my new anthem!

I wonder how many hours I spent trying to exactly copy Madonna's moves. And her hair. And I still swoon (a tiny bit) over AdamAnt. :)

great...i just spent 1/2 an hour looking up total random 80s videos.

Way to rock mah world!!

Gaw I feel so old now.

I miss my 1980's hair. This is how scary I looked back then (keep in mind I was a singer in a band at the time):

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/jrberry63/people/me-tails-red-stripe-snarl.jpg

Forget Jon Waite, Nick and Simon--I was destined to be the next Mrs. Steve Perry if only we could get that Oh Sherrie out of the way. HEH!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=__eI4u_tQD8

Am I the only one who noticed that the cat in the Jon Waite video looks a lot like the cat on the photo of your book, Laurie? Hmmmm....

Obviously that cat is still getting print work!!!
Thanks for the trip in the way-back machine! I used to come home from college and literally sit comatose in front of the tube and watch Mtv for HOURS on end. My poor finace has no idea when I ask " remember this video?" he lived in a rural area with no MTV!!(tragic!)I was so enamored with music videos I used to daydream about making them. Probably so I could meet and marry Sting and have his 3rd set of children. Bwaaahaaaa!!

Thanks again for the blast from the past! I graduated in 1987 and I am and always will be forever 80's in my heart! All I can say is my husband and I got XM Satellite radio for the express reason that I need my 80's music!!! 80's on 8! Journey 4Ever!! :o)

Listen, bee-yotch... Nick Rhodes is MINE!!
Oh, my god, I loved him when I was 13!

To me, growing up in BFE, the best video from the 80's was "Take on me" by A-Ha:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUod3jGQt0U

20 years later, I still stop to watch it whenever it plays.

Remember when John Waite was with the Babies? "Isn't it time......"

John Taylor - SO HOTTT. Joe Perry - also SO HOTTT.

A coworker and I listen to Yahoo Launchcast (Hair Flare and all the 80's stations - you can also pick specific artists and the station plays more uncommon songs.) When songs are played, we're all about the "OMG, remember THAT video?" I may not recall all the lyrics, but I KNOW the videos!.

Happy birthday, Andree-Anne! (Of course you are allowed to shout on your 37th birthday. If I can shout on my 49th.)

I know lots of great lines from The Princess Bride (I do not think that word means what you think it means...), but I am completely blanking on the music. I am such a dweeb.

~squeals like a little girl~ Ohmigawd!! You were going to marry Nick Rhodes??!?!! I was totally going to marry Simon LeBon and Nick was going to do my make-up!! AND? John Taylor was going to give me away! =)

I miss the MTV that played videos all the time..... sigh.....

With the end of my 25-year marriage last year, I have been looking for music that would not make me tear up and cry. Music always reminds me of the times and places in my life, good and bad/sad. I recently got a bit hooked on watching UTube Journey and Steve Perry videos cause the music did not remind me of life with X at all. Glad to find that others are watching old music videos from the 80s on UTube too. I was worried I was nuts.

Ok, why has no one mentioned Michael Jackson?!? Maybe he wasn't hot like the Duran Duran boys, and he is a freak now, but I know you all remember the first time you watched Thriller... and roller skated to Beat It, or Billy Jean.

I laugh now about how upset I was when my friend Melissa took a pencil eraser to my poster of him and erased his nose. I was so mad at her, it was like she had a premonition and knew he wouldn't have it some day! :)

Thanks for the video flash back... takes me back to Saturday afternoons with my friends hoping that Material Girl or Rio would come on. Of course, we were crimping our hair and putting on teal make-up and pegging our jeans while we waited!

Memories! Makes me want to go out and rent all of the Molly Ringwald movies!

Jennie, I was a complete MJ addict. I know I've mentioned it on this web site before, but I was a HUGE Michael Jackson fan. I loved him, I had the poster of him in the yellow sweater hanging on my door. "Off The wall" changed my life... better leave that nine to five up on the shelf....

Oh no, the best John Waite video is "Missing You". Who can forget the scene where he slams down the phone and it shatters? Classic. I miss the 80s.

Happy Birthday, Andree-Anne! Adam Ant- sigh. I was in college by then and the only time I got to see MTV was when I was home *pout*. When I transferred to school in Boston I didn't even have CABLE! The horror!

I LOVED MTV! Remember when it was all videos all the time with the VeeJays?? The videos that come to mind are Addicted to Love (loved the women) and Take on Me by Aha. That was a great one about a girl who goes in a book with the cute character and they become "animated" together. Loved it!!!

I, too, was a slave to big hair, leggings and the "angst" look. Maybe we are partly to blame for global warming..... too much hairspray!!

Even Bono had tons of hair back then, but he didn't wear the guyliner like the singers I craved did.

Maybe that's why I have a thing for Pete Wentz these days.

Still laughing at the Benneton comment!

I was one of the unfortunates who did not have cable during the 80s. I remember the voice, but John Waite's hair just makes me think of Dana Carvey singing Chopping Broccoli on SNL. (regular network tv - at least i could stay up late on weekends!)
honestly i'll never forgive my parents for making me miss You Can't Say That on Television!!! (i did have friends with cable, but their parents wouldn't let us watch MTV - which was almost worse than not having cable at all)
--and benetton. HA!

I am so many days late in posting this - but comments were closed when I wanted to - and I am JUST remembering now that I wanted to! - Anyways - I also took badminton in college - my friend and I picked it from the B group (we had to do 1 A group class - a high energy activity and 1 B (badminton, golf (also took that!), yoga (also took that!), bowling, etc. and 3 others that could be any combo of A, B or C (First Aid!!!!)) - SO - We take badminton and the first day the teacher - who was also the college's softball coach comes out and says "I know you all took this because you thought it would be easy - but badminton is an Olympic sport and we will treat it that way." She then had us run a mile - that is a lot of laps in a gym!! Ah - college gym class!

If you want sheer 80's bliss, check out http://www.vh1classic.com/. You can browse videos to your heart's content.

Deee-lite's "Groove is in the Heart" is one of my favorite "perk-me-up" songs.

I also second the nomination for A-ha's "Take on Me" as the best video ever.

You know, I may have gone through bad hair and that crazy period where I wore huge shirts with shoulder pads belted over stirrup pants, but I'm still happy to be a child of the 80's.

Ahhh... the VeeJays! I think every guy I knew was in love with Martha Quinn! As a girl I just hoped to be as cool as her.

The greatest part of getting Sirius is hearing all of the great old MTV VeeJays on the 80's channels. :-)

I personally was going to live in the "warehouse/loft" from Flashdance. I wanted to dance at night but wasnt' too keen on the welder thing. Oh yeah, I wanted her dog too.

Duran Duran never did it for me, I liked bad boys, I am a bit older than you, but David Lee Roth was my future hubbie. Loved that long scraggly hair!

Bbbbbbbb, for fun, non-teary eyed music, check out Bowling for Soup on youtube. they have some fun, quirky songs, especially High School Never Ends.

Happy bday Andree-Anne! you must still be in your 20's to be so happy to hit the big bday ;0)

laurie, you are so lucky you were young in the 80's with poofy hair, mouse and hairspray. i was a teen in the 70's. think hair combed straight, parted in the middle with no product or blow dryers. hair hell. guess what? in your linked your teen pics, you look a lot like my niece. cute blondes rock!

yes, you're right. lofts are appealing, still today.

happy wednesday.

mck.

I have a cat like that now. hehe

Am I the only proto-goth girl here? In high school in the '80s for me it was all about the black clothes, white skin, red lipstick, black eyeliner and nail polish and Bauhaus, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees... I still think The Cure had some of the best pop songs of all time. My taste in most things has changed a good deal since then, but I will always love me some "new wave" music! Must go find videos...

Happy Birthday Andrée-Anne!
And no Eve- you're not alone. I longed for my BFF's burgundy hair and eyeliner in HS and ended up exploring my gothy side in college. God-- Listening to The Cure STILL brings back some great flash backs!

No Way Nick Rhodes would have married you! He only had eye(liner)s for me!

I saw him just the other day on TV--still cute, but he looked much better with make-up.

Not long ago, I found my CASSETTE TAPE copy of Thriller, complete with the receipt from 1982 tucked in the case. I'm surprised I didn't need another copy of that, since that is all I played for about 2 years. In fact, I graduated high school in 1984, went to work in radio in January 1985, and we were STILL playing that album....

I used to watch Friday Night Videos, since we were MTV-less in our tiny town--and I used to call and vote for Rick Springfield videos. I wonder if my parents ever figured out what those phone charges were...

reading these comments has just FORCED me to go to iTunes and start downloading like a madwoman.

I remember being soooooo in love with John Taylor. My mom came home one day and told me she hear that "some Taylor" from Duran2 had gotten married. I completely freaked out and listened to the radio the rest of the day to find out which one it was. Thank god it was Roger so that John could still marry me! Remember that poster where he's wearing the b/w stripey shirt and has burgundy hair? OMG!

I used to walk home from school everyday and secretly hope that my family somehow got DD to come to my house and surprise me, and I'd walk in the door and be so excited I could die. God, I was such a pathetic kid.

Eve....no, you are not alone. I was mostly into "new wave" as well (and now listen to "alternative"...things never change). The HOURS I spent listening to The Smiths?? And, yes, I had a strangely big crush on Robert Smith. Love and Rockets, Psychedelic Furs, Roxy Music, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Housemartins....ahhhhh! My mom still says to this day that she knows what groups I listened to in the 80's because of the weird names....

OMG--I was in LOVE with John Waite, seriously.

Oh, god, the man mullets! Go big 80s hair!!!

"So when I think about that video I just have this nostalgia for it. The eighties were such a hopeful time in so many ways (God I am really sitting here waxing maudlin about the eighties? Have I forgotten my hair?) but it was kind of dreamy and goofy and people were trying all kinds of crazy new things and it was a really great time to be a teenager."

I don't find this silly at all. I'm a few years older than you are, so we grew up about the same time. I understand EXACTLY what you mean.

ACK! I was listening/watching a Wham! (got to have the exclamation point!) yesterday for my totally 80s flashback fix. And oh my. That girl in the John Waite video - the up-turned collar on the jean jacket, oh the memories.

Ah, John Waite, my college crush! I actually *saw* him perform in a little club in New Haven, I was *so* in heaven! I will never forget those shirts with tails and the long unbuttoned cuffs that extended past his wrists as he sang. Sounds so stupid now, but in the eighties, it was hot!! LOL Thanks for the nostalgia trip!

I have lost many hours to watching old 80's videos on you tube (I am just thankful people smarter than me have figured out how to put them on there!).

I was one of the last people on Earth to get MTV...but I was the first person I knew to have a VCR (it was HUGE). And I would unhook that 20 pound thing and drive it to my friends houses to re-hook it up and tape MTV to watch back at home and pretend I had MTV. So believe me, I know what it means to be pathetic! But I don't regret one minute of all that dreaming I did...I loved the 80's - still do!

If you are now heading to YouTube to check out some old favoriets, try some Canadian favorites of mine Honeymoon Suite (Remember "New Girl Now?" and Platinum Blonde who have all the fashion and hair of the 80's wrapped right up in any one of their videos!

Thanks for the memories!

Cashmere Addict,

That was the poster that the nose got erased from! How funny!! He wore a yellow sweater and I think white pants.
Ahh the memories...
Jennie

Laurie, you are so much prettier than the blonde in the video. You should have been in that video!
I am old enough to be your mother, but I too had a crush, and he was going to come rescue me from my unhappy teenage life and marry me! Ha! It was Bobby Rydell. (Do you even know who that is?). I only got to see him for the 1st time, a few years ago. He, Frankie Avalon and another - his name escapes me - were playing at a local casino. He was still handsome, after all these years. I think having crushes on pop idols is a required rite of passage.

Adam Ant was my man. Sadly, at 15 years his junior, I'm still too old for him. *Le Sigh*

Marlene, you questions cracked me up. Yeah, what was stopping her from going on tour with him?

I had a few of those granny dress/vest combos myself, but the hair... I could never master the mussed hair.

Oh, John Waite's still really gorgeous! Whippet thin and with - for a while, at least - shoulder length auburn hair. Yum. Since I am (ahem) older than you, he's called MY name for some time. Even back in The Babys, he had highly stylized hair. Check out his videos on YouTube and look for him when he tours - we can start a movement!

Also, he's nigh on hairless. I can't stand a hairy chest.