In search of a barber

[Dim Witty]

I haven't been to a barber in over 20 years and my hair looks it. Anyone know a good barbershop for men's long hair?

 

[rob0001]

There is no f-ing way this guy is real, hahaha...has anyone actually met him? I once sent him a pm to offer help with some banking issue but no reply...is this guy a troll? There are barber shops on almost every block and women's salons, for long hair, about the same, lol

 

[Ries]

I used to go to neighborhood places. Quality varied, they often wanted to make me look like Catriel. I am 71, I dont want to look like a cheto barone.
Now I splurge and go to Le Grand Patron. He is a really amazing barber, in a gorgeous art deco building on Suipacha near Marcelo T. I go once every 3 months or so and the haircuts are the best I ever had. He is on social media if you want to see videos.
He is not a kid, a seasoned pro. They give you treats and drinks, a manicure if you want, its like going back in time.
Not cheap but worth it. $40,000 pesos in april.

 

[Ries]

Here he is cutting hair

 

[Dim Witty]

Here he is cutting hair

Thanks so much, Ries. I appreciate it. I'll make an appointment.

 

[Utopos]

I don't know what I find funnier --- 20 years without a haircut or paying $40.000 for one. Sorry, that's just me...

"Have Sheepshears, Will travel"

P.S. If you understand the allusion, you may not have enough hair left to worry about.

 

[Ries]

I don't know what I find funnier --- 20 years without a haircut or paying $40.000 for one. Sorry, that's just me...

"Have Sheepshears, Will travel"

P.S. If you understand the allusion, you may not have enough hair left to worry about.

hair is a personal thing.
40,000 pesos, is, even in Buenos Aires, not that much. There are, of course, haircuts here at triple that cost or more.
In the USA these days, 200 dollar barbers are certainly not rare in any major city, and fifty dollars, (75,000 pesos today) is pretty average.

I have gone years without a haircut. I have given myself a buzzcut every couple of months for years at a time.
and I have had my hair cut by people who are really good.
They all have their merits.

its odd to feel offended if someone decides to spend money in ways you choose not to.

There are many things people spend money on that I would never do.
There are many things I spend money on that most people would not.

the man asked for a good barber.
I told him about one.

I used to go to a building in Los Angeles, the Los Altos Apartments, supposedly built by William Randolph Hearst for his mistress, Marion Davies.
The building was full of weirdos, punk rockers, aspiring movie stars, hollywood below the line employees, struggling writers, artists, and people who fit no definition whatever.
It was not the least bit threatening or dangerous, just high wierd.

In a basement apartment, I would get my haircut by Texas Terri, who cut all the musicians hair, as well as being in a band herself.
She had a natural ability to give you the perfect haircut, and, the craziest dye jobs.
I would be there for hours, getting my hair bleached white, then recolored in confetti colors, of dyed gray with blue streaks.
This was the mid 80s, people like Dave Alvin from the Blasters would be sitting on the sofa waiting their turn.
It was not cheap, and I made very little money.
But it was, for a couple of years, quite the experience.
Totally worth it to me, in that time and place.

I have known people who spent far more leasing bmws to impress valets, or on drugs, or on 50 or so semi-automatic weapons, or on trips to antarctica, or on walking the Camino de Santiago, or on cocktails every night at expensive bars.

you, be you.
I will go to a good barber, if it pleases me.

 

[Ries]

or it might have been the one Joseph Kennedy built for Gloria Swanson.
Terri is still, at 71, singing punk rock all over the world, and, probably, cutting hair to pay her rent.
She is big in Germany, and there is a video on youtube of her in Tokyo 20 years ago with The Damned as her backing band.
and she cost close to what 40,000 pesos is worth today in dollars, in 88 or so when I used to get her to cut my hair.

hillel slovak od'ed upstairs in that building right around the same time.
she probably cut his hair too.

 

[wineguy999]

hair is a personal thing.
40,000 pesos, is, even in Buenos Aires, not that much. There are, of course, haircuts here at triple that cost or more.
In the USA these days, 200 dollar barbers are certainly not rare in any major city, and fifty dollars, (75,000 pesos today) is pretty average.

I have gone years without a haircut. I have given myself a buzzcut every couple of months for years at a time.
and I have had my hair cut by people who are really good.
They all have their merits.

its odd to feel offended if someone decides to spend money in ways you choose not to.

There are many things people spend money on that I would never do.
There are many things I spend money on that most people would not.

the man asked for a good barber.
I told him about one.

I used to go to a building in Los Angeles, the Los Altos Apartments, supposedly built by William Randolph Hearst for his mistress, Marion Davies.
The building was full of weirdos, punk rockers, aspiring movie stars, hollywood below the line employees, struggling writers, artists, and people who fit no definition whatever.
It was not the least bit threatening or dangerous, just high wierd.

In a basement apartment, I would get my haircut by Texas Terri, who cut all the musicians hair, as well as being in a band herself.
She had a natural ability to give you the perfect haircut, and, the craziest dye jobs.
I would be there for hours, getting my hair bleached white, then recolored in confetti colors, of dyed gray with blue streaks.
This was the mid 80s, people like Dave Alvin from the Blasters would be sitting on the sofa waiting their turn.
It was not cheap, and I made very little money.
But it was, for a couple of years, quite the experience.
Totally worth it to me, in that time and place.

I have known people who spent far more leasing bmws to impress valets, or on drugs, or on 50 or so semi-automatic weapons, or on trips to antarctica, or on walking the Camino de Santiago, or on cocktails every night at expensive bars.

you, be you.
I will go to a good barber, if it pleases me.

I knew Terri in Austin back in the day! Small freakin’ world.

 

[Utopos]

you, be you.
I will go to a good barber, if it pleases me.

I never said not too. You read far too much into an off-hand comment.

its odd to feel offended if someone decides to spend money in ways you choose not to.

This is unclear - are you saying I felt offended? Finding something humorous is entirely different. I smiled, BECAUSE I realize how different people's priorities can be, something I actually appreciate without pretention.

It certainly was not my intent to offend, Ries, you or anyone. Should I be offended that you don't appreciate/understand my sense of humor? Nah, that's not important enough to me. I think you protest far too much and I will best leave it at that.