Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Alchemy waiting area reading material

Dawn got her hair professionally styled recently at Alchemy Salon & Spa in Sacramento, for her graduation ceremony. (aside: months ago, we observed the owners hanging the sign over their shop...they seemed enthused and ebullient)

While I waited, I browsed a book, "Hair Heroes," by Michael Gordon. It mentioned some random stylists and I learned a few random facts:

  • Jimi Hendrix grew up in a broken home...he rejected the ukulele given by his father for a second-hand electric guitar
  • Gene Shacove, the stylist who screenwriter Robert Towne based the movie Shampoo on, really hates Warren Beatty...Beatty picked up the movie and ran with it but Shacove claims Beatty never really gave anything to him...even though he claimed Towne spent months at his salon
The salon featured coasters with two URLs on the bottom:

  1. http://irongreymammoth.com/ (now http://www.jairustonel.com/)
  2. http://meetthepressgang.com/ (currently not loading as of the writing of this post...but it seems related to https://pipl.com/n/Stefan_Burnett/)
The shop also had a 2006 book called WIG about fashion and hair, which I cannot find a reference to on the Internets.

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