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Woo-hoo! Howl's Moving Castle is getting a wide US release in June - 60 theatres at first, but expanding to 700, it seems.

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Hair talk. If you don't care, skip.

New hair! Got my hair colored and chopped. The 99% of you who've enver actually seen me in person won't have any clue how different this is - it's much darker and shorter and there's some actual style in it, I promise you, even though it's not coming across very well in the pictures.

I've been trying to find a funky place to do my hair because I hate drab hair. Unfortunately 99% of the places around *do* drab, boring, everyday, conservative hair. Then a coupon for a $99 cut.color for first time visitors from Esoterica Salon crossed my desk. I visited their website and they seemed pretentious enough that they might give good hair. So I made an appointment.

I walked in today and ... the guy who cut my hair had a turquoise Mohawk. This is an excellent sign. And they were willing to dye my hair whatever funky color I wanted it. I went fairly normal - dark, dark brown with subtle red streaks in it - because I want to feel out my workplace first for funky hair before I commit to massive purple streaks or something. The haircut itself took like an hour and a half -they guy seemed to cut every hair individually. This is good. My hair doesn't do well with simple cuts, since it's very fine and utterly, completely straight. Someone has to know what they're doing to do my hair.

I knew I'd get along with them when I told them my last stylist refused to dye my hair very dark because she said it'd wash me out. Bzuh? I look good in black, and the time I wore a black wig to A-Kon I had people stop me in the hall to tell me how good it looked. These guys thought the previous stylist didn't know what she was talking about. :)

Anyway ... it's just under my jawline (they hacked about eight inches off - it was starting to get pretty long), very piece-y with lots of layers throughout to allow for lift, and it's deliberately designed to be messy textured, because that's what my hair tends to do anyway. I didn't ask for this specific cut, just showed them a lot of photos I liked and let him have at it. Less decision-making for me, and I think I'll just change it every time I go in to have it cut. :)

( Click here for out-of-focus photos! And one cat photo! )