Alas, Romania IS Eastern Europe. And what, you may ask yourself, has driven our fair author to this conclusion. One word: mullet. Yep, they are everywhere. I guess back home mullet is acceptable only in two instances. The first is in any photos from the 80’s… ya know, trends come and go and we are all susceptible to them. The second instance is in regards to anyone who did any combination of the following things: a) outfitted his/her pickup with a shotgun rack, b) voted Bush/Cheney in 2000 AND 2004, c) enjoys any type of liquor with the name Boones in it, and d) lives in a non-fixed domicile. But here in Romania you will find the mullet on a wide range of individuals. Granted, the majority are spotted on middle school aged boys too young for the advanced E. European bling-bling of pimped out 70’s Mercedes’. But the trend is not limited to such types. With an alarming frequency, mullets can be spotted on older people who really ought to know better. And so, as a public service, I feel it is my duty to design a two-class lesson plan on the mullet. We will discuss its history, adaptation and current status. This of course will lead to an emotions based paper along the line of, “what do you FEEL about the mullet?” I think it will go down well. Yes, it must.
An observtion from the much older generation, there are a lot of things that i thought i was up to snuff on, but “mullet”is one that stomped me, for the simple reason that, to me, mullet meant only one thing–a fish–fresh or salt water, of which i preferred salt water. Much to my surprise, after consullting google i find out the “mullet” is a haircut style, albeit out of style these days. If one lives long enough one becomes acquainted with all sort of nonsensensical—nonsensene.
Stay well Matthew, Love–G&G
Good lord, now we have “mullet culture”:
http://www.mulletmadness.com/
You can follow up that lesson with a linguistics class on the proper pronunciation and usage of “duuude”.
“Like, duu-ude, like check this bitchin’ mullet!”
WD,
Whoa, whoa whoa. What is wrong with the mullet?! It is possibly the greatest hairstyle known to man! It is short, it is long. It is combed, it is uncombed. It is short and neat, it is long and wild. It has great nick names too: Camaro Cut, Hockey Hair, the Mississippi Mudflap, Missouri Compromise, and of course the Soccor Rocker. It is time to embrace the Mullet for all its wonderous possibilitlies!
CRBS,
What is culture? “… patterns, traits, and products considered as the expression of a particular period, class, community, or population”. Culture is a very interesting word as it has mutiple defintions and mutiple usages. Many different things can be a part of culture. Gender, Nationality, even something as arbritary as fav color can be a part of culture. So, yes one’s favorite hairstyle can certainly be an asepct of culture. Culture is the way a person identifies themself and if they want to identify with a particular hairstyle, power to them. People identify with all kinds of stuff, why not the mullet?
Hey Tex, you forgot:
“10-90” (referring to percentage of hair from front to back)
“business in front, part in back”
and CRBS, you forgot http://www.mulletsgalore.com – the original mullet culture melting pot.
I would love to hear how this lesson went – if you actually went through with it. I’ve been thinking about attempting a photo series on Euro-mullets as well, but I’m afraid I’ll get beat up trying to take the shots . . .
I myself am romanian and the mullet I myself have and all other eastern europeans are not country mullets but rather ones that represent a techno music style, especially house music.
The hair is usually straightened with an iron straightener and gel is applied to it to make it look funky (raise it at the top). It does not represent a culture, but a sense of style, a trend people have to show what they like.