So, there's this Japanese hair salon owner, considered a guru of what's-cool in Tokyo, by his celebrity clientele & fashion media. He flew into nyc, relied on my gf as his translator, & gave me a haircut, in a ghetto-ass city park. I'm told it's a $500 haircut. It looks alright. I'm more impressed by some layering-thing he did, which makes it easy to run fingers thru my thick hair. He flew back to Japan yesterday, so I was free to make my own adjustments with my clippers this morn, without giving offense. He's a good dude. He has nothing to do with this next bit...
Yesterday I was booked by the budget-version of MAC cosmetics, to assemble their booth for a convention. This sign was at the entrance to the conventional hall:
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The booth featured a personal appearance by a make-up artist named "Mac Daddy". This is he:
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Apparently, the inclusive, progressive state of beauty products-- emphasizes blacks' big lips. The white is a skinhead. And the oriental has a one big, purple slanty-eye.
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Upstairs, in the same convention-center was the most butch event, ever.
"Experience Science Through Commercialization"
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The beauty-booth company had a college intern, from Switzerland. I invited her to find-out whether our Javitz Center Laborer wristbands would get us in-- to the upper convention. Yep. Everyone looked like Walter White, and every booth featured a stainless-steel object from his lab (in the later-seasons).
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As we walked to the subway, the Swiss intern told me she & another intern were looking-forward to attending a drag queen performance. I mentioned 'Mac Daddy', & the intern was sure I was a confused straight white cis male, who couldn't tell the difference between a drag queen & whatever Mac Daddy is. Swiss girl is a fan of RuPaul's drag race, but told me RuPaul is old-- and out of touch-- and, although he did good things for gender; he has been surpassed by younger people who know better. And RuPaul doesn't understand why he is now considered offensive and regressive. [For using words like 'tranny']. I told her I used to dance for vogue-influenced modern dance troupe, influenced by Paris Is Burning. And I think we've gone backward-- RuPaul was more enlightened than the people who now criticize him. A flash of fear crossed her eyes, and she abruptly decided not to take the subway downtown with me, after all. Suddenly, she wanted to walk alone. lol.
Before that-- Tuesday-- I had one day on an event, with Brooks, a running shoe company owned by Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway. A runner they sponsor was the surprise female winner of the Boston Marathon. But not as big a surprise as a casual-runner fulltime-nurse who finished 2nd, in her 2nd-ever marathon. The Brooks event was an exercize class with a trainer named Kasia, who looks like The Hulk & Black Widow's lovechild. Dude abs, dude biceps, lady-ass. Everything about the Brooks event aggressively practical, budget-minded, oblivious to shifting trends, almost frumpy. It was the opposite of my week with Dolce & Gabbana.
The japanese hairdresser guy wants my gf to represent-- in Japanese media & dealmaking with business-affiliates-- the US brand he came here to license. I might travel with her to Japan, by the end of the year. Or not. Who would look-after my dog?
I can't believe what I do is a job. I just got an offer of 2 days in DC-- no client or details specified. This month has been exhausting, so I declined & recommended a friend for whatever-it-is. Also, another email: about a one-evening Apple event. They want headshots & a CV, to hire me to do-what? Stand at the front of a party & check arriving guests names against a list on an iPad?! C'mon. And a heavy-duty NDA arrived. Most of these clients don't require NDAs, or they only object to me disclosing *before* an event. But this client is an international bank, so they have much more concern for Loose Lips Sink Ships. Still... I think I might just be unloading trucks full of catering supplies, for them.