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Just a cool image that I thought I'd share. Have a great weekend!
Cheers,
Val
I happened to be listening to "Die With Your Boots On," by Iron Maiden, when I posted this. The psychoemotional effect was excellent :) !
--Val
Do you wear kilts, Val? For some reason, I can picture you wearing one. I think they are pretty cool, except for days with strong breezes... but, maybe that wouldn't be so bad, either...
I like those utility kilts I've seen recently. Not so sure I would like all the dressed up versions... too fancy for me.
Hi Fitz,
I have two kilts, but wear them less often than I'd like to... time to change that! I have seen the modern "sport" or "utility" kilts, and will probably purchase one at some point. Here are a couple pictures of my kilted self. In the cold-weather photo, I am pictured wearing a "great kilt" (a.k.a., "the whole nine yards") under a wool capote, just before jumping through a hole cut in the ice on a frozen lake with a bunch of friends as crazy as myself. In the photo on the left, taken about 5 years ago, I am pictured in a "short kilt," with my eldest son, then 8-years-old. On the bottom is a picture of my all-time favorite pro wrestler, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper.
I encourage any man who hasn't worn a kilt to try it at least once :)
Cheers,
Val
The short kilt is pictured in the photo on the right... not the left. Y'know, my other left! :)
--Val
Great pics Val! I am just not sure about jumping in a hole cut through a frozen lake though! Definitely not for me! Maybe one of these days I will wear a kilt...
Ted
What do guys wearing kilts do on windy days? Do you wear jeans/shorts/tights/underwear/or nothing under the kilts? What about on cold winter days?
Thanks, Val. That was amazing. I am also a Rowdy Piper fan. And a kilt wearer. I am planning on going to the Blairsville, Ga.Highland Games June 14th. If anyone here plans on going, post it and maybe we can meet while there.
Hi Val,
Wow how I remember the good old days at the clubs when the bands, as well as the audience,did this all the time during the shows.Still my neck hurts just thinking about it! LOL.As for the kilts I think they are very cool.I've never gotten brave enough to buy or wear one but who knows, maybe someday :) Enjoy your Memorial Day my friend.Cheers
Mârk
I got a kilt a while back, so far i've never had the nerve to wear it. Most likely i'll wear it at the next science fiction convention.
Could someone explain why you would want to do this and how you do it without getting a massive migraine headache and very tangled hair?
Hi Val,
This is an awesome image! I love it! And I wish you and your family a safe and long Memorial Day weekend!
Ted
Remember this TV Show, starring in its lead role Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod, the longhaired Highlander? There were lots of longhairs in the show. Many got way too short haircuts.
The show is off the air, but you can buy sets of the old episodes on the Internet. It's called "Highlander, The Series".
Bill
There were also a number of Highlander movies, (don't bother with last one....trust me on this.) The series also spawned a short lived spin off series Highlander-The Raven.
BTW, his long hair was a weave and they got rid of the long hair
at the end of the series.
(If y0u have Comcast it is available on demand.)
"There can be only one."
His hair was probably original at one point, but it was cut short for awhile late in the series. They actually auctioned off his ponytail, so I'd doubt that was a weave. Anyone buying it would have noticed.
Weaves, or wigs even, don't matter much on TV or in the movies, because the viewer can't tell. That is not the case in real life, but as a media viewer you never see that. So they seem like longhairs. Well, they are REALLY just a bunch of dots on a screen, you know. What counts is that your mind thinks they are people and what kind of people they are.
What was important about the show was that it appeared at that dismal time when we never saw longhairs in advertising and almost never in roles on television. It was a breath of fresh air at a time we were almost completely ignored. The show reached its peak in popularity in the mid to late 1990s, the same time and amid the same environment that MLHH saw when it came into being. The few opportunities to see and connect with other longhairs that that show and MLHH provided were so important then. The thaw began around 2002. At first we began to see longhairs reappearing in print advertising.
Media exposure is important. We hear of far fewer instances of discrimination now, for example.
The show did not exactly provide good role models for young longhairs, I mean really, running around and chopping off people's heads. Longhairs who wonder what they should be "when they grow up" need to see longhairs in diverse roles. "I will play a guitar because that, and cutting off people's heads, is all that longhairs ever do," is not the revelation we want for our youth to get from television.
Sure, I watched the show. A lot of us did. The world felt a very lonely place when we never saw any other longhairs.
Bill
Except that was the premise of the show. "There can be only one." Ff DM was to be only one left he had to behead the others.
Even thought the watchers were supposed to be impartial, the show features a watcher saying there can only be one, may that one be Duncan McLeod.
Whether it was a good or bad role model, it was the premsie of the series. And DM would be considered a good guy.
The character of Duncan MacLeod was my first external inspiration to grow my hair long, though the inner desire had been there all along. The show originally aired when I was in high school, and saw me through my--thus far--only successful attempt to grow long hair. Great stories and characters, and at the time, incredible movie-quality production value for a television series. It is now available to view streaming on Netflix.
As an aside, my matrilineal heritage includes descent from the Irish McCabes, who had been the Scottish MacCabas--a sept of the Clan MacLeod--before emigrating to Ireland as mercenaries to fight in border wars. That makes Duncan my clansman :)
Cheers,
Val
I would suggest though if you want to watch the series (and the spin off series Highlander: Raven) that you watch the first two
Highlander movies. The fist movie especially sets up the story line that acts as the frame work for the series. So I would say the fist Highlander movie (with Sean Connery) is critical to watch.
And yes that is Queen that sings the theme song.
I was introduced to the franchise via the series back in '92 and became an instant Highlander fanatic. I own the complete series, and those of the films that I think are worth watching. The first movie is excellent. The second one (with its reimagining of the immortals as aliens from the planet Zeist) is garbage. The third one (which wisely ignores the fact that the second film exists) is watchable, but little more than an inferior rehash of the first. The fourth (Endgame) was pretty good, and did a nice job of bringing the film franchise and series continuities together. The fifth and final film (The Source) was also pretty cool, and left me with an acceptable sense of closure. Of course, the TV series will always be the best, in my opinion. I did think Raven was fun, but not even close to the original series.
Cheers,
Val
Hi(gh)!
Some years ago, I day-dreamed about a Highlander parody under the title of "Afghlander" - the poster showing a Pashtun tribal warrior from the era of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1842), dressed in shalwar-qameez (the traditional Afghan garb consisting of loose pantaloons and long-sleeved knee-length shirt, both usually in khaki-like colours and made of cotton), black waistcoast and voluminous turban, six to eight metres of brown cotton cloth with thin grey vertical stripes. Tall and wiry, with a harsh-featured sun-beaten face, a fist-length black beard and thick shoulder-length hair streaming from beneath his turban, he stands against the backdrop of steep arid hills, leaning on his jezail rifle... and over him the line "AFGHLANDER" in the very same Highlander font!
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
Thanks for posting this Val!
Have fun, The Spaf Man