The Adnostic

Marbella was wonderful. We had an amazing time and although I'm not sure how much of it I will blog about, we did take lots of pictures, which you can see here and here.

One of the nice parts of being in Spain was being able to open a bottle of wine and sit down in front of the TV and take in the Spanish, English, and German broadcasts. I tortured my fellow travelers with a night of Grand Prix Show Jumping until 2am one evening, we all sat down for a sumo tournament another evening because what other opportunity were we going to have to watch sumo (which is particularly entertaining in slow motion in an I-can't-look-away-from-the-disgusting-waves-of-blubber kind of way), but the most entertaining foreign show of all had to be Celebrity Scissorhands.

A bunch of D-list celebrities with two weeks of training cut hair and practice beauty treatments with little to no supervision in a studio/salon located in the BBC 3 building. Where and how they got the people willing to victimize themselves for a haircut was beyond my level of comprehension.

There was one trainee, Steve Strange, former 80's New Wave rocker/bloated heroine addict who was by far our party's favorite. His haircuts were so atrociously bad that he made one poor girl cry and the salon "supervisor" called a haircut a la Steve as getting "Stranged." He would create bald spots with nothing more than a little pair of scissors and a set of shaking hands. You would watch him meticulously weedwack his clients' coifs into submission and be completely unable to look away as you cringe in empathy for the poor thing in the chair as the announcer calmly narrates how it has been two hours since the person first sat down.

It was glorious.

Yvonne can't wait until the American version is eventually broadcast. She's already picking out whom she wants to see be the US version of her beloved Steve Strange. Courtney Love is at the top of her list. I personally would love to see Rob Schnieder give it a go. I think he would funny and level of irony that the sight of him working in a solon would bring to the table would be priceless. Unfortunately he may still have too much of a career to be considered D-list enough for the show.

Just you wait. I'm telling you that it's the next big thing.