Oh, missed Jeannum's photo. Yes, that's OK, sort of in an "Oliver Reed angry-with-the-world" way.
Love that description! I have "grand plans" to grow my beard that full, but it ends up killing my "heroic" jawline and makes my face look lumpen and unfit. I'm not Brad Pitt to begin with, so adding tons of grey hair to my already unprepossessing mug sure ain't the solution.
Thanks Tone for the Koechlin link. Must explore that further. He does have a REALLY big unkempt beard in that first picture, doesn't he? That's the kind of facial hair that I'd rather avoid sprouting. If I were a natural eccentric, or immensely talented like Koechlin, I might get away with it. But as a run-of-the-mill unimaginative everyday Joe, people would just think I'd gone mad if I started to cultivate that wild look.
I wonder though if having a beard that mad actually helps one become more brilliant... has anyone got first-hand experience of that?
I wonder if Antoine Duhamel has ever been asked about finding his morning bath-plug full of the previous evening's dinner. That's really back to what I was initially asking at the start of the thread. It would be a good question at a film music concert.
Yeah, since I was about 20, I found some photos from the late 70's where I had a fantastic beard, real hillbilly stuff, & tons of hair (& a flat stomach!). Now it's more like a House MD job, about a weeks growth.
ToneRow WILL be pleased. From where I'm sitting we're now on Page 2, whilst his lofty topics about foreign composers with funny names (and sometimes even funnier beards) languish abandoned.
One of my parents thinks I look better with the beard and is constantly telling me to grow it out, and the other thinks I look better without and advises me to shave it.
Of course, the one who thinks I'm better off without has had his own beard for more years than I've been alive.
As I said earlier in this thread, I've had a beard (tee hee) since 2010 and a couple of years ago when I shaved it (it grows back in two weeks anyway), the people at work--even those who dislike facial hair--thought it was better that I let it grow back. Maybe it's because it covers more of the meeurgh that is my face.
Oh, and another reason I posted that Bearded Trio link is because it reminded me of a few years ago when I shaved the beard off. Later that very morning I was watching the bonus disc of the Indiana Jones Trilogy and after seeing bearded George, bearded Steven, and bearded John I knew I had made an egregious error in shaving my face!
TO JIM- I see,but the dictionary has a couple of other meanings giving to that word-any beardlike part as of certain animals.---2-anything that projects like a beard as a barb or hook.So couldn't somebody have a beard like look on top of their head or on the lower part of their body[ha-ha]
