November 30, 2005
Local Filmmaker Takes to the Streets to Make the (Upper)Lip Hip Again
We're not that in to the mustache sans beard. Sure, when accompanied by other facial hair it's okay...but the solo 'stache is just creepy for some reason. But whether we like it or not, the mustache is making a comeback this December.
Filmmaker Jay Della Valle will host the independent premiere of The Glorius Mustache Challenge, a documentary that dares men under 30 to grow a mustache for one month.
The rules of the challenge:
1) Mustaches ONLY: no beards, goatees, or flavor tasters.
2) No trimming it so short that no one can tell you have one.
3) No staying inside your house or apartment for one month because you're afraid of people seeing you and making fun of you.
4) Don't let your stache go to waste. You may never have one again.
Why is it ok for certain men to have the mustache? Why do mainly older men, particularly police, perverts, and uncles, have mustaches? These are the essential questions asked in the film. The participants risk being ostracized, excluded, and ridiculed by girls, friends, co-workers, and even family all in the name of their upper lip's mustachial right to grow facial hair.
We have to ask though, is this really a challenge? Every hipster and hipster wannabe below 14th Street has at some time or another sported the solo 'stache as some sort of ironic fashion statement. Especially the one's in bands. So is this film a challenge, or just one more example of hipster culture creeping in to our lives? Either way, start growing yours now in anticipation of the December 15th premiere at Crash Mansion (8pm)! You too ladies, put down that bleaching cream.
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hmmm...this challenge is a bit late. i'm already 2 weeks into a pretty nasty stache for the "mustaches for kids" charity.
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yes, it's real.
Didn't we learn the lessons of the 70s-moustaches aren't flattering on anyone and generally look like a remnant of a scary porn set.
You know, I was just watching some Magnum PIs on DVD, and I found it interesting how Tom Selleck was so simultaneously gross and cheesy yet kind of hot in this way I would admit to no one in real life.
When will the media learn that these things -aren't- cool?
I'm not sure at what point these sappy dorks and pants-wetting geeks became the statements of "cool" and "style", but I think the 'stach-competition is just another low point in years and years of region-wide crappiness.
Just try to look one of these people in the eye - they look away in a second. What hot confidence!
Dont forget about men with cleft pallette scars - and of course-
Germans!
Murrt- why you staring at moustachiod men? Although snark aside, you should know the definition of cool by now:
"those who know nothing but seem to know everyone and are easily seperated from their wallets."
So you aren't a teenager anymore- say thanks.