Smiles A Lot

Yesterday morning (approximately 8:40am) on my way to school, I found myself behind a guy on his bike. He wore baggy, wide-legged jeans and an over-sized sweatshirt, slouched terribly, and smoked (yes, while riding his bike). I cringed when I saw him light up at the stoplight and then tried to wave the smoke out of my face as I rode behind him. But as disgusting as that was, and as obvious as it was that he was just "some punk kid," I couldn't take my eyes off him. In fact, if we'd stopped side-by-side at a stoplight, I might have found it very difficult to resist touching

his hair.
Silky blackness down to the middle of his back.
That's what I'm talking about.

I don't pay much attention to looks. I'm not really *attracted* to someone until I know them, and by then they can be any size or shape and it won't matter. So if ever asked by other girls what my "type" is or faced with the question by those silly girlie-quizzes and magazines that no one takes seriously but does for fun anyway, I was always at a loss. But I realized yesterday, riding my bike behind Stupid Gaki Smoker, I've always been a sucker for long, dark hair. Later in the day I saw another guy in the library with similar hair and couldn't take my eyes off him either. Maybe if more Japanese people just left their hair alone, didn't colour it or style it or cut it crazily, but just let it grow, I wouldn't find their notion of "attractive" so unattractive.

And you know whose fault I think it is?
His, specifically the second picture from the left, top row.
That's Nathan Lee Chasing Horse (also "Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse," "Nathan Chasing Horse" &c) and he played Smiles A Lot (the Lakota kid who had maybe 3 lines, attempted to steal Dunbar's horse, and then found Dunbar's diary) in Dances With Wolves. I finally saw the movie when I was 11, in Ms. Beaven's Texas History class, so by then he was actually 18 in real life, but in the movie I guess he's 13 or 14. Anyway, I liked the movie alot (though I hate Kevin Costner), and Nathan Lee Chasing Horse became my first and really only (I strayed for just a short while when I was 12) celebrity/movie star crush... except that he's not really a celebrity... or a movie star, seeing as how he's only been in 4 productions, two of which were made-for-tv and one of which was a miniseries. So basically any claim to fame he has is the picture mentioned above.

I think I read somewhere that he didn't act much because he wasn't interested in propagating the stereotypical noble savage/oral storyteller-shaman image of Native Americans. Instead I think he travels and speaks to promote the no-drugs-or-alcohol lifestyle he lives within Native American communities (which suffer from gambling, drugs, and alcoholism). Pretty cool, I think... if it's true. I'm not good enough at internet searching to really know anything about him.

So yeah, anyway. Long, dark hair. Two thumbs up.