People I've Been Told I Resemble

[shanmonster]

I think the people who think this are on crack! I don't see the resemblance at all, for most of these separated-at-birth constructions, and some of the comparisons are significantly less than flattering.

• Lisa Gerrard
• Yoko Ono
• Buffy Sainte-Marie
• Cher
• Shannen Doherty
• Kate Bush
• The Columbia Pictures chickie
• Sook-Yin Lee

Comments

[fiachra.livejournal.com]

Don't forget Greta Garbo in that one pic Hazel took years ago. I still have a thumbnail of it in my little "Friends from Canada" collage she made me in '00.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I'd forgotten about that! Do you have a digital copy of it? I don't think I have one. If I did, it must have been destroyed when my computer was afflicted with a virus a few years back.

[fiachra.livejournal.com]

I can bring the frame home and scan the picture, my scanner can turn a contact-sheet sized print into a full-screen scan easily. :^)

[purrthecat.livejournal.com]

Well, there's not an ugly one among them, so I'd take them all as compliments! :)

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Danke! I think the closest resemblance is Yoko, though. And certain pictures I've seen of Kate Bush, but not her in general.

[firelie.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'd say you look like a cross between Yoko Ono and Kate Bush. If you looked more asian I'd leave it at Yoko Ono, though.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

There are times when I look very Asian. I have almond-shaped eyes and an Innu ancestry. Innu and Japanese are the same racial stock. Every now and then, I'll get a Chinese, a Japanese, or once, a Filipino speaking with me in their native language. It's pretty weird, because I don't think I look that Asian.

When I first started working at a comics shop, years ago, a regular customer said to the manager, "That new girl, there. Is she coloured?"

That still makes me laugh. I'm really very pale-skinned....

[ladyiolanthe.livejournal.com]

Don't forget people used to mistake me for you. So... the inverse is that you must look a bit like me. ;D

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

That's true!

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

I really hate it when people see a person
with long hair and then make a comparison
to whatever other person with long hair
they happen to have on the brain at the
time. People used to tell me I looked,
"Like that guy in Metallica," except they
could never tell me *which* guy.

I'm surprised no one has compared you to
Mata Hari, yet. Haven't you gotten some
Morticia comments, too?

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Nope! No Mata Hari or Morticia comments.

Although now that I think about it, I've had several people compare me to Neil Gaiman's Death.

[liquid-quaalude.livejournal.com]

heh I always got am I mixed black and white. Iam a very light skinned almost 100% cuban, but I have the craziest nappy hair and in high school I used to not use product on it for a bit and it looked like a fro so i used to get from the black girls at school "is your mama or daddy black?" lol

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

People often assume I'm from "somewhere else" because I have vaguely exotic features. I think maybe I should have been a spy, because people from the Middle East and Asia often take me as one of their countrymen.

[sorceror.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! :D

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[fourcorners.livejournal.com]

Shannen Doherty's hot. that's a flattering compliment

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I think she's a mutant. One of her eyes is about a full inch higher than the other. Take a look at any front-on photo you can find of her. There aren't many. They're almost all 3/4 views with her head tilted to soften the deformity.