mark hart's elixir of eternal life!

Gotta be the american subshine !!!

It mustn't be the same American sunshine that I am getting.

i think it's his bone structure and the fact that he just seems naturally trim.

plus--your attitude goes a long way in knocking years off of your face. if you seem young at heart and enthusiastic (and have a killer smile ) you just seem younger

There must be a certain portrait hanging in his study at home....

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Originally posted by PaulV:
There must be a certain portrait hanging in his study at home....

Oh, my gosh. You're brilliant!



My quip about Mark's youthful appearance was that the Fountain of Youth that the Spanish were trying to find was actually located in Kansas.

yea--but that portrait was a reflection of the ugliness of the soul--surely mark wouldn't have such a portrait!!

The other thing is that Mark's brother Kelly is a doctor, but I never did find out what kind of doctor he is. Perhaps he was a plastic surgeon giving Mark freebies.

But I'm only joking. (Except for the true part about his brother being a doctor.)

I'm totally on the LOVE mark hart BOAT. He looked soooooo psyched in the clips I've seen and seems so relaxed with everything. So yeah -- I think the attitude = beautitude.

Can't wait to see them....ummmm yeah that is when they finally annouce the 'real' tour dates

LOL at the Dorian Grey reference...although that is seriously creepy! I don't think his protrait would be terrible though...I have a podcast intervew with him, and he seems like quite a clean living kind of guy (and also from reading the soemthing so strong book...bus jogging and oatmeal anyone?)

I agree -- very clever/brilliant response, Paul! We might as well take this thread no further for not being able to top that reference.

I think the main reason why people may have been shocked that Mark has barely aged over the last 10 years is that he has not really been so much in the public eye over this time (true he had a solo album out about 5 years ago). What really helps is that Mark hasn't gone grey (whether that's natural or dyed I don't know) and he still has a full head of hair.

Whereas Neil IMO seemed to age around about the time of the second Finn Brothers album (don't get me wrong I think he still looks terrific for his age - doing something that you enjoy for a living tends to do that for you).

Like Neil and definitely Mark, I also think that Nick looks younger than he is, but he has not really been in the public eye so much over the past 10 years, so it's quite natural that he should look older. Plus Nick's hair has receeded a bit and that tends to add a few years (I think it may have been starting to receed at about the time of FTTW, which may have been why he bleached it for a while).

Personally I reckon that with his bespectacled look, Mark actually looks a bit like mild mannered reporter Clark Kent, could he in fact change from mild mannered Mark Hart musician par excellence into Superman, fighting crime in the areas that CH visit (I'll stop this now as it's getting very silly).

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Originally posted by Azzza:

Personally I reckon that with his bespectacled look, Mark actually looks a bit like mild mannered reporter Clark Kent, could he in fact change from mild mannered Mark Hart musician par excellence into Superman, fighting crime in the areas that CH visit (I'll stop this now as it's getting very silly).

Oh, I'm so glad someone said that... every now and again during that webcast I kept thinking that and I thought... must only be me or someone would have mentioned it.

But maybe that's really his secret?! Hehe!


No - really I don't know, but the lack of grey hair helps I guess - close up pictures of Tim always make me think he looks so much younger in his face than his hair gives the impression(though I do like his hair at the moment).

Vegemite!

Long time fan, but quite new to their concerts - I couldn't help but be drawn to Mark Hart. I found his quiet manner very alluring and therefore did a little research to find he is actually 3 years older than me ! What a handsome man ! I found myself looking for a wedding ring despite myself and the fact I should know better.............

The thing about Mark Hart is that, aside from his hair and glasses (hair was bushy, glasses were HUGE), he looked about the same back in 1988. So he's probably looked around 40 his whole life; it's just that now he's on the other side of 40 and, at 50, looking 40 is a good thing.