re: Why is Jesus always depicted with long flowing hair?

He was the original long-haired freak: he quit his job, grew his hair out and his beard, dropped out of Square Society, preached Love, drank wine and ate bread from wheat containing "Claviceps tulasne (purpurea), the ergot mould, in which ergoline alkaloids, mainly derivatives of lysergic acid, can be found."

That's my Messiah!