hair cut

well, i've posted here before and everyone is very helpful and im stuck again. Well my hair is very curly and very bushy. Its past my shoulders in the back, an inch or 2 below my ears on the sides, and in my eyes in the front. so lately i've been thinking about cutting it fairly short, but im just not sure how short to go. I know if i go to short it will spring up because it wont be weighed down enough, but if i dont cut it short enough it willjust grow back in a few days. Whenever i go for trims i always get about 1/2 inch cut off all around, but thats just not enough. i was thinking 2-3 inches in the back, an inch on the sides and 1/2 inch in the front. would that be safe for me to do without my hair springing/poofing up? could i do more? i've acually kind of been thinking about going as short as the singer from a band i like called silverstein, but his hair is very straight. thanks guys
~Tom

Mmm...not sure.  Maybe look for photos of celebrities that have a similar hair type to yours (um, Justin Timberlake?  Adam Brody?) and see what they've done with it, whether that works well and whether any of them have anything like what you want?

I think you should probably be able to achieve the look you want with the crafty use of some good products!

Anyway, good luck, I hope it all works out nicely.