<SMALL>Hey Jim, you ever ran into Enigma in Austin?? Now, there's a guy who better not get any second thoughts about getting his tattooes!</SMALL>
One Thursday at Joveta's Cornell had his son's for dinner before the gig and Katz and Enigma sat down at their table. Miss Debbie had an interesting moment listening to that discription from young boys.
I have never pondered anything longer that what kind of tatoo to get once I made up my mind to do it. Going 50 years without one gave me a lot of time to think about it. I have a Japanease/Chinese symble on me left shoulder that means "lucky" in Chinese and "Prosperous" in Japanease. It is very symetrical and I think looks great. I'm proud of it because I have never seen this on anyone else. After looking for months in tatoo parlors as I casually encountered them I realized that most all of this stuff comes from Tatoo Central. The art looks all the same. I mean from here to Hawaii. No way do I want something that I'm sure several hundred thousand people already have. Its kinda like having a kid on purpose instead of by accident.
Not a tattoo, but, I've concidered having an image of the front view of a Pedal Steel Guitar shaved into the back of my head (think crew-cut/flat-top) the day before the next steel show I attend.
I think this would be Kewl!
A few years ago, when I was in college, a bunch of us were at Braum's (Who says nothing good comes from Oklahoma?) having some ice cream. The conversation turned to tattoos, and a lot of the girls were talking about getting them. I said, "It looks to me like y'all could think of less painful ways to look cheap than getting a tattoo." That got a lot of mixed looks!
My sister,who's a world class oil portriat artist among other things,used to have a boyfriend back in the 80s who was heavily tattooed and she got into it for a while as a tattoo artist herself. At a tattoo convention once she introduced me to a guy who had a large photorealistic piece on his chest of a skeleton in a Hawaiian shirt playing a two-tone ZB D-10. The attention to detail was amazing and it was the coolest tat I've seen before or since. I've considered getting a tattoo a few times but could never settle on something that I could be sure was "future-proof". -MJ-
I don't think you're allowed to be a mechanic these days, unless your arms are covered with tatoos. This fad, (for the kids at least) must've somehow come out of the punk-era, and popularized by MTV. It's amazing to me that it's morphed into something so maintstream. When I see a beautiful woman with a big old tatoo on her arm, or back, it makes me sad.
What gets me is that the kids' attempts to be unique often results in them being just like everyone else.
Around here, the owners of barbed-wire tattoes around the upper arm think the message it sends is "I'm a wild rebel", when in fact it actually just says "I'm just another clone born around 1980".
-John
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