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    Pretty pumped for the panther head I got from Mario last wknd, but don't have a good picture yet! For now, here's a good'n from Mr. Andy Perez from this past summer.
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    He did, and it's superb, I just happen to have gotten really attached to the old American west/Mexico-themed novels. The Road is fantastic.
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    Nerdy tattoo thread! I push Cormac McCarthy on anyone who'll listen. No Country is a good starter, as is All the Pretty Horses, though it's a bit longer. Currently, I've been really into the hardboiled detective/crime novels from the 40s/50s.. Mickey Spillane, Jim Thompson, Raymond Chandler.. good stuff. And another blog post to follow, I'm sure.
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    Also from Blood Meridian: "War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way." ...ok now I'm just throwing out random paragraphs I've marked.
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    In context, the group left a fire burning behind them and rode up into the mountains where the light of the fire seemed to move and shift, and everyone saw it but said nothing. He is assigning a "will to deceive" to "things luminous" -- fire (, sun, stars... spirit, angels, God even?) -- that through some kind of unspoken deception changes your destiny, because you've already gone past a certain point of no return. And only in retrospect can you realize it. Like when you look back on something and think, "Shit, I can't believe I went this way when I should've gone that way." You've already completed part of the journey, which you'll never get back, which leads you to an end that isn't what should have been. Maybe at the time you thought you were on the right path. He's saying it's more than just chance, that some "luminous thing" you'ved used as a guide has either purposefully led you astray or that it's inherent that it will/can deceive you.
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    There's been a little bit of discussion on song lyric tattoos from a post on Ms.Rad's blog (here:http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/tattooforum/entries/19-song-lyric-tattoos) and I mentioned something about literature-themed tattoos. So I thought I'd share. After pulling out a few books, I realized I'd marked up so many pages that I'd have to do this in parts; Part 1 is all Cormac McCarthy who is, in my opinion, one of the greatest writers of the 20th/21st century and possibly one of the greatest American writers in our country's short history. PM me if you want any suggestions on books.. I'm not an expert just really love Cormac McCarthy. Most quotes I imagine with an image, some with a single word or phrase and image.. From All the Pretty Horses. "Ardenthearted" from: "All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenthearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise." "He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave." "Nothing for the living or the dead" from: "…he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there or perhaps as if to slow the world that was rushing away and seemed to care nothing for the old or the young or rich or poor or dark or pale or he or she. Nothing for their struggles, nothing for their names. Nothing for the living or the dead." From The Crossing "No order save death." One of my favorites, from: "He said that the wolf is a being of great order and that it knows what men do not: that there is no order in the world save that which death has put there." "It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of Him." "Every word we speak is a vanity." From Blood Meridian.. a dense and amazing novel. Possibly the most complex and beautiful and brutal thing I have ever read. "Fraudulent destinies." "For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies." "Spectre horsemen, pale with dust, anonymous in the crenellated heat." "Blood and smoke and gunblack." And finally, a horn with fire, from the dream at the end of No Country for Old Men.. Maybe I should get cracking on these, since I have yet to get any.
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    Dari, how do you sleep after? I think sleeping is the worst part of getting tattooed for me!
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    Panther?????
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    I'd boil it down to a combination of style and attitude. A tattooer's work to get me in the door and how well we get along to keep me coming back. Trouble is, there are so many I still want to get work from it can be tough!
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    I've noticed a recurring theme that kind of revolves around food here. Unless you're Jinxproof and you pump yourself full vicodin and YE OLDE ALE. Epic.
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    Also, can't believe I don't have a dagger and rose. This makes it even better.
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    Tattoo Archive Really like the old rope around the wrists, though I didn't plan ahead and can only do one wrist now. And according to Mario, I have a chest bordered with vaginas! ..which has actually always been the joke since they kinda look like.. ahem, vaginas.
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    song lyric tattoos

    gougetheeyes commented on MsRad's blog entry in Blog MsRad

    Rough.. You'll have to update this when you can cross one lyric off the list.
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    Everything I would've said, only better. I think when women go for the "feminine" looking tattoos, it ends up being that wispy, no outline nonsense when all they needed to do was think a little bit about size and placement.
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    song lyric tattoos

    gougetheeyes commented on MsRad's blog entry in Blog MsRad

    I'll have to make a list like this for literary quotes! The tough thing with both, I think, is to try and distill the line or lines down to bare essentials. There were a few I was thinking of but can only remember one really good (and long) one from Cormac McCarthy, which I've whittled down to a few words. Also, do you want the words to stand alone, or be paired with a design? STILL pondering a Deftones tattoo.. been thinking about this one for literally ten years.
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    "I fed a fish to pelican in Frisco Bay.."
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    I read that as "post-shower beer," which I also agree with 100%. And Frog, I hope your ripping as many farts as I expect you are ahaha
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    Good to keep a well-stocked medicine cabinet for all occasions, tattoo or no.
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    Floors are lookin good! Any fun tiling stuff or just all wood/laminate?
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    beer is medicine
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    When I get tattooed I usually eat something good and filling and show up with a seltzer or coffee or juice or all three. I've been doing this for years now and realized it's become kind of a ritual.. making sure I have enough time, etc. Afterwards, I almost always pick up a single Budweiser tallboy. Got me thinking because I know everyone has their rituals. Mine are more like "things I usually do" rather than rituals, but I really look forward to doing them on tattoo days. Pushups, meditating, any good OCD stuff??
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    Nice! Hard for me not to like anything Poe-related.
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    Hahaa genius! This dude got a tattooed cowboy hotdog in a beach chair with a drink and sunglasses... There was something like EAT ME incorporated, too, but can't remember.
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    Picture! How'd that big one on your leg heal up? Only caught a glimpse of it after you'd decided to go on a run when it was still fresh.
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    Man, thanks for doing these and putting 'em up!
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