this summer is flying in conflicting ways. it's mostly true that when the time passes swiftly, you've probably had some good times. and this isn't off at all, but i've been combining all of the fun with lots of consuming personal business. mostly trying to find a place to live and helping to coordinate the ClitFest here in Chicago. i found a place to live, more on that later (yo steve, we're neighbors and my love of Alice in Wonderland is foaming at the lips with the results) and ClitFest is turning out great. more on that later too. but in the spaces between...
billy "fixed" my junk ass chris kenyon tribute tattoo. this was taken from a watercolor chris painted for me a couple years before he died. it healed horribly and was, well, i'll just say it could've been done better. but here it is now...
and he finished this piece. (brownishness is from the blood). p.s. my favorite tattoo. we had so many ideas for grim reaper flash...grim reaper with a newborn, grim reaper holding balloons, grim reaper and a cat....but i was pissed and pissing on love and nothing says "what a joke" more that death holding out a pretty flower for you.
(laughing with matt the other night, saying that when i die people will think i had one dismal existence with all these dismal tattoos. guess it's best to get it out of my system this way than to be a raging downer) life trap came through chicago again.
first time i saw them was at no way fest and i was torn because it was the first time i saw a band that felt like the internet gave birth to them. studied "moves", studied "lyrics", etc. but there was no denying that it sounded like there was some potential to grow into their own.
they grew into there own.
it doesn't hurt when you have this guy in playing guitar for you. NEVER seen someone in a hardcore band play with this kind of ball-breaking vigor (maybe jelen?). this kid LOVES to play guitar at something like 720 notes per minute.
on the dismal tattoo front, found the old Bolt Thrower design that i want tattooed on me. there are versions of this shirt that say "INSANITY PREVAILS" on the back and i'm mentally mapping out this huggable little guy with insanity prevails hanging over his head or something. hopefully on the front of my thigh.
finding this shirt put me an an ebay hunt and lo and behold the goddamn Fleshloop 7" is up there. i'd pay an embarrassing amount of money for it. and here's some guys blog about it. http://mcdrunk.blogspot.com/2008/03/loopflesh-fleshloop-like-rats-straight.htmlhmmmm, strange connection with his plug for the loss of sanity. a lost member of my tribe i guess?
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand wizard cow.
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