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Monday, July 13

I'm not a huge fan of tattoo's, so many of them just seem ridiculous to me

ie text tattoo's where you can't even read what the writing says because it's all ridiculously swirly and elaborate
tattoo's concerning current popular culture ie transformers and hello kitty, OH HEY I'M A CONSUMER AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT IT
tattoo's of cupcakes? what?
and diamonds - I don't understand the diamonds thing! what do diamonds represent? is it the whole ~diamonds are forever~ thing? I don't understand! where did this come from?
I don't understand the concept of getting a pin up girl tattooed on you either - what is that supposed to mean for you as an individual? do you really want to see her every single day for the rest of your life? seriously if I had to see some ficticious bikini babe every day of my life I would slowly resent her for being so damn useless and unecessary. what is a pin up girl going to do for your life? why is that important to you? I am more than willing to be proved wrong here.

ANYWAY. here are some tattoo's I do like:

- catcher in the rye

- alice in wonderland (this is a tatto I saved for liam)

- calvin and hobbes (also a tattoo I saved for liam, I don't necessarily like this one much)

- from the film 'my friend totoro'

- alice in wonderland

and my MOST favourite tattoo of all time! it's a reference to extremely loud and incredibly close by jonathan safran foer but it's hard to understand without having read the book.

3 comments:

Jessica said...: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BKp3vfYWi7M/SlsfM3JFbdI/AAAAAAAAAEE/0ugNBkv7Szc/s1600-h/were+all+mad+here.jpg

i would appreciate if you would either credit my photo/tattoo or remove it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/xxtoxicstar/

thanks.; March 29, 2011 at 6:43 PM
ecooper said...: sooo...i've read extremely loud an incredibly close, but i don't get that tattoo. can you explain it to me? clearly i need to read the book again haha; December 2, 2011 at 4:53 PM
alyssa said...: it represents the rectangles of red tape designating "Nothing Places".

"...we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we never would look at the marked-off zones, that they would be nonexistent territories in the apartment in which one could temporarily cease to exist."; January 4, 2012 at 1:28 PM

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everything is illuminated

They made for themselves a sanctuary from Trachimbrod, a habitat completely unlike the rest of the world. No hateful words were ever spoken, and no hands raised. More than that, no angry words were ever spoken, and nothing was denied. But more than that, no unloving words were ever spoken, and everything was held up as another small piece of proof that it can be this way, it doesn't have to be that way; if there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it heavy walls, and we will furnish it with soft red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweler's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.