What did your last sent text message say?
Eye, H8, “ff 0 nn zz”

How is your day?
Apples.

Do you remember your last kiss?
Yes. Need to update the answer to that. It's currently poor.

What did you do today?
E-mails, guitar, music, writing (the paper and pen kind), coffee ...

Do you miss the past?
No. I miss the future (fuckers)

What are you listening too?
Birdflesh was on. Now Clarence J Boddicker.

Are you excited for anything?
Brutal Truth on the the 21^st. Recording for the album. Should be excited for Christmas but I don't give a shit.

Have you ever broken anyones heart?
Yes. Avoiding that happening again though.

Who did you last talk to on the phone?
The guy from Explore Music called to tell my brother his The 69 Eyes CD 'Angels' came in.

What are you doing this week?
Grind, noise, drone, job hunt, coffee, drawing, new series, the usual. End it off with being a mess I believe.

Do you know anyone who smokes?
Lots.

Do you think eye contact is weird?
It is when I'm conscious of it.

Are you serious?
Yes. Although I'm often sarcastic.

What kind girl/guy do you go for?
I have a few boxes they need to tick, the people who do are often extremely different though.

Are you a good person?
According to the Bible I'm going to hell for sure. According to the law I'm in the shit a little as well. I think I'm alright though.

Do you like anyone?
Yeah. It's a little frustrating.

When was the last time you got into a fight with somebody?
Joke ones all the time. Serious ones seem to be on going.

Who do you trust the most?
No comment.

Have you ever had your feelings crushed?
Yep.

Do you flirt a lot?
Yes. More for humors sake though.

What was the last thing you put in your mouth?
Water or a mint.

When was the last time you drank?
The obituary gig. I drank a lot.

When was the last time you cried?
No comment.

Is there a song that makes you upset about someone?
Not that I can think of.

Honestly,how is your heart lately?
Physically fine. Metaphorically a little itchy.

Who was the last person you saw?
Mum just got home.

Whats one thing you can't stand?
A pencil. Serious answer snoring.

Have you ever lost a close friend?
Yes. Just not to death.

Does anyone hate you?
Yepo!

What was your worst day ever?
No comment.

Can you last a relationship longer than 3 months?
In theory.

Where did you sleep last night?
Bed. Very poorly though.

Do a lot of your friends know your full name?
With facebook everybody seems to know everybody's name. I'm always curious now as to weather I should know certain peoples though when I don't.

Have you ever disliked someone by association?
Often.

Who were you with the last time you went to church?
A wedding years ago with people I now know nothing about.

If you could transform into any animal at will, what would you turn into?
Polar bear. Totally white with black eyes. Only other colour is red when you tear something apart. How graphic (graphic pun).

What color was the last scarf you wore?
Dark brown.

Do you trade in your recyclables for money?
No.

Do you know a couple where the girl is taller than the guy in the relationship?
Not that I can think of … oh, actually yes.

What was the last thing you got pierced?
Leg with a stapler count? Other than that my arm or chest.

Who was the last person that told you they had a confession to make?
I said something like that recently, and a friend said something like “can I ask you something” but that's about as close as it gets.

Ever gotten in trouble in school for perjury?
Promised not to use the internet correctly and we had to sign this thing, but I still went on myspace, I was doing work though (seriously!).

Do you have any friends that were adopted?
Yes. Although her friend may be in denial that she was adopted.

Have you ever slept past your alarm?
No. I just turn it off then sleep. It has never failed to wake me up though.

How did you get into surveying?
Boredlyness.

Have you ever been kissed under fireworks?
No. Sounds kind of cool though.

Do you know how to waltz?
I could probably remember pretty quick.

Have you ever taken part in a cotillion?
No.

What's larger, the number of letters in your full name or your age?
Full name.

Has anyone ever served you breakfast in bed?
Maybe when I was ill at some point.

Does your best friend wear glasses?
Only aesthetically.

Ever won an award?

Only in high school.

How old were you when you started wearing makeup?
No comment.

Do you go to another place other than Starbucks for your coffee fix?
Never been, but apparently it's rubbish (in Australia anyway).

Have you ever experienced a blizzard?
Yep

Is the television in your living room a flat screen?
Yep

Where did you get the last pair of flipflops you wore?
Gift maybe. I don't remember paying for them.

What are you going to do after this?
Play music, watch a DVD if there's nothing on TV, cook dinner, draw, the usual. More excitingly though I'm going to start work on a new series!

I only acquaint myself with a few people, and the list is shrinking it seems. The few people I consider friends though I do really value. This is by one of those rare people. We traded entries with each other, for a little release, to put a little pressure on our writing, and at the end of the day just a bit of fun.
Before you read I want to say firstly thank you. To everyone as a reader though, I want to tell you that this is try 5 or something. She wrote some she wasn't happy with and one I said not to post, but we got there in the end. So enjoi.

I have a beautiful collection of weaknesses. I like them very much. My greatest weakness is that I like all the things that don’t matter. I fall in love with all the things that, essentially, won’t last. I fall in love with the sound a mouth makes when it opens to say something, but stops itself; a shared silence. I fall in love with the bird that will fly for the sake of flight, not scavenging for food or looking for a partner. The act of doing something, that in essence is nothing at all. This weakness for the things that don't matter is perhaps why I never hold onto happiness; my heart is always breaking. Happiness is just not my weakness. No, indeed. My weakness is the quiet, empty abyss of nothing.

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Tattoos have become in recent years a fashion item, the latest trend. Styles are coming out that are new and exciting from true artists, but that is far less common than the complete opposite. People who simply own a tattoo machine who'll do anything they're asked to do, and people going into tattoo shops thinking that's the normal thing.

The Authent/ink section of Australian Ink magazine written by Kian Forreal (he works out of Inner Vision Sydney) had the whole section dedicated to this topic. He talks about stealing tattooers exact designs as being plagiarism and hurting the industry by “diluting it with crappy art”. My thinking on this is a little conflicted. I get what he's saying about ripping off tattoo artists, and personally I would never get a tattoo because somebody else had it.

Something like people getting imagery from films or artwork isn't so different though really. An Ed Hardy style dragon not done by Ed Hardy is a little bullshit, but that art was taken from Horiyoshi III and other tattoo artists, and there art was taken from centuries of old tradition. You can't exactly get a tattoo from Sailor Jerry, but you can get the art done on you in most shops. That art in particular is often just taken and copied to the body.

Kian is pretty true to his statement with what he is doing though, and he has taken the time to study within his style. When there's tradition though, nothing is really original.

For me, I would never get anything that I know has been put on someone else's body, but I can see the appeal of knowing it will turn out right. I'm wouldn't be as conflicted for myself or someone else to take art from another source and put it on their body though. There are so many people with tattoos from Nightmare Before Christmas, or of Mario, or from a graphic artist outside of tattooing like Simone Legno (Tokidoki). I don't think it's that bad a thing if you've made a connection to something so get it tattooed, or even if you just like the art. But if you're going to a “tattoo artist” you want to use their artistic skills hopefully and not just their technical ability. Most cases though it's just the fact they're the guy with the tattoo machine.

My ideas draw on things I've come across in and out of tattooing. I certainly don't want a copy of a tattoo that I've already seen though, even if I may like the tattoo. I have considered getting direct references to things I really like and don't have an issue with others doing that. I will stop here though because my tattoo idea/ideas (won't give that away either) is something I don't intend to ever show off(or get any time soon because I have no money and other priorities).

This is the P.S type section where I just want to say something on the meaning of tattoos. If you like the look of a fairy get a fairy. There doesn't need to be more to it than that. All the TV shows have hyped the meaning aspect so much. In an interview with Ami was saying how fake the show was and how often the meanings were totally fabricated to fit the flow of a show, but how he himself just liked the artwork and so got himself a dragon when he was young.

Tattoo for your own reasons, and “it's fucking sweet” is a good enough reason. But the rest of the blog is about if you actually give a shit about tattooing as a subject, which if you are getting tattooed, maybe you should think a little about.