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OK, so here's the thing - I have one tattoo on my arm already (of Stereolab's Duophonic label logo - can't find a link online but it's cool, trust me) but it's four years old and I've decided I'm now ready for another one.

But what to get? I know where I want it - near my left shoulderblade - but am a mass of indecision re: the design. I'd like another music-related one, but it'll have to be so obscure that it'll only be recognisable if you're as sad as I am (which people have been). Then again, I'd quite like something like this:

http://www.austindesmond.com/HTM/prints/BritishPrintmakingIndex1/images/RILEY-5.jpg

So, let loose, kids: the only rules are, it has to be black and I'd prefer it to be symmetrical...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 17 January 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

NB I've also considered the spiral thing from this:

http://www.stereolab.co.uk/discography/LP/76/76LPRE11.jpg

...but two 'Lab tats seems a little excessive.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 17 January 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks, you've been most helpful!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 17 January 2004 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

the first bit seems good.

i'm kind of a rockist when it comes to tats so in general am not a good person to ask.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Saturday, 17 January 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck asymmetrical, the new hip tattoos are arthropods.

― TOMBOT, Saturday, 17 January 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.baisoftware.com/brett/latin.gif

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 17 January 2004 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bartse.cx/images/bartse.cx.jpg

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 17 January 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

the rhode island state flag. An anchor in a circle of stars with the word "Hope" underneath. EMO 2 THE MAX!!!

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 17 January 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I am now a postgraduate student. Eek!

― TOMBOT, Saturday, 17 January 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Chuck, didn't you start a thread like this before? Or was that a drunken conversation in a pub? I can't tell any more.

― the river fleet, Saturday, 17 January 2004 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Get a Turbonegro tattoo.

― Allyzay, Saturday, 17 January 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

this didn't go all that well. more than four years later and i still haven't decided!

still thinking i'd like the eye from this though:

http://www.mattscdsingles.com/acatalog/14975.jpg

― CharlieNo4, Saturday, 21 June 2008 15:25 (seventeen years ago)

(the one on the left obv)

― CharlieNo4, Saturday, 21 June 2008 15:26 (seventeen years ago)

some woman in the shop had two ghastly CAT tats. i mean, i'm ok with cats, i'm also more than ok with tats, but the depictions were just NOOO.

― stevienixed, Saturday, 21 June 2008 15:27 (seventeen years ago)

It recently occured to me to get a tupac-imatation 'Lush Life' tattoo on my abs (haha! I don't have abs) because it's one of my favorite songs.

― Oilyrags, Saturday, 21 June 2008 18:14 (seventeen years ago)

Martini glass in place of the bullet, of course.

― Oilyrags, Saturday, 21 June 2008 18:15 (seventeen years ago)

Also because I love to drink.

― Oilyrags, Saturday, 21 June 2008 18:15 (seventeen years ago)

No tattoos are the new tattoos.

― Bodrick III, Saturday, 21 June 2008 19:32 (seventeen years ago)

I can't help thinking you don't really want ilx's advice so much as you want ilx's approval. Just get on with it.

― Aimless, Saturday, 21 June 2008 20:14 (seventeen years ago)

You mean that we have given said approval already?

― libcrypt, Sunday, 22 June 2008 01:55 (seventeen years ago)

http://planescape.outshine.com/crap.planescape-torment.org/images/tattoo6.jpg

or even

http://static.bethsoft.com/blog/tattoo.jpg

― kingfish, Sunday, 22 June 2008 03:39 (seventeen years ago)

I'm well into tattoos, they are extremely beautiful if well done. I'm still deciding on mine but its going to be gorgeous.
Get this; http://www.sanctuarytattoo.com/chris/images/blackngrey/godfather.jpg
OR THIS
http://www.tattoogarage.com/artists/chris/website/tattoo_garage_back_tony_montana_scarface.jpg

and I'll start up your fan club.

― VeronaInTheClub, Sunday, 22 June 2008 14:15 (seventeen years ago)

is there one of deniro in 'meet the parents' on that guy's ass?

― akm, Sunday, 22 June 2008 15:10 (seventeen years ago)

Yes, and a tattoo of this Pacino shot on the other cheek:

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c242/xenogias/alpacino.jpg

― B.L.A.M., Sunday, 22 June 2008 15:47 (seventeen years ago)

hahahah.lol.meet the parents.

― csa, Sunday, 22 June 2008 15:48 (seventeen years ago)

i like tattoos, but i could never decide what to get and now i'm kind of too old to get one.

― rockapads, Sunday, 22 June 2008 18:18 (seventeen years ago)

How about a butt, with a butt-shape tattoo on it. And you should put it right on your butt.

― Pillbox, Sunday, 22 June 2008 18:33 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.foundshit.com/pictures/design/first-corinthians-back-tattoo.jpg

― rockapads, Sunday, 22 June 2008 18:34 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.wackyarchives.com/bizarre/hello-kitty-ftw.html

― StanM, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:55 (seventeen years ago)

i always liked the idea of a toxic orange 45 spider over my heart, then I saw a guy who had one on his neck in the center of a sunburst and figured it had already been done, so fuckit.

Also, why can i not find any pictures of 45 spiders on the internet? Somebody has to have a blog devoted to those things, right?

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:00 (seventeen years ago)

Hai look guyz. I have a cute Hello Kitty on my forehead. I know it's cute, but 'cause I'm really kind of scary guy, it makes me a lot more scarier. You like it, don't you??

― libcrypt, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:23 (seventeen years ago)

Oh man, Oilyrags, Lush Life is one of my favorites too (esp. Strayhorn singing it) but if I was working in an ER and found someone w/that tat, I'd put them on suicide watch. I mean, fuck Gloomy Sunday, Strayhorn makes the folks in the jazz club pull out the tiny cyanide pills from their stealth cufflinks and drown them, and their horrible lives, with whatever's left of a sloe gin fizz.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:01 (seventeen years ago)

Exactly! What part of that doesn't sound like me?

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:12 (seventeen years ago)

OK, I'd be drinking martinis or rye&ginger maybe.

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:12 (seventeen years ago)

Stay alive!

― Abbott, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:13 (seventeen years ago)

Cyanide ruins the taste of martinis.

― Michael White, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:14 (seventeen years ago)

Hey Abbott - would you rather have a drawing of a bulldog getting a barber shave or a long-nosed hound wearing a bob wig?

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:16 (seventeen years ago)

This life-affirming injunction brought to you courtesy of Abbott and the BeeGees. xp

― Aimless, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:16 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

http://www.theginblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/kill-ray-romano.jpg

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Saturday, 6 December 2008 19:51 (seventeen years ago)

i like how thats addressed to ray romano

― deej, Saturday, 6 December 2008 19:58 (seventeen years ago)

directly

― deej, Saturday, 6 December 2008 19:58 (seventeen years ago)

it was a "let's get the worst tattoos we can think of" thing, apparently:

http://www.style.com/stylefile/2008/05/warning-think-before-you-ink/ (second reply)

and the first (and only) reply to this blog post is by the guy who did it:

http://www.zentastic.com/blog/2005/04/18/not-everybody-loves-raymond/

― StanM, Saturday, 6 December 2008 20:06 (seventeen years ago)

Really quite shameful to have Copperplate/Bank Gothic perm on you.

― ＰＡＮＴＹＭＡＮ (libcrypt), Saturday, 6 December 2008 20:33 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3128/2714877063_18330612e7.jpg

― StanM, Saturday, 6 December 2008 21:14 (seventeen years ago)

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