Olde Friends

[Content Disclosure: Relationships, Love, Marriage, Life and General Human-like Goofiness]

I'll wait for you

And should I fall behind

Wait for me

Springstein

I have these two friends. I met them in 1971 when they were a new couple. They did typical 20 year old kid stuff, like arguing about nothing and fighting about air. He slept on my couch half a dozen times when he couldn't or wouldn't go home. I was at their wedding in 1975 but turned down any official position in the wedding party. I thought I might be needed to referee.

They moved. I moved. Diana visited me in Hermosa Beach in 1985, a couple of years after their divorce. She was older, wiser and still had no clue why she and Paul were either at each others throats or genitals with nothing in between. She had always been the stable one in those early years, at least that was my perspective, but then again, she never got booted to my divan.

I saw Paul several times in the 90s, he had a new wife and then he didn't. But in both cases he talked about Diana. I heard they made an abbreviated attempt at round two or round seven right around the millennium and apparently had a major shouting drama at a fund raiser for the Cleveland Art Museum, complete with thrown champagne.

My point?

I got an invitation to their re-marriage coming this June. Fortunately, I have other commitments that month and this year and for the next decade but I am considering a new sofa. I think it is only fair for aging friends to have a more comfortable place for olde love warriors to fall.

Convenção de Tatuagem em Aracajú

A preparação para a II Convenção de Tatuagem de Aracajú já está a todo vapor. Fábio Metal um dos patrocinadores da convenção, adiantou-nos informações sobre o evento e algumas fotos da I Convenção.

Segundo Fábio, "a convenção do ano passado foi a primeira e na verdade foi um teste", e certamente um teste com resultados positivos para os organizadores, tatuadores, público e para a tatuagem sergipana.

Concursos de Melhores Tatuagens, Shows musicais, Suspensões e a presença de tatuadores renomados de todo país, são atrações confirmadas.

Data: 11 e 12 de Julho
Local: No BNB - Orla de Atalaia
Horário: 14 às 22:00
Organização: Jeferson Fuer
Contato: fuzetatoo@hotmail.com

Fotos da I Convenção de Tatuagem de Aracajú

View from the Back Seat

[Content Disclosure: Existential Angst 67%; Illness 9%]

The most compelling metaphor I have ever heard about illness was told to me by my best friend Tom. This was in his sixth or seventh month of being sick and tired every day. He told me that being around the rest of the family was like viewing the world from the back seat of a car. While we were all up in front having a life, enjoying the day or not. He was stuck in the back, unable to engage with the world without his "illness filter". He was already always the sick person. The world was up there and he was always in the back.

What struck him most profoundly about this view was not how others treated him. They were entitled to their own reactions and fears. No, what haunted him to the very core was that this was indeed this reality. His world was a world of illness and deprivation and that was not going to change. I remember just a week or so later, he told me that he would give anything to just have one more normal day. Twenty-four hours without pain, fatigue or side effects. He was willing to trade days, even weeks for that singularly normal day.

He never got it. Think about it the next time you have a couple of lousy days in a row. You know you have another plain, old every day just around the corner. At least I hope you do. I hope we all do.

Desenhos para tattoos femininas - estrelas, fadas, anjos, Lua, Tribais...

Confira a série de desenhos femininos para tatuagem digitalizados. São lindas Borboletas, Estrelas, Luas, Corações, Beija-Flor, Fadas e Cavalos-marinhos, criados por Kelly.

Judith, vovó mais tatuada do país

Dizem que a vida começa aos quarenta, para Judith não é bem assim. Sentar em uma cadeira para coser ou assistir a novelas não é sua vocação, Judith de 77 anos prefere aproveitar a ainda mais a vida.

Segundo Judith, passeios na garupa da moto de seu filho, shows, motoclubes, barzinhos e boates fazem parte de seu calendário. Mas não podemos esquecer dos estúdios de tatuagem. Isso mesmo, Judith tem nada menos que 43 tatuagens de estrelas, flores e borboletas, recebendo assim, o título de senhora de terceira idade mais tatuada do Brasil. Atualmente o título de senhora mais tatuada do mundo é da inglesa Isobel Varley.

Judith participou de programas de TV, recebeu troféus, títulos e participa da montagem do livro “Livro dos Sonhos”, onde escreve sobre a tatuagem na mulher. Além de sua participação na Parada Gay paulista, programa Show do Tom, canais Direct Tv, revista Isto É e Folha de São Paulo.

Fonte: Jornal Umuarama

Iron Maiden no Brasil - Eddie the Head Tattoos

A banda inglesa Iron Maiden está no Brasil para apresentações em seis cidades brasileiras. Manaus (Sambódromo) é a primeira capital a receber a banda na maior turnê já realizada pelo Brasil. A banda encerra a sua turnê em Brasília, no dia 20 de março.

Não é primeira vez que a banda aparece no blog, em outra ocasião, apresentamos as tatuagens dos integrantes da banda, junto a Ozzy Osborne e Metallica. Para a alegria dos milhares de fans da banda Iron Maiden, publicamos algumas imagens de Eddie the Head, mascote da banda presente na maioria dos álbuns, tatuado na pele de fanáticos pelo sexteto.

Funeral for a Friend

[Content Disclosure: Life, Death, Synchronicity]

She said, "There is no reason

and the truth is plain to see.'

But I wandered through my playing cards

and would not let her be

one of sixteen vestal virgins

who were leaving for the coast

and although my eyes were open

they might just as well've been closed

I was talking to a friend the other day and he mentioned plans for his funeral. After a period of empathy, I pointed out that telling me was not going to assure his minimalist last wishes were going to be followed. He either had to tell his executor, put it in writing or put me in his will to carry out that portion of his requests/bequests. He asked about my own "after" plans and while we have similar desires (a quick flash bake and the nearby friends get the kitchen stuff); he was surprised that I also had some olde plans that included music for any eventual gathering of friends.

Later that same evening, I was having a completely different conversation with another bestiest friend and somehow we drifted to that same fatal/final topic. We discovered we had the same primary request for music, which I offer you the opportunity to listen, ponder and enjoy.

I must add that I wouldn't be adverse to a second verse for after the florid speeches.