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Front hub assembly went on the truck. $86 for the part $100 labor. Fixed right? NOPE! The one I replaced last year was the one that is shot. $86 for the part again, not sure about labor. If you're keeping track that's $272 in a day. Looks like a few people aren't getting X-mas presents this year. GREAT STINKING TIMING MURPHY! Jerk.
On a lighter note...............sorry don't have one. Anyone else with Holiday horror stories? I'd love to hear them right now..
I'm thinking we start a four day work week revolution. I'm down for a few 10 hour days in a row to eliminate Mondays. I don't mind working Fridays so much, at least you have happy hour to look forward to ya know? Mondays I could do without.
So enough of my bitchin. Here's what's happening at Tatshirts.com. The online tattoo contest is still up and we have a couple months left to enter and rack up some votes. The design contest is still going strong but we need more votes on the current designs! We can't pick winners without the community's help! The blog is rocking it and we actually have some good content! I know right? Who'd a thought that Bigsteve could write? Not me man...... Swing by the site, tell your friends, tell your artists, shit tell the world to get involved! Have a great Thursday all.........
Personally, it's been the "One Bad Album" rule. That's all it takes for a band's musical reputation to be asterisked forever, which makes getting a tattoo of that band, well, risky. You have to wonder how often thirty-somethings across the land hear "Nice Chi' Pep's tat brah," sarcastically said to them by a stranger, regarding the ink they received during a black-out trip to a Daytona Beach tattoo parlor during Spring Break '92.
That scenario will and should keep anybody from getting tattooed with the logo (or God forbid, lead singer's face) on their skin for the rest of their life. But don't tell that to some fans, who wear their ink as a badge of honor.
It's true, some bands inspire tattoos more than others -- evidenced by the utter lack of Third Eye Blind tattoos -- and based on highly scientific research conducted in bars, dimly lit clubs and arena parking lots, are the 20 bands that most inspire tattoos among their fans.
20. The Rolling StonesWith the median age the Stones' largest fan group inching toward their seventies, the number of tattoos by Stones fans is significantly smaller than say, ICP fans. But like the band's music, Rolling Stones tattoos are kind of timeless, which puts them at Number 20 on our list.
19. The Descendents
Many of the bands on this list seem to come from the punk scene, which is explained by a few things: 1) The age of that scenes fans (maxes out at about 55) and 2) the rebellious nature, an attitude with which tattoos have been sleeping with since before Joey Ramone first copped dope. The Descendents iconic "Milo" logo -- or a personalized variation of it -- has been spotted on forearms from coast to coast since the mid '80s, when the band really came into popularity. The band's resurgence and reunion tours only helped keep the tattoo guns buzzing.
18. Hot Water Music
The fire-over-water logo is another symbol frequently spotted around rock shows. Like all the bands on this list, Hot Water Music inspires a dedicated -- cult, even? -- following among its fans, inspiring new bands that sound like HWM and a hot sea of tattoos.
17. Led Zeppelin
The original heavy metal band (debate below in the comments), Led Zeppelin's rumored dabbling in the occult only helped its cult status among fans. Also, Led Zep has so many cool logos (see above), there's plenty from which to choose if you're looking to make a statement about your outlook on life, as well as your favorite choice in music. Also, the fact they hardly released a bad record, or even song, makes a Zepplin tattoo a safe choice. An Alison Krauss and Robert Plant tattoo? No so much.
16. Type O Negative
Longevity and a commitment to a particular sound -- usually based around the a solid line-up -- plus an iconic logo will result in more than a few tattoos. That's the case with Brooklyn-founded Type O Negative, founded by the late, great Peter Steele (RIP). Any big metal show in the country should include a few Type O tattoos; if it doesn't, you may want to question your taste in mainstream metal, because as that style goes, it's hard to top Type O.
15. KISS
Paradoxically standing in both cult territory and a state filled with grossly commercial success, KISS were Lady Gaga before Lady Gaga, Madonna before Madonna or Metallica before Metallica. Hell, they practically coined the term "army" after their name. As such, members of the KISS Army march forward, led by their vile general Gene Simmons. If these fans are going to go out in public dressed like Peter Criss, then getting inked for the good of the Army is pretty easy. You don't see too many KISS tattoos these days, but the ones you do see are usually huge. Because with KISS, you don't do anything small.
14. Alkaline Trio
The sons and daughters of KISS fans may scoff and their elder's ink while confidently looking at their own band tattoo. That band tattoo often is the logo of Chicago-based second-wave emo punks Alkaline Trio. The skull-in-heart logo has been put on stickers, shirts and record covers, and extended to skin. It's iconic and deep, love and death and all that.
13. Operation Ivy
With the popularity of Bay Area punks Rancid in the mid '90s came renewed interest in Operation Ivy, a band that had two members of Rancid. In comparison with early Rancid material, "Op Ivy" songs, while less structured and raw, resonated with fans of the sound. The political "message songs" only compelled fans to get tattoos of the band.
12. Radiohead
Radiohead has a cult following, but the band's introverted style isn't one that always jibes with the run-out-and-get-tattooed crowd. Still, you'll spot a Radiohead tattoo at mainstream music festivals like Coachella and Bonnaroo, and on undergrads at college campuses, of course, who just downloaded The Bends and whose minds have changed forever -- or at least a semester.
11. Phish
Phish's heyday in the late '90s was a time when you could spot a Phish tattoo on any guy or girl involved in a sweaty, quick-moving game of hacky sack. It was a time of small, inconspicuous -- cute, even -- tattoos, when rainbow-colored dolphins swimming around a full moon were also aplenty. There's no need to explore the dedication of fans who live by the music of Trey Anastasio and Co. This is Denver after all. Phish tattoos today are tougher to spot in certain areas of the country, but still exist in the wild.
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers
Yes, the Chi' Peps. A timeless band, forever hip, forever cool among early twenty-somethings. RHCP is in a select group with bands like Rage Against the Machine and 311, who will be as omnipresent in college dorm rooms as Scarface posters. But like Phish, their stock is dwindling as the growth of new fans slows and gives way to dubstep and the neo-folk of bands like My Morning Jacket. The kinship it shares with other bands on this list is getting that RHCP star logo on your wrist or shoulder blade at one point meant a few things: You were easy-going, a free-thinker and prone to getting funky.
9. Misfits
Probably the cult punk band in terms of size of the fan-base. While the Misfits have sold a truckloads of merch over the last thirty years (even bringing their own screens on tour in the early days to screenprint the iconic Crimson Ghost logo on leather jackets), the Misfits tattoo has been spotted on frontmen of bands punk and metal, and on fans of all styles.
8. Slayer
The eye-brow raising imagery in Slayer lyrics and its artwork brought up conversations about the band's social leanings (read: Third Reich), which is enough to make some folks run out and get a tattoo right away. But the real reason you see so many Slayer tattoos? The innovative thrashing which Slayer recorded on records like Reign in Blood and Hell Awaits. The simplicity of the name and again, that army-style logo, helps. Finally, listening to the wail of singer Tom Araya during the opening of "Angel of Death" alone may be enough. That's probably the best thing to say, you like the singer's voice. Just avoid the controversy.
7. Green Day
Most often spotted was the original logo as seen on the Kerplunk record, but as of late -- a new generation of fans, perhaps -- is the American Idiot heart-shaped grenade. Green Day fans of the American Idiot era who were sixteen in 2004 are now 22, prime age for getting a tattoo, according to Pew.
6. Motörhead
"Lemmy is God." That line is the most-remembered thing (not just line, but thing) about the movie Airheads, and with good reason. The frontman of Motörhead is badass incarnate, and Motörhead hasn't fucked with the formula of New Wave British Heavy Metal much in since forming in 1975. Getting a Motörhead tattoo is a safe bet, and Lemmy's lyrics about the grimy universe in which Motörhead resides ooze attitude, another reason you see so many Motörhead tattoos.
5. Sublime
The death of a singer Bradley Nowell in May 1996 -- just a month before the band's incredible self-titled third album was released -- made Sublime a cult band before they made it big. The California lifestyle espoused by Nowell -- surfing, pot and politics -- on Sublime records mushroomed into a lifestyle for teens in the South, Middle America and the East Coast. There was zero chance of the band putting out a bad album.
4. Social Distortion
SoCal punk rockers/outlaws/proud scumbags Social Distortion have the key tattoo elements going for them: iconic logo, lifestyle lyrics and a kinship among fans. At any given Social D show, you'll spot at least a dozen tattoos by the long-running band.
3. Insane Clown Posse
Since going to a major label in 1995, ICP and its growing army of Juggalos with Hatchet Man tattoos is this era's best example of a musical group with a cult following. By just showing off your hatchet man tattoo, you're accepted into the largest gang of self-described outcasts, the Juggalos. You could write an entire magazine story on being a Juggalo, but we're going to move on because others have already done it.
2. Black Flag
Probably the most famous punk-oriented tattoo, the Black Flag bars were first and most famously sported by the band's most popular -- if not best -- lead singer, Henry Rollins. Since getting that tattoo and wearing it on flimsy club stages across America in the '80s, the Black Flag bars have been customized by fans, filled with the colors of a city's flag, surrounded by other artwork and even sported by Academy Award nominees.
1. Iron Maiden
Perhaps the most iconic metal band if only for its iconic Eddie character, Iron Maiden's rise to fame in the '80s -- and again this decade -- shows that its fans are loyal at both the record store and in the tattoo parlor.
http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2010/12/20_bands_that_inspire_tattoos_among_fans.php
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Patrick Vaillancourt wanted to break a world record, but this one will stay with him forever.
Over the next year, the 29-year-old from Montreal will have over 100,000 Internet addresses tattooed on his body.
"I woke up one morning and just felt like taking up the challenge," Vaillancourt said. "I'm not an athlete and I can't run like a gazelle, but I do have the guts to get tattooed."
Businesses are donating money to Vaillancourt to have their addresses included in the project, and all proceeds are being donated to CARE Canada, an international aid agency.
"I want to break a Guinness World Record, but more importantly, I want to help others. And this is my way of doing so," he said.
Twitter and Facebook page profiles are also eligible to be included on Vaillancourt's body and they will also be cross-listed on his campaign's website, Back2thelight.com.
To meet the world record requirements, he must have completed the 100,000 tattoos by summer.
This was a post from another artist but I thought it spoke volumes. Please see the link below for the original context.
Over the past 10 years, as the professional tattoo artist, JD Hatred; I've done a lot of tattoos. I like to maintain a certain level of honesty to the customer in their quest for the new tattoo. I never decide what
It's this expectation that for all my years, I should know a good tattoo idea off the top of my head. That's the problem: I know far too many of them. To ask me what a cool tattoo would be is the equivalent of asking someone on a beach to locate the nicest grain of sand. I could certainly do it, but I won't have a stopping point, nor can I conclusively settle on one in any reasonable amount of time.
In an effort to help you have a place to start, these are my 4 fundamental starting points to come up with a brilliant tattoo idea while lowering the chances that you won't like it later. These are not the only valid reasons, but they are the least disappointing. You may find tattoo ideas that fit into more that one category. I call that a good tattoo.
The Eternal Consistency
An 'eternal consistency' is something that will never change. Some examples are your birthday, astrological sign, the birth of your children, and so on. No matter where you are or how your views may change over time; these are the details that will always stay the same. I think of this at the 'safest' idea. Even if the design grows tired, it will still be relevant to you.
The Life Marker
Through out your life, there will likely be a few points you will personally want to make a note of. Examples of this would be marriage, death, or the achievement of a goal. Personally, this is one of my more favorable reasons for getting a tattoo.
Having a tattoo that you can personally see has its own advantage. Having something to look at regarding an event in your life subconsciously reminds you of that event. Memories get hazy over time, but a tattoo could help to seal some of those memories in your mind and improve their clarity.
The Personal Meaning
There comes a time where you have made a person decision in your life on how you think, or you have found your choices are being driven by a core belief. This is where personal meanings have not just been formed, but have found a solid form unto itself. Bible scriptures and philosophies would be an example of this. Something you believe has finally proven to be true.
The Characterization
Among the four choices, this one has the most risk. If "personal meaning" is your nature, then this one is your demeanor. A love for motorcycling, a long time favorite comic book character, or maybe an icon that is "so you" fits into this category. The risk here is that it might be something you get tired of. Always think about how you would feel about something in 5 years.
Final Advice
If you don't know what it is you want, then it is likely not a good idea to get a tattoo. Remember, this is permanent. Don't let the high pressure sales tactics and sense of authority the tattooist possesses push you into something.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/6019750/4_fundamental_reasons_to_get_a_tattoo.html?cat=2
Stinkin Monday......grumble mumble frumble. STINKIN MONDAY! I hope everyones weekend was groovy and don't forget, only 18 days till X-MAS! Holy crap huh? I think I just pooed myself a little.....better get to shopping. Where should I go? TATSHIRTS.COM! They have an amazing sale going on right now!
Sorry, had to do it. Subtle I am not. LATER!
GOOD FRIDAY MORNING TO YOU ALL! As soon as I stepped outside my berries fell off and ran back in the house. STINKIN COLD MAN! They just sent me a text saying how comfortable they are wrapped up in a blanket sippin on hot chocolate. Never trust your nuts fellas. Ladies, be glad you don't have them!
Have a wonderful Friday all! STAY WARM!
