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 by Shawn at Shaman’s Den in Binghamton NY. |
all theories
like clichés
shot to hell,
all these small faces
looking up
beautiful and believing;
I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.
we have narrowed it down to
the butcherknife and the
mockingbird.
wish us
luck.
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Tattoo by Sheldon at Mozaik Tattoo in Shreveport, Louisiana.
“Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.” (huh?)
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Hey, remember the classy broad from a few entries back? Well, she’s got a friend, and she’s classy too. Welcome to IAM/BME, Thelma (and also to your friend Louise)! I love buddy tattoos!
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As a point of trivia, the text (the sort of dot-matrix effect) was her first tattoo, and then Heidi Hay added the band caricatures later. I’m assuming that’s album art or something along those lines, but I definitely think this is better than most band tattoos I get (or maybe I’m just a sucker for cartoons).
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This tattoo is by Mike Haines at Scarab Body Arts in Syracuse, and is one of the nicer “Semper Fi” themed tattoos I’ve received. He also has a mini-portfolio on BME that you can check out.
And you can never go wrong with a partially de-clothed Marine, right?
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Heh Hey, it’s not the song I’d have chosen personally to tattoo on my back, but good for her for at least getting the tune right… Db – Dbsus4 – Gb – Db… Most people are too sloppy to bother. Anyway, this is by Steve the Gypsy in Sheffield. I do not know if that’s gypsy as in Gypsy Cab or as in Gypsy Moth, of if he’s an actually a bonafide gypsy.
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I know, I know, they’re often the same thing — especially if you’re talking about oldschool DIY punk rather than modern corporate marketting theme punk — but I thought that these two tattoos represented two good examples of very different ways of saying effectively the same thing.
