los campesinos!

seriously - best band ever. they sound like a whimsical, circusesqe trip through an emotional hell. the lyrics are sharp, whitty and manage to succeed at making you actually sting without making physical contact, thereby exacting songs that leave you with a bitterly hopeful outlook. examples:

- "Oh, we kid ourselves, there's future in the fucking. But there is no fucking future"
- "Think it's fair to say that I chose hopelessness And inflicted it on the rest of us. But at least I came to terms with my own mortality"
- "When you play pass the parcel with human bodyparts, Somebody might get head but someone will get hurt"
- "And it's your party but I'll die if I want to, die if I want to"
- "This is how you spell 'HAHAHA, I've destroyed the hopes and the dreams of a generation of faux-romantics'."

look a gift pony in the mouth

recently, i've come to appreciate the things that i do have up here in seattle. i have a job, a room and a great group of friends with whom i share a great deal mutual love and respect. but really - what do i have to do to get a little juvenile around here? i'm really into the idea of a bunch of skinny capital hill type girls trying to "back that thang up". not so much for the titilation, it's just one of those things i'd like to see before i die.

why not to take mushrooms - part 24

for two weeks afterward you'll be walking to the bus stop with your eyes closed repeatedly listening to the same 30 second sequence of that explosions in the sky song trying to recreate the visual when the cosmic crustacean armada launched it's attack while simultaneously developing a deep-rooted, overwhelming fear of lobsters and alaskan king crab.

chiggity check yo self

new stuff up at crappy paint art.

go nuts...

it's pronounced 'chowdaaa'

• why yes. that is a shiny new tattoo. thanks for asking. if you're wondering - it's not that i'm wicked and jenna's sweet but rather it should be read like the phrase "wicked sweet". (as in wicked awesome, wicked pissa, wicked chowda etc.) either way i know i can always make my way in boston if need be, assuming i'm let out of the implied contract that requires me to constantly be within 50 feet of my sister tattoo.
• my tattoo artist was beautiful. i had to feign discomfort with having her boob repeatedly placed against my arm.
• some kid is going to love his iron man action set "with massive clip on arsenal".
• saturday spontaneously happened to revolve around punk rock
• urban craft uprising - lots of awesome homemade crafts. really wanted the hand-spun yarn but couldn't afford it. found out about yarnia. as alicia pointed out, the estogen in the air was so thick it could actually be tasted. there was like a sweet, screeching, high pitched chorus of "ohhhh my god"s, "that's sooo cute"s and "i just loooove that"s. spent $24 on the vast majority of my xmas shopping.
• punk rock flea market - slightly cooler than UCU, significantly cheaper, though exceptionally smaller. finished my xmas shopping for another $1 which i used to buy my cousin the best present i've probably ever given.
• punk rock donuts - soooo freakin tasty, and warm!!!!
• punk rock documentary night - another state of mind, pbr, burritos and the winking circle (which is NOT a porn).
• making great strides in completing my 2X2 rib scarf. i hope somebody likes green acrylic.
• i actually went grocery shopping for the first time in weeks. how i survived this long without doing so is a mystery.
• i watched screen door jesus which sucked and a dirty shame which didn't.
  

better yet...

i get two circles tattooed on the back of my elbow. that way i could say

"these are my balls, and this is my weenis"

debating the merits of having a neck tattoo

toys for tats on sunday. i have no idea where to put it much less what to get but considering that i have to pick it off the flash wall there probably isn't a lot of forethought that really can go into it. here is what i am considering as potential possibilities:

• my butt - that way i would get to moon everyone in the shop.
• back of my neck - isn't that kinda gay?
• forearm - not sure how i feel about visible tattoos.
• right arm - it's pretty barren but a $60 tattoo isn't gonna do much there and i was kinda saving that space for something else.
• arm band - preferably barbed wire.

as far as general idea for the design here is what i'm ruminating:

• a dinosaur - only a good person would get a dinosaur tattoo.
• an anchor - i always wanted to live a life at sea, next best thing i think.
• a robot - who doesn't like robots.
• one of those things with a banner where you would usually put 'mom' or the name of your sweetheart, except i'll get something like 'dumbass', 'disgruntled' or 'poontang'. 'poontang' sounds like a great idea but i have to be realistic about the possibility of ending up in jail or god forbid prison where something like that would make things very awkward, very quickly.
• a leprechan - i'm a mick what the hell do you want from me?

i think i can maximize the size of the tattoo by getting something in black and white...ehh whatever. at this point i'm really aiming to get something just absolutely ridiculous and i'd appreciate your help so if you have a suggestion please comment. i'll even allow for anonymous posts in this circumstance. matter of fact every everyone should post anon for this. it'll be a fun game and on sunday you can see if you won. i could even make a prize.

the winner of the contest gets a 6er of prb tall boys - or in the alternative the winner can watch me drink 6 pbr tall boys and have me do their bidding for 2 hours.