I'm a bodmod snob.
Something I hate: places that do body piercings or tattoos, that are also a head shop.
There's a place in Oswego called Xtreme Underground. (Yeah, just the name sends an awesome message, in my opinion. *rolls eyes* Haha.) I went there with my friend Molly when she got her tongue pierced on her 18th birthday, and MOST of the place was filled with smoking accessories (with all kinds of disclaimers all over the place saying they were "intended for tobacco use only" ... YEAH, RIGHT) and in-your-face t-shirts and bumper stickers. There was a small room in the back that they used for piercing. The place seemed clean enough to me at the time, but who knows. I was only 17 then. I probably wouldn't agree with their way of running things if I went in there now.
Something about it just strikes me as unprofessional and sub-par. I certainly have no problem with in-your-face t-shirts and bumper stickers, or "smoking accessories" (regardless of what you're smoking in them), and okay, sure. People into piercings and tattoos are probably also more likely to be into other "alternative" sorts of things.
But you definitely do not need to be a pot-smoking hardass who listens to strictly metal and nothing else to be into piercings. I'm certainly none of those things, and I'm more interested in and knowledgeable about body modification than most people I know. And I don't like the feeling I get when I walk into a place like that, and there's a gaggle of blondes giggling in the back room about "omgz, how bad does a bellybutton piercing hurt compared to, like, stubbing your toe or something?"
This is why I'm such a loyal customer of my piercer's shop. All he does is pierce, scalpel, dermal punch, and scar people (as well as sell high-quality jewelry), and he's got a couple of tattoo artists working there too who only tattoo. His dedication to the art of body modification is obvious as soon as you walk into the place and/or talk to him, and the shop is tastefully decorated with a bunch of tribal wood carvings and the like. It's very calming, and not so faux-intense as these wannabe hardcore head shops seem to me.
So, yeah. DON'T GET PIERCED IN A PLACE THAT ALSO SELLS SMOKING ACCESSORIES IF YOU WANT TO BE MY FRIEND. ;)
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I'm at my aunt's place in Albany right now. I drove all the way here by myself! It was awesome! *squeezes her car's guts out* Tomorrow night (well, I guess technically tonight, considering it's 5am... aye-yi-yi) we're going to this concert thing at Saratoga Performing Arts Center. I guess it's a bunch of classical music, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra... and it closes with a performance of the 1812 Overture, complete with cannons, bells, fireworks... it's probably going to be pretty awe-inspiring. I like that song anyway. ("Song"? Perhaps it's better referred to as a "piece"? Haha.)
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THE IMPOSSIBLE QUIZ. DO IT.
There's a place in Oswego called Xtreme Underground. (Yeah, just the name sends an awesome message, in my opinion. *rolls eyes* Haha.) I went there with my friend Molly when she got her tongue pierced on her 18th birthday, and MOST of the place was filled with smoking accessories (with all kinds of disclaimers all over the place saying they were "intended for tobacco use only" ... YEAH, RIGHT) and in-your-face t-shirts and bumper stickers. There was a small room in the back that they used for piercing. The place seemed clean enough to me at the time, but who knows. I was only 17 then. I probably wouldn't agree with their way of running things if I went in there now.
Something about it just strikes me as unprofessional and sub-par. I certainly have no problem with in-your-face t-shirts and bumper stickers, or "smoking accessories" (regardless of what you're smoking in them), and okay, sure. People into piercings and tattoos are probably also more likely to be into other "alternative" sorts of things.
But you definitely do not need to be a pot-smoking hardass who listens to strictly metal and nothing else to be into piercings. I'm certainly none of those things, and I'm more interested in and knowledgeable about body modification than most people I know. And I don't like the feeling I get when I walk into a place like that, and there's a gaggle of blondes giggling in the back room about "omgz, how bad does a bellybutton piercing hurt compared to, like, stubbing your toe or something?"
This is why I'm such a loyal customer of my piercer's shop. All he does is pierce, scalpel, dermal punch, and scar people (as well as sell high-quality jewelry), and he's got a couple of tattoo artists working there too who only tattoo. His dedication to the art of body modification is obvious as soon as you walk into the place and/or talk to him, and the shop is tastefully decorated with a bunch of tribal wood carvings and the like. It's very calming, and not so faux-intense as these wannabe hardcore head shops seem to me.
So, yeah. DON'T GET PIERCED IN A PLACE THAT ALSO SELLS SMOKING ACCESSORIES IF YOU WANT TO BE MY FRIEND. ;)
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I'm at my aunt's place in Albany right now. I drove all the way here by myself! It was awesome! *squeezes her car's guts out* Tomorrow night (well, I guess technically tonight, considering it's 5am... aye-yi-yi) we're going to this concert thing at Saratoga Performing Arts Center. I guess it's a bunch of classical music, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra... and it closes with a performance of the 1812 Overture, complete with cannons, bells, fireworks... it's probably going to be pretty awe-inspiring. I like that song anyway. ("Song"? Perhaps it's better referred to as a "piece"? Haha.)
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THE IMPOSSIBLE QUIZ. DO IT.