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If I didn't already know what Alpha Dog is about, looking at the above movie still with the heavily-inked Timberlake and the tattoo that says "ice skating" in Chinese on his right arm, I'd think that Alpha Dog is Ice Castles meets Cape Fear (and possibly the "wind earth fire water" tattoo on his left oblique is a shoutout to Earth, Wind & Fire, whose music he skated to pre-jailbird) instead of yet another deluded attempt by Timbers to show the world how gangstah and thuggily sexy he is.
My husband suggested that "ice skating" could be a direct translation (the first character of the tattoo means to slip, to glide, slippery) of a drug slang involving crystal meth and indeed Timberlake's character is a drug dealer, or the tattoo could just be an allusion to crystal meth, like when people say "it's snowing" to mean there's cocaine.
I think the tattoo was chosen in the same "that looks cool" spirit as the salacious "paternal grandmother" tattoo on a gay porn actor, without too much thought and concern being spared for the actual meaning of the Chinese words.
Yet another incongruous couple has split. I've been getting into Dita von Teese lately. Her birth name is Heather Sweet, which already sounds like a stage name.
If anyone has the September 2006 issue of Vogue with Kirsten Dunst on the cover in good condition and you don't want it anymore, I'd like to buy it from you. Please comment here or email me at jazz.june at gmail.com.
