Ink dream
I had an odd dream the other night, and I'm unsure as to how I should interpret it...
Guy Arnold came to my house to start work on my Iron Maiden sleeve. Guy is a tattoo artist who's done work on a number of my friends, but never on me... and I'm loyal to my good friend Uncle Pauly at Little Vinnie's., so this was an odd situation right off the bat... not to mention the fact that Guy was making a tattooing house-call. Before we could begin, I had to search through my brother's room to find his Aces High 12" single to use as reference artwork. In this dream, our bedrooms were located where they were when I was in high school, and the search proved futile after going over his bedroom with a fine-tooth comb. This recalled real experiences, as I remember sneaking into Eric's room to root through his records when I was like 15, looking for Bad Religion's No Control and other discs by bands like the Exploited, Circle Jerks, Jello Biafra, and Suicidal Tendencies. I figured, instead, that I'd just try to find the CD or shirt that I had in my room. I actually do own a shirt with the Aces High artwork on it, but I was unsuccessful in my attempts to locate it.
As I kept searching, though, I suddenly remembered that I already have plans for my sleeves-plans that don't involve Iron Maiden-so I stopped looking and went back downstairs to let Guy know that we weren't going to be able to do it because I couldn't find a copy of the artwork. Now, of course I knew even in dreamland that I could hop online and find the cover art in about five seconds, but I had already decided that I didn't want to get the tattoo... and I figured I'd just tell him that we couldn't do it because of the lack of art rather than just ticking him off by telling him that I'd changed my mind and he had driven out to my house for nothing. I did have second thoughts, though, because when trying to determine what would go on my other arm to maintain some symmetry if I were to get an Iron Maiden sleeve on my left, I realized I could go with an Descendents/ALL theme for the right. That would be rad.
Guy Arnold came to my house to start work on my Iron Maiden sleeve. Guy is a tattoo artist who's done work on a number of my friends, but never on me... and I'm loyal to my good friend Uncle Pauly at Little Vinnie's., so this was an odd situation right off the bat... not to mention the fact that Guy was making a tattooing house-call. Before we could begin, I had to search through my brother's room to find his Aces High 12" single to use as reference artwork. In this dream, our bedrooms were located where they were when I was in high school, and the search proved futile after going over his bedroom with a fine-tooth comb. This recalled real experiences, as I remember sneaking into Eric's room to root through his records when I was like 15, looking for Bad Religion's No Control and other discs by bands like the Exploited, Circle Jerks, Jello Biafra, and Suicidal Tendencies. I figured, instead, that I'd just try to find the CD or shirt that I had in my room. I actually do own a shirt with the Aces High artwork on it, but I was unsuccessful in my attempts to locate it.
As I kept searching, though, I suddenly remembered that I already have plans for my sleeves-plans that don't involve Iron Maiden-so I stopped looking and went back downstairs to let Guy know that we weren't going to be able to do it because I couldn't find a copy of the artwork. Now, of course I knew even in dreamland that I could hop online and find the cover art in about five seconds, but I had already decided that I didn't want to get the tattoo... and I figured I'd just tell him that we couldn't do it because of the lack of art rather than just ticking him off by telling him that I'd changed my mind and he had driven out to my house for nothing. I did have second thoughts, though, because when trying to determine what would go on my other arm to maintain some symmetry if I were to get an Iron Maiden sleeve on my left, I realized I could go with an Descendents/ALL theme for the right. That would be rad.