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I had a flurry of interest in cover-over tattoo web sites, specialists in transforming one bad symbol into, presumably, a less bad symbol. It underscores something about the tattoo that seems contrary to the intentions behind it. Not only do people change but so do the nature of symbols, which are never strictly personal in any case.

The body is in flux too, and the physical tattoo itself, fading, blurring. Which makes it all seem comic in a way; it’s already so hard to say what you mean, it seems that a tattoo is taken as an opportunity to control meaning by inscribing it on the one thing a person can claim to own for sure. Why doesn’t it work that way?

Also, can I request in my will to receive a full face tattoo after death? It wouldn’t hurt! And it’s a much more pleasant thought for an open casket funeral that down sad waxy “naturalistic”

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Wax Stack

Some albums I had pulled out for listening fun. Or just staring at album art…

You can look up Lisa online. She performs at Senior Centers with her daughter. Bill is dead. They really look like they stepped out of Star Trek c. 1967
You can look up Lisa online. She performs at Senior Centers with her daughter. Bill is dead. They really look like they stepped out of Star Trek c. 1967
... they can barely be listened to.
… they can barely be listened to.
Tropicale Style
Tropicale Style
I found this in a cache of similar stuff in the Bay Area, but thought I had got it in Minnesota, which would make more sense. It's refreshing. Salvation Army sponsored
I found this in a cache of similar stuff in the Bay Area, but thought I had got it in Minnesota, which would make more sense. It’s refreshing. Salvation Army sponsored
Today is my favorite, Al is always odd guy out. Squinter
Today is my favorite, Al is always odd guy out. Squinter
I always liked the haughtiness of TSOL. Or that they seemed to have so much pretense. Silly, Fun.
I always liked the haughtiness of TSOL. Or that they seemed to have so much pretense. Silly, Fun.
I liked it.
I liked it.
One of my favorites. I'M NOT A ROBOT EITHER!
One of my favorites. I’M NOT A ROBOT EITHER!
Nice
Nice
Its a kind of sophistication.
Its a kind of sophistication.
Amazing. True Jersey types in some way, total studio singers, purely non-skaters. California Twist? Yeah right
Amazing. True Jersey types in some way, total studio singers, purely non-skaters. California Twist? Yeah right
Kind of amusing how soft it is. I thought it might be the house band for Radio Shack.
Kind of amusing how soft it is. I thought it might be the house band for Radio Shack.
Kinda pretentious pop moog but a nice listening album
Kinda pretentious pop moog but a nice listening album
Parallel Lines cover. One of my favorite top 40 albums, along with the Cars
Parallel Lines cover. One of my favorite top 40 albums, along with the Cars
I imagine them posed in their pink leather suits for hours to get this photo right, before digital editing, the frozen expressions, the perfect spacing, the slight forward lean. I hate the music.
I imagine them posed in their pink leather suits for hours to get this photo right, before digital editing, the frozen expressions, the perfect spacing, the slight forward lean. I hate the music.

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Hilarious 60s cover. Psycho horn player. Why does it remind of Suicidal Tendencies
Hilarious 60s cover. Psycho horn player. Why does it remind of Suicidal Tendencies
I always found this cover intense
I always found this cover intense
Sadist
Sadist
One of my first thrift store finds ever. like from the 80s
One of my first thrift store finds ever. like from the 80s
An amazing cover. They rock like neanderthals
An amazing cover. They rock like neanderthals
Such an amazing record.
Such an amazing record.