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Jim

Details, of my less than extraordinary existence

About Me

I Tattoo, draw, read a lot and am constantly working on my studio and on my technique. I'm very happily married to Karen, and we have a cat. Or perhaps the cat has us. It's an issue we've so far failed to resolve!

My Interests

Tattooing,of course,gaming, movies. Like a lot of other Tattooists, I collect Tattoo machines.


I'd like to meet:

Fellow Professionals who want to further the Art. And of course, other people who just wanna chat or share thoughts, I don't restrict myself to just my Tattoo friends and colleagues.

Music:

I enjoy oldies, especially 50's stuff, Clapton, Led Zep, Darkness, Kings of Leon, Hendrix, Pearl Jam, Ray Charles, NIN, Sinatra, Steve Earle, Suicide Kings also known as the Revenants, Big Band and Swing, Bush, Sublime,Everclear, Frankie Lyman, George Jones,the Drifters, The Clash, Deep Purple, Live, Kinks, The Jam, Robert Cray, Nirvana, Placebo,and of course Johnny Cash. I want a jukebox for my old 45's, I'd trade a lot of ink for the right one too.

Movies:

Manchurian Candidate, (both versions), Italian Job (they're all good), anything with Jimmy Stewart, Cagney, Bogart, Mitchum, Jeepers Creepers, Platoon, Back to the Future, Hammer Horror.

Television:

I watch as little of the boob tube as possible, with the exception of Family Guy, the Simpsons and the Sunday afternoon Black 'n' Whites.Your television is a transceiver, and they listen in. It's true, a tramp told me once in Flagstaff. Also, Eric Banker ran that tramp off by asking him for a dime...it's true, just ask Eric.

Books:

Dean Koontz' "Dark Rivers of the Heart", a bible for the walking wounded.Anything on Tattooing. Raymond E Feist, Tolstoy, Clive Cussler, Robert Jordan James Patterson, Sun Tzu, Art, History, William Diehl, Bernard Cornwell, Robert Jordan, Dan Brown, Clive Cussler. I probably get through about a book or two a week.

Heroes:

My heroes have always been cowboys

My Blog

Time

Time I was getting home I thought, watching the dark clouds bunch together on the brow of the hill, ready to burst and shower everything with liquid depression. A thought that changed to a "maybe...
Posted by Jim on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:22:00 PST

WTF?

WTF is going on with everyone? How are you all doing? Are you busy? Bored? Manic? When are we going to get some summer? I want to buy a canopy thing and have a BBQ. Tattoo machines are not guns, stop ...
Posted by Jim on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 01:09:00 PST

Is that all you got?

  Hah! I don't think it's just me, not just my peculiarity I'm not the only one who can see that this shit aint a rehearsal. There's no appeal, no chance of reversal, what's the use of just...
Posted by Jim on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:21:00 PST

The 12 days of Bullshit.....

Xmas, huh? Just 'round the corner, and the "mosquito-effect" ( That's where the shops start to fill with wild-eyed shitheads buzzing up and down the aisles buying shite they neither want, nor can affo...
Posted by Jim on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:07:00 PST

So,....you want a Tattoo Apprenticeship?

  Some thoughts from THIS side of the needle.#1 I keep getting e-mails from people regarding them "Wanting" an apprenticeship. As much as I'm tempted sometimes to answer them with "Pe...
Posted by Jim on Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:39:00 PST