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MIKE KOBO

it is less of a crime to call ones own mother a whore than the sacred instrument of tattooing a gun

About Me



i love moonlit walks on the beach ,champagne enemas ,dirt flavored mouthwash, building model airplanes with out proper ventilation , eating forbidden fruit ,finding new uses for spent juices,feeding dirt carrots to dust bunnies,and mopping my floor with fruit flavored floor wax .running with scissors,playing with matches ,drinking out of the milk carton,leaving the toilet seat up, running stop signs, leaving teethmarks in your upholstery,beating plowshares into polyester,using my teeth and nails when all else fails,,im a dirt bag tattoo artist from hollywood living in belgium, im hell bent for naugahyde and love the smell of green soap in the morning ,living fast and dying famous !!!!! ..
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My Interests

ART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!TATTOOING ASS ANTLERS;; MAN BANDS ; AND OLD LADIES ARM FLAPS ,,,,,,SPENDING BLACK OUT WEEKENDS IN AMSTERDAM,,,,,,,,,EATING ROASTED CHESTNUTS IN BRUSSLES ON A COLD WINTER DAY;; WANDERING THE DIRTY GHETTO STREETS OF PARIS AT NIGHT ,,,,,,,,,,;WALKING ALONG THE RHINE IN SPRINGTIME HOLDING MY BABYS HAND ,,,,,,,,,,,,,partying like a rock star in gent during the gentse feeste ,attending christmas mass in st bafths cathedral on ecstacy, working the vampire shift at tattoo mania, watching all the shit go down on the sunset strip ,travelling ,looking forward to a new adventure ,partying from 2am til miday at la rocca in antwerp ,not letting grass grow under my feet ,having the balls to say fuck the world and live my life my way regardless of the consequences ,arriving in paris with 200 bucks in my pocket and a tattoo machine in my hand and a suit case full of dirty laundry ,having a entire planet to explore ,old world architechture ,being in awe ,slumber parties at red hot rhondas and bijouxs,a long prolonged derangement of the senses to acheive the un-known,being a plasic soldier in a miniature dirt war,getting lost in foriegn citys,proving people wrong about me ,being obsessed with art,drunken spear fishing in hawaii,pig hunting with cracked out somoan gangsters with full automatic assault rifles in kauai,woman who cant say no,dive bars,dyke bars,biker bars,spanky bars,gay bars (free drinks) and especially the hide away bar (waikiki) providing false information to the authorities,people with soul,tequila,tacos de lengua,carne asada,sunsets in lahaina,pole hale,sunrises in wailua beach,mana pua,pig lau lau,bruddah joe ,spam musubi,the aina,sweet puanani,lychee,mangoes,wiki whaki wu wu's,femme nu,roxxa,club rose,hotel street,club hubba hubba,hollywood ,lava lounge ,big foot lodge,cheetahs,crazy girls ,jumbos,the frolic room,drunken food fights at canters,fast motor bikes,crazy armenian cab drivers,dodging bullets,new york style pizza,finger bangin mary jane rotten crotch through her pretty pink panties !!!pushing my creativity to new hieghts, drawing til my fingers bleed,tattooing til my wrist hurts,riding it til the wheels fall off!!!!!!!!!!!!!falling in love,falling out of love!!!!falling off my trolly!!!starting the cycle all over again!!!!finding energy vortexs,opening new doors ,and burning bridges,finding great friends in a sea of turds!!!!!!improving my soul!!paying off my karmic debt !!!f

I'd like to meet:

i already met her her name is dana shes my little german angel sent from heaven to save me from my evil ways ,she puts up with all of my artistic angst ,my constant complaining about the tattoo world and how its turned to shit ,about how im always being taken advantage of in the business ,how im soooo un-appreciated in my art ,about my fat sweaty smelly clients who never seem to have cash on them when im finished tattooing them ,that wont sit still are constantly fiddle fucking around with their mobile phones customers who flake on appointments and show up late ?!!she puts up with all of my insecurities ,my psycho-sematic illnesses ,my memory loss from my excessive pre marital drug abuse !!!!!my mood swings ,my infantile behavior ,my reclusive anti social behavior ,all of my quirks ,my kinks ,she even stood by me when i quit smoking cigarettes ,not to mention my being messy around the house ,not lifting the toilet seat ,spilling paint ,ink and beer on the floor ,despite all of this shes been amazingly supportive of what i do and what i am and what im trying to accomplish thanks dana you amaze me ALSO I WOULD LIKE TO MEET PEOPLE INTERESTED IN GETTING SOMETHING UNIQUE TATTOOED ON THEIR BODIES ,PEOPLE NOT AFRAID OF LEAVING THE HERD AND EXPLORING ALTERNATIVE POSSIBILITIES OF SKIN ART !!!!!

Music:



i listen to a lot of spanish guitar instrumentals while painting !! and pretend im at my house in cadaques watching the sunset and communing with the ghosts of salvador dali ,and picasso ,van gough, and jim morrison ,smoking tabak mixed w/hasheeeeesh ,drinking absinthe and discussing politics and existentialism

Movies:

house of 1000 corpses ,edward scissorhand,night mare before xmas,pulp fiction,res dogs,sling blade,from dusk til dawn(chet pussy rocks)falling down,blood in blood out,natural born killers,a clock work orange ,train spotting(of course),dogma,young frankenstien,blazing saddles,fantasia,mary poppins,finding nemo,soylent green,american history x,kalifornia,corn hole cuties(hi traci love) drug store cowboy ,full metal jacket,eraser head,pink flamingoes,cool hand luke,papillion,willy wonka and the chocolate factory,blue velvet,sin city,who killed roger rabbit,wizard of oz,mad mad monster party,barbarella,rocky horror picture show,faster pussy cat,phantasm,the nine lives of fritz the cat,the wall,donnie darko,texas chainsaw massacre,ice age,man with the golden arm,naked lunch,south pacific,van helsing,pollock,laberynth,TEAM AMERICA !!!!!,blow, gold member ,etc etc etc......

Television:

i miss the simpsons ,i miss southpark ,i miss i love lucy re runs ,i miss gilligans island ,the munsters ,i miss the old jerry springer show when they were allowed to beat the shit out of each other ,basically i miss hearing things in english !my wife makes me watch das perfekt dinner ,frauen tausche ,i refuse to watch linden strasse !mostly i listen to television when i paint or draw my attention span isnt long enough to watch much television these days im too busy trying to be half as skilled as the next guy in the tattoo world and the news just depresses me but i still watch it ???

Books:

nexxus,sexxus,plexxus,the air conditioned nightmare,tropic of cancer,tropic of capricorn, queer,junky,(basically anything by burroughs) ham on rye, post office, hot water music,women,(anything by bukowski)black spring,steppenwolfe,siddharta,heaven and hell,doors of perception,the giza power plant,vimana aircraft of ancient india and atlantis,technologies of the gods,harry potter series,mary shelleys frankenstein,permanent midnight,perve- (a love story),perfume, celestine prophecys , etc etc etc,

Heroes:

BOB ROSS (the painter guy on television with the white man afro )he rocks !!!!!!!!!!!!!happy clouds tap tap tap !!!!

My Blog

MY CRAZY ADVENTURES AS A TATTOO ARTIST ( a work in progress !!)

i really dont know where to begin ive had so many crazy tattoo shop stories .this will be a continuing blog ,and when i remember a good one ill write it down .the one that stands out in my mind the mo...
Posted by MIKE KOBO on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:36:00 PST

journal of demons past

 this was written in my journal over 15 years ago in another lifetime hope you enjoy  mike  ...............she had asked the qeustion , that i knew would inevitably be asked .as i held ...
Posted by MIKE KOBO on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:30:00 PST