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Shannon Shirley

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  1. why don't you all chase Jack?, Tim Hendricks, GTC, the shit takes great talent. heres my issue. i couldnt take the pressure of a street shop. its too hard to pour your soul out to people and their blood ,that just want more. I don't get it. I wanna work for Bert Krak. really, do people get that rough stuff everyday nowdays? come on. Im ready. I can do that . no offense Bert ,love it. cant believe their are that many goofy kids out there. God, I hope so.

  2. lets not forget, shotsie,kevin brady ,sailor moses, pj english, cw eldrich, i dont know where to stop. these fuckers survived. they didnt stop. i came after them, but they survived the worst. the 70s. when only a moron would get tattooed. Oh shit sorry,Martin Robson, this fucker worked at Lyles above the old greyhound station in SF. God bless his ass.

  3. at GoodTime Charlies in Modesto ,the whole time i worked there,thier was a barbershop nextdoor,3 bucks a haircut ,they would line up to keep them haircuts. I apprciated it ,comb in the blue sanitizer,hot lather, oh yeah. its now charlies little museum. at least it was 6-7yrs ago. Oh and the bikers strippers and waitresses ,im not sure where all yall work,but not all of america is so civilized.

  4. not having "rites of passage" as a "normal" part of our postmodern american lives,unless like a lot of americans you grew up in a crappy neighborhood or barrio. We, having lost these important marking points ,seem to go ahead and create them. Ive been getting tattooed since 84' ,Ive got the ol' hodge podge,because it grew,I marked moments in my life when they happened. I look at most of the crap ive got and think of the good and bad times,people gone and people moved on. when people ask me what those pictures mean ,i can't help but tell some story, important or stupid. i never seem to know why i got a tattoo till much later. So to me there wasnt a reason ,but definetly a marking. figuratively and literally. I tattooed and still do, and always want to tell the recepient, but always bite my tongue, that they probably have no idea yet,as they tell us thier exact reason for getting the mark. I feel like a lot of people are missing the "mark" , when they say to me and maybe to you, "yeah, I wanna get sleeved". and although im pretty heavily tattooed, they'll say " your not really sleeved are you?". I didn't start gettin this stuff to impress. It is frightening to think that people get tattooed to impress. Do it because you have to. Not because all the cool kids are doin it. I never felt ,as a tattooer i had much personal style, everybody elses stuff always looked much better,they all seemed to have so much personal style. I could never get anybody to do what i wanted to do. Ive always been a customers tattooer. Maybe i just suck, some of those that know me might agree. I have struggled with this shit for a long time. I think i always took it so seriously ,that it has always been hard. Sorry, maybe I missed the thread here. I often tell people tattoos are stupid and dont mean shit because i dont think they "get it". If you really want to be cool, get a hotrod or some cool threads. my ol mans pretty cool at 71 ,he never got a tattoo. but my mom did, i did it about 7yrs ago ,she was in her 60's. it means a lot to her, i dont really like it, but that dont matter does it?

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