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neverwhereI have a tattoo!
I've been thinking of getting one for at least fifteen years, but I've always been too afraid, and (of course) I couldn't decide what I wanted. But now I have one and I couldn't be more pleased with how well it turned out, and how much it means to me.
It's a gorgeous dark purple (slightly darker than my journal background) and located just above my ankle on my left leg. It's tengwar, and says 'tookish' -- there wasn't any real translation into Sindarin, so it's just the phonetic spelling of the phrase with elvish writing, but I don't mind at all, it's what the word means to me that matters. I'm a Took forever and always. :)
Yesterday I spent the day with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
achtung_meggy and (all too briefly) undomiel_tari, and they were very supportive and reassuring about getting it done, as they have tattoos as well. Meggy's friend Yanni did it for me, and even though it HURT LIKE HELL (oh ye gods the pain) it still wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting, although this is probably because I made sure the position was on a fleshy bit, not bone. I was screaming inside at the time, but I can see how they can become highly addicting, as I'm already contemplating what I want to do next (a circle of stars around my ankle like a bracelet, the White Tree of Gondor on my shoulder, Dave Mckean's artwork for the cover of Neverwhere...), isn't that strange? People with obsessive personalities should never be allowed to get one, it only leads to trouble. *grins*
Remember when I saw Graham Norton in December 2003 and was on tv? The same company had another live taping and I got to see Tracey Ullman's new show on thursday night, which will be shown on HBO in may, so you get to look for me in the audience once again! I adore Tracey Ullman, she's so immensely talented, I'd give anything for her improvisation skills, and I certainly wasn't disappointed by her show, which was basically her autobiography acted out with some of the characters she's created over the years to help tell the story. I believe it's called 'Tracey Ullman: Live and Exposed' and you have to watch it when it airs, I know you'll laugh yourself stupid like I did. :)
This week I also saw the new Muppets Wizard of Oz movie (when I should have been working, but I was having a severely crap day and frankly I didn't care, it was only an hour anyway), and I can safely say that while these certainly weren't the Muppets I grew up with, they're still Muppets, and anything with Muppets is always a good thing. It wasn't a finished film, there was still alot of CGI work that needed to be done, but it still played very well, and was (mostly) entertaining. Ashanti wasn't the best Dorothy, but she looked good, and related well to the puppets, and kids will probably like her. Kermit was the Scarecrow, Gonzo the Tin Thing, Fozzie the Lion, and Miss Piggy, in her strangest yet seemingly most obvious role ever, a Dominatrix Biker-Babe Wicked Witch of the West. Yeah, it's really not the Muppets we used to know. There was a seriously disturbing scene with Gonzo and the Wizard of Oz, when the Wiz appears to him as a giant chicken, asking if his girlfriend Camilla had 'a beak as big as mine' or 'great big flapping wings' -- in a provoctively sexual voice that was extremely creepy and made me squirm. Maybe it'll look (and hopefully feel) differently in the finished product. But for the most part, it was rather fun, with some hummable songs, good jokes and welcome cameos from all our favourite characters. I don't know when it will air (most likely this summer), but I hope it does well so we can look forward to more Muppety goodness in the future.
omgIhaveatattoooooooooo! :D
I've been thinking of getting one for at least fifteen years, but I've always been too afraid, and (of course) I couldn't decide what I wanted. But now I have one and I couldn't be more pleased with how well it turned out, and how much it means to me.
It's a gorgeous dark purple (slightly darker than my journal background) and located just above my ankle on my left leg. It's tengwar, and says 'tookish' -- there wasn't any real translation into Sindarin, so it's just the phonetic spelling of the phrase with elvish writing, but I don't mind at all, it's what the word means to me that matters. I'm a Took forever and always. :)
Yesterday I spent the day with
achtung_meggy and (all too briefly) undomiel_tari, and they were very supportive and reassuring about getting it done, as they have tattoos as well. Meggy's friend Yanni did it for me, and even though it HURT LIKE HELL (oh ye gods the pain) it still wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting, although this is probably because I made sure the position was on a fleshy bit, not bone. I was screaming inside at the time, but I can see how they can become highly addicting, as I'm already contemplating what I want to do next (a circle of stars around my ankle like a bracelet, the White Tree of Gondor on my shoulder, Dave Mckean's artwork for the cover of Neverwhere...), isn't that strange? People with obsessive personalities should never be allowed to get one, it only leads to trouble. *grins*Remember when I saw Graham Norton in December 2003 and was on tv? The same company had another live taping and I got to see Tracey Ullman's new show on thursday night, which will be shown on HBO in may, so you get to look for me in the audience once again! I adore Tracey Ullman, she's so immensely talented, I'd give anything for her improvisation skills, and I certainly wasn't disappointed by her show, which was basically her autobiography acted out with some of the characters she's created over the years to help tell the story. I believe it's called 'Tracey Ullman: Live and Exposed' and you have to watch it when it airs, I know you'll laugh yourself stupid like I did. :)
This week I also saw the new Muppets Wizard of Oz movie (when I should have been working, but I was having a severely crap day and frankly I didn't care, it was only an hour anyway), and I can safely say that while these certainly weren't the Muppets I grew up with, they're still Muppets, and anything with Muppets is always a good thing. It wasn't a finished film, there was still alot of CGI work that needed to be done, but it still played very well, and was (mostly) entertaining. Ashanti wasn't the best Dorothy, but she looked good, and related well to the puppets, and kids will probably like her. Kermit was the Scarecrow, Gonzo the Tin Thing, Fozzie the Lion, and Miss Piggy, in her strangest yet seemingly most obvious role ever, a Dominatrix Biker-Babe Wicked Witch of the West. Yeah, it's really not the Muppets we used to know. There was a seriously disturbing scene with Gonzo and the Wizard of Oz, when the Wiz appears to him as a giant chicken, asking if his girlfriend Camilla had 'a beak as big as mine' or 'great big flapping wings' -- in a provoctively sexual voice that was extremely creepy and made me squirm. Maybe it'll look (and hopefully feel) differently in the finished product. But for the most part, it was rather fun, with some hummable songs, good jokes and welcome cameos from all our favourite characters. I don't know when it will air (most likely this summer), but I hope it does well so we can look forward to more Muppety goodness in the future.
omgIhaveatattoooooooooo! :D
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Date: 2005-02-20 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-20 05:44 pm (UTC)Thank you so much!
I'm completely enamoured of the White Tree, and even though it would be far larger (and more painful) than anything else I could have, I think it's what I really want; it's just so beautiful, and gives me so much hope. :)
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Date: 2005-02-20 05:45 pm (UTC)I've been looking at designs for #4 lately--I want the Scorpio symbol, somewhat stylized but still recognizable, no actual scorpions--but I'm not seeing anything that really strikes me yet. Plenty of time to deliberate, of course.
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Date: 2005-02-20 06:13 pm (UTC)I saw so many hilariously bad scorpion designs at the tattoo studio (scorpion bodies with flaming skulls/naked lady heads were particuarly amusing), I certainly hope you don't decide on anything quite so interesting. *smirks*
I do really like the symbol for Virgo, and I'm exceedingly Virgoen (is that even a word?), so maybe I'll get something like that too. Oh, the ideas! My brain hurts. *giggles*
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Date: 2005-02-20 05:47 pm (UTC)(And I promise your package will go out on Monday! I have it all wrapped up and addressed on my floor, I've just been too scatterbrained and poor to send it yet!)
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Date: 2005-02-20 05:52 pm (UTC)OSCARSTEPHENFRYLDE*Re: icon keywords: "it worked for Oscar."
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Date: 2005-02-20 05:55 pm (UTC)I'm with you on Tracey Ullman, I've been a fan of hers for forever -- I even have the Broke my heart in 17 pieces album on vinyl. Sheesh, I'm old. The new show sounds brilliant though. Every time I've seen a show that's supposedly being taped for broadcast on HB0 (specificially Eric Idle's Exploits Python tour and Eddie Izzard's Sexie), they never get shown. *glares at HBO*
I've heard mixed things about the Oz film -- I'll probably wait to see it on cable. I think it's never going to be the same without Jim and especially now that Disney's bought the Muppet franchise, although I think they'll do okay with it. It's just not the same with different writers etc. I'm more interested to see what Henson is going to do now that they've decided to focus on more interesting things like Mirrormask. :)
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Date: 2005-02-20 06:30 pm (UTC)Disney buying the Muppets has really spoiled quite alot of the original Henson charm, but I won't give up on them just yet. *G*
Lisa Henson seems to know what she's doing, and if Neil trusts her, that's good enough for me. :)
I would desperately love to get something Neil-related tattooed, but there are far too many choices, and I doubt if anything would be small enough to translate well onto my body -- I don't want any large, in your face tattoos, or anything in a prominent place, so that rather narrows the field down a bit. The flaming design around the Neverwhere title would of course be my #1 choice, but there's just no way I could ever be so daring and courageous. *sheepish grin*
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Date: 2005-02-20 06:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-20 09:08 pm (UTC)Thank youuuuuuu! *smoochies*
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Date: 2005-02-20 06:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-20 09:15 pm (UTC)I really am ridiculously proud of myself for havine it done. :)
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Date: 2005-02-20 06:26 pm (UTC)I really like that tattoo. I've wanted to get one for a while but I dunno what I want. I think I know where I want it, though. Did you get it done at a place or at someone's house (since you said your friend's friend did it)?
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Date: 2005-02-20 06:40 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-02-20 07:06 pm (UTC)Now I'm frightened of the Muppet movie. I hope you're right about it being different in the finished product! The last thing they put out that I actually liked without reservation was A Muppet Christmas Carol, so we'll just have to see...
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Date: 2005-02-20 09:59 pm (UTC)I didn't mean to frighten you! We shall both think positive thoughts, I'm sure the Muppets won't let us down.
I hope.
No, they won't. See? I feel better already. ;-)
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Date: 2005-02-20 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-20 09:57 pm (UTC)Whoa.
I love the Map very much, but...wow. Ermm. Yeah. *speechless*
*laughs*
I think that might take a few years to finish -- you must reaaaaally enjoy pain. *chuckles* ;-)
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Date: 2005-02-20 07:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-20 09:52 pm (UTC)*bouncesquee*
Everyone likes it! Especially me! WHOOOOT! *laughs*
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Date: 2005-02-20 08:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-20 09:50 pm (UTC)Awwww that's so sweet!
My story isn't nearly that adorable, but I'm sure in ten years I'll still look at it fondly and with love. :)
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Date: 2005-02-20 08:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-20 09:47 pm (UTC)*blushes happily*
Thank you! Knowing that other people think it's beautiful too makes me all the more thrilled. *squish!*
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Date: 2005-02-20 09:19 pm (UTC)♥♥♥
You're coming w/ me for my elvish one!!
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Date: 2005-02-20 09:44 pm (UTC)I'm a bit frightened by how much I want to get another one done, the ideas and pictures have been swimming through my brain since last night and I don't know what to dooooooooo. *mope* *giggles*
Doood, I like, love you, n'stuff. A LOT. *smooosh*
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Date: 2005-02-20 11:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-21 02:09 am (UTC)Ashanti in a Muppet movie makes me want to destroy my television, however.
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Date: 2005-02-21 12:39 pm (UTC)*bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuush*
Wow. That means so much to me Ash. Thank you. :))))))
(I was trying to be diplomatic about Ashanti. Her acting skills are appalling, but she did look like she was having a good time with Kermit and the gang. But then, who wouldn't?)
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Date: 2005-02-21 03:20 am (UTC)when are you going to be around Edinburger again? I am making plans to be in scotland around then so as to bump into you and Trukkle et al!
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Date: 2005-02-21 12:37 pm (UTC)I arrive friday night, 11 March, the wedding is the 12th, and I'll be in Edinburgh until tuesday or weds. I still haven't decided my leaving date, which I suppose I should do rather soon. *G*
I want dwaggincuddles! :D
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Date: 2005-02-21 07:10 am (UTC)I've always sorta-kinda wanted a tattoo, but my problem is that I change my mind SO MUCH, I'd never be able to live with one design the rest of my life. I'd need a tattoo that I could change daily. And that would start to hurt after a while.
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Date: 2005-02-21 12:36 pm (UTC)A tattoo that changed ever day is EXACTLY what I need. I'm the most indecisive person I've ever known, so I really am quite shocked that I could find something I liked and still keep liking for more than a week. It's a miracle I tell ya! ;-D
*gorgeous*
Date: 2005-02-21 07:58 am (UTC){and i think that they are truly addictive, because i got my second one rather quickly after my first, and was only forced to stop by having no time/money to finish getting the thousands of designs i came up with in the meantime... '-}
the tracey ullman sounds nifty! but i think i'll reserve judgement on the muppets, and hope, as you do, that a few things are worked out before release...
::shrinking from the ominous-sounding wiz with the big beak & what-not...!::
yaaaaaaaaay for new tattoos!!!
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Date: 2005-02-21 12:35 pm (UTC)The whole sequence with the Wiz was incomplete, as it is supposed to be all CGI and none of it had been finished yet, so I only saw the actors (well, muppets) reacting to a shapeless talking blob. I reaaaaaally hope it doesn't turn out as disturbing as it sounds. Because I think I would be scarred for life. *G*
So many pretty designs, so little money. I suppose this is a good thing. *grins*
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Date: 2005-02-21 12:31 pm (UTC)But I would specifically want just the title, like this:
If I was brave, that is. Which I'm not. ;-)
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Date: 2005-02-21 09:57 am (UTC)2. The Muppets are deffinitely getting a little disturbing. A couple of years ago they did a Christmas special (NOT the Dicken's Christmas Carol one) that was more like It's A Wonderful Life, and the Muppet theatre was a rave bar and Scooter was dancing in a cage. Little creepy
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Date: 2005-02-21 12:17 pm (UTC)Hehehehe I knew you'd be happy for me. *bouncesquish*
Scooter the cage dancer!? Sweet jeebus, the nightmares....*shudder*
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Date: 2005-02-21 12:15 pm (UTC)*I* thought it was exceedingly painful, but I'm sure that in comparision to any others it was nothing. *G*
I chose 'tookish' because I'm so very much like Pippin Took from LOTR, and the Took family in general. I just am a Took. Go me. :)
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Date: 2005-02-21 10:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-21 12:06 pm (UTC)Of course I'll come with you! Silly Carly. *noseysmooch* :)
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Date: 2005-02-21 01:54 pm (UTC)