Football, No Beer, No Cigarettes, Spikes, Gin, Whisky, Cigarettes, Tattoo Lust, Haircuts, Heresy, and Drugs.

I just finished watching a miserable match of football between Aston Villa and WBA.

Villa--I'm not sure why--have lost all their desire this season. It's as if they think there's nothing left to fight for, even though they're far from safe. It was a miserable match, even with 10 men there was no attacking threat.

Paging through tattoo shops around town as I've been craving something new. I'm pretty broke, so it would almost have to be something that's small enough for me to afford. Still might do it. Finding Mario Desa's twitter account was pretty awesome, dude is legit.

Listening to the Fall. About to smoke a cigarette, change my sheets, take a shower, and get ready to go down to the Barber Shop for a haircut. Then I gotta get a hold of a buddy out of town who called in a favor that may be more difficult to accomplish than I initially suspected.

Shit bands playing at HoB, should I go?

Seriously disappointed at the shit football I woke up to witness. Whatever. Hope today isn't a total loss.

Tattoo San Chicago

Lately, I've been wanting to finish my left arm and try to get tattooed in Chicago.

It's not necessarily going to happen. The person who tattooed me in San Diego, CA is the almighty Rob Benavides. In fact, you can see my arm here. I feel like I need to wait to get in touch with Rob before trying to speak to other artists. Jackie Dunn Smith also tattoos with Rob at Flying Panther, and they're both artists that I need to contact soon. Check out the photo below that I found on Jackie's portfolio:



Clash reference? Hope so.

I've been on the hunt for some great artists in Chicago, of which there's no shortage, of course.

Mario Desa and Nick Colella of the Chicago Tattooing and Piercing Co. deserve honorable mention. I'm a huge fan. The shop is also supposed to be among the oldest in the nation.

Deluxe Tattoo is allegedly one of the best shops in the US. Jason Vaughn of Deluxe has a pretty impressive portfolio.

Mystic Tattoo on the corner of Cicero and Belmont is where a friend named Nick works, who does awesome, clean, traditional Americana style tattoos with a certain amount of panache.



Way too many good artists.