Friday, October 30, 2009

DMT AND KORN TONIGHT!!!







Nick(Drums)





Jamie(Vocals) and Dave(Guitar)





Alistar(Bass)





Jamie, Alistar, and Nick



Dave(Guitar)






BE THERE!




BE ABOUT IT!

General Parking = $5.00


Preferred Parking = $10.00


Valet Parking = $25.00








One More fail friday

DON'T TRY THIS, THIS WEEKEND
DRINK SAFELY.

Friday FAIL







Chick O the Day....Friday Pick

maria grazia cucinotta
Blue Girl

Hottest Chick O the Day

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Joke of the Day

Little Johnny was in class and the teacher announced that they were going to try something different to help everyone get to know each other a little better, and to help with their spelling.
She explained, "I want you to stand up and give us the occupation of your father, spell it, and say one thing he would give us all if he was here today."
The first student raised her hand to volunteer.

"Marcy," the teacher said. "You may go first."

Marcy replied, "My father is a banker. B-A-N-K-E-R and if he was here today, he would give us all a shiny new penny."

The teacher said, "Very nice, Marcy, who wants to go next?"

Kevin stood up and announced, "My father is a baker. B-A-K-E-R and if he was here today, he would give us all a freshly-baked cookie."

"Very good," the teacher told Kevin.

Jeff was next, and he said, "My father is an accountant. A-K, no wait, A-C-K, no..."

Before he could attempt to spell it once more, the teacher cut him off and told him to sit back down and to think about it for a while. When he thought he knew how to spell it, he could stand back up and try again.

Little Johnny raised his hand in excitement hoping to be acknowledged by the teacher. The teacher called on little Johnny to go next.

Johnny said, "My father is a bookie. B-O-O-K-I-E and if he was here today, he would give us all 20:1 odds Jeff will never be able to spell "accountant."

Double Quote of the day for Friday!

Quote of the Day

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Failed.

Chick 'O' the Week / Day (for week 1)

Hottest Chick 'O' the Week

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Chick 'O'the Day (you choose)

side boob girl

Chick 'O' the Day (you choose)

blonde sexy soldier

Joke of the Day

Little Johnny walks into his dad's bedroom and sees him sliding on a condom. His father tries to hide it by bending over, as if to look under the bed.
Little Johnny asks curiously, "What are you doing, Dad?"
His father quickly replies, "I thought I saw a mouse go underneath the bed."
Little Johnny replies, "What are you gonna do -- screw him?"

Weekly Fail

Four apparently quite bored people in their early 20s were arrested in September in Bennington, Vt., after a Chili's restaurant burglar alarm sounded at 4:30 a.m. According to police, the four intended to remove and steal the large chili on the restaurant's sign, using a hacksaw and power drill. However, not possessing a battery-operated drill, they had strung extension cords together running to the nearest outlet they could find, which was 470 feet away, across four lanes of highway and through a Home Depot parking lot.

Chick 'O' the Day

cammy enrique

Quote of the Day


Jay's 2nd Tatu


Yesterday, another buddy of mine decided to do his Second tattoo on himself.
We showed him a couple things on his first tattoo and kind of walked him through it. This time, we set up the machine and his work station and let him go to town. He did an EXCELLENT job this second time around! I just want to say congratulations Jay, on takin care of biz! Don't get too big headed though. There's much more to learn from here on out. Next mission will be the shading on this and the first tattoo (iron cross and skull).
Keep an eye out for Jay's latest self-tatu accomplishments coming soon!

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

MY new Tatu'

This is my Apocolyptic Warrior Tattoo outline that Will did yesterday.

I LOVE IT WILL! Thankya brother!

I can't wait for the awesome solid shading you're going to shovel in there.

This outline HURT LIKE A MF!

I'll keep you updated on this badboy's status.

Koi Fish Tattoo




I shaded this tattoo (in progress) this week for my buddy Charlie. He's been quite the patient client with this tattoo. I did the outline years ago but never had a chance to finish it until now.
So here we are, ready for stage 3 (color in the solid black) and on to stage 4 (color in with color).

Stay tuned for where this goes.



Day Of the Dead (All Souls Day)











Coming up soon, November 1st, is the Day of the Dead
More than 500 years ago, when the Spanish Conquistadors landed in what is now Mexico, they encountered natives practicing a ritual that seemed to mock death.
It was a ritual the indigenous people had been practicing at least 3,000 years. A ritual the Spaniards would try unsuccessfully to eradicate.
A ritual known today as Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.
The ritual is celebrated in Mexico and certain parts of the United States, including the Valley.
Celebrations are held each year in Mesa, Chandler, Guadalupe and at Arizona State University. Although the ritual has since been merged with Catholic theology, it still maintains the basic principles of the Aztec ritual, such as the use of skulls.
Today, people don wooden skull masks called calacas and dance in honor of their deceased relatives. The wooden skulls are also placed on altars that are dedicated to the dead. Sugar skulls, made with the names of the dead person on the forehead, are eaten by a relative or friend, according to Mary J. Adrade, who has written three books on the ritual.
The Aztecs and other Meso-American civilizations kept skulls as trophies and displayed them during the ritual. The skulls were used to symbolize death and rebirth.
The skulls were used to honor the dead, whom the Aztecs and other Meso-American civilizations believed came back to visit during the monthlong ritual.
Unlike the Spaniards, who viewed death as the end of life, the natives viewed it as the continuation of life. Instead of fearing death, they embraced it. To them, life was a dream and only in death did they become truly awake.
"The pre-Hispanic people honored duality as being dynamic," said Christina Gonzalez, senior lecturer on Hispanic issues at Arizona State University. "They didn't separate death from pain, wealth from poverty like they did in Western cultures."
However, the Spaniards considered the ritual to be sacrilegious. They perceived the indigenous people to be barbaric and pagan.
In their attempts to convert them to Catholicism, the Spaniards tried to kill the ritual.
But like the old Aztec spirits, the ritual refused to die.
To make the ritual more Christian, the Spaniards moved it so it coincided with All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day (Nov. 1 and 2), which is when it is celebrated today.
Previously it fell on the ninth month of the Aztec Solar Calendar, approximately the beginning of August, and was celebrated for the entire month. Festivities were presided over by the goddess Mictecacihuatl. The goddess, known as "Lady of the Dead," was believed to have died at birth, Andrade said.
Today, Day of the Dead is celebrated in Mexico and in certain parts of the United States and Central America.
"It's celebrated different depending on where you go," Gonzalez said.
In rural Mexico, people visit the cemetery where their loved ones are buried. They decorate gravesites with marigold flowers and candles. They bring toys for dead children and bottles of tequila to adults. They sit on picnic blankets next to gravesites and eat the favorite food of their loved ones.
In Guadalupe, the ritual is celebrated much like it is in rural Mexico.
"Here the people spend the day in the cemetery," said Esther Cota, the parish secretary at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. "The graves are decorated real pretty by the people."
In Mesa, the ritual has evolved to include other cultures, said Zarco Guerrero, a Mesa artist.
"Last year, we had Native Americans and African-Americans doing their own dances," he said. "They all want the opportunity to honor their dead."
In the United States and in Mexico's larger cities, families build altars in their homes, dedicating them to the dead. They surround these altars with flowers, food and pictures of the deceased. They light candles and place them next to the altar.
"We honor them by transforming the room into an altar," Guerrero said. "We offer incense, flowers. We play their favorite music, make their favorite food."
At Guerrero's house, the altar is not only dedicated to friends and family members who have died, but to others as well.
"We pay homage to the Mexicans killed in auto accidents while being smuggled across the border," he said. "And more recently, we've been honoring the memories of those killed in Columbine."

Holy WTF?


Another Senior Moment

"Grandma"
Grandma is eighty-eight years old and still drives her own car. Shewrites:
Dear Grand-daughter,
The other day I went up to our local Christian book store and saw a ‘Honk if you love Jesus’ bumper sticker ..
I was feeling particularly sassy that day because I had just come from a thrilling choir performance, followed by a thunderous prayer meeting..
So, I bought the sticker and put it on my bumper.
Boy, am I glad I did; what an uplifting experience that followed.
I was stopped at a red light at a busy intersection, just lost in thought about the Lord and how good he is, and I didn’t notice that the light had changed.
It is a good thing someone else loves Jesus because if he hadn’t honked, I’d never have noticed.
I found that lots of people love Jesus!
While I was sitting there, the guy behind started honking like crazy, and then he leaned out of his window and screamed, ‘For the love of God!’
‘Go! Go! Go! Jesus Christ, GO!’
What an exuberant cheerleader he was for Jesus!
Everyone started honking!
I just leaned out my window and started waving and smiling at all those loving people.
I even honked my horn a few times to share in the love!;There must have been a man from Florida back there because I heard him yelling something about a sunny beach.
I saw another guy waving in a funny way with only his middle finger stuck up in the air.
I asked my young teenage grandson in the back seat what that meant.
He said it was probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something.
Well, I have never met anyone from Hawaii , so I leaned out the window and gave him the good luck sign right back.
My grandson burst out laughing.
Why even he was enjoying this religious experience!!
A couple of the people were so caught up in the joy of the moment that they got out of their cars and started walking towards me.
I bet they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but this is when I noticed the light had changed.
So, grinning, I waved at all my brothers and sisters, and drove on through the intersection.
I noticed that I was the only car that got through the intersection before the light changed again and felt kind of sad that I had to leave them after all the love we had shared.
So I slowed the car down, leaned out the window and gave them all the Hawaiian good luck sign one last time as I drove away. Praise the Lord for such wonderful folks!!
Will write again soon,
Love, Grandma

Redneck pickup lines

Sure-fire Redneck Pick-up Lines
Did you fart? Cuz you blew me away.
Are yer parents retarded? Cuz ya sure are special.
My Love fer you is like diarrhea. I can’t hold it in.
Do you have a library card? Cuz I’d like to sign you out.
Is there a mirror in yer pants? Cuz I can see myself in em.
If you was a tree & I was a Squirrel, I’d store my nuts in yer hole.
You might not be the best lookin girl here, but beauty’s only a light switch away.

Man – ‘Fat Penguin!’
Woman – ‘WHAT?’
Man – ‘I just wanted to say something that would break the ice.'
I know I’m not no Fred Flintstone, but I bet I can make yer bed-rock.
I can’t find my puppy, can you help me find him? I think he went inta this cheap motel room…
Yer eyes are as blue as window cleaner.
If yer gunna regret this in the mornin, we kin sleep til afternoon.
AND .. the best for last!
Yer face reminds me of a wrench, every time I think of it, my nuts tighten up.

Girls night out.

Girls Night Out
Two women friends had gone for a girls’ night out.Both were very faithful and loving wives, however they had gotten over-enthusiastic on the Bacardi Breezers.
Incredibly drunk and walking home they needed to pee, so they stopped in the cemetery.
One of them had nothing to wipe with so she thought she would take off her panties and use them.
Her friend, however, was wearing a rather expensive pair of panties and did not want to ruin them.
She was lucky enough to squat down next to a grave that had a wreath with a ribbon on it, so she proceeded to wipe with that.
After the girls did their business, they proceeded to go home.
The next day, one of the women’s husbands was concerned because his normally sweet and innocent wife was still in bed hung over, so he phoned the other husband and said:“These girls’ nights out have got to stop! I’m starting to suspect the worst. My wife came home with no panties!!”
“That’s nothing” said the other husband. “Mine came back with a card stuck to her butt that said..
“From all of us at the Fire Station.We’ll never forget you.”

This is just FUNNY!


Found this on another blog recently. Soo awesome!

Biomechanical Tattoo



I did this Biomechanical tattoo on my buddy (and tattooing partner) Will.

So far, this is the outline and shading done. The next step will be to color it in, but not completely ALL color. He would like to just add some more depth and
make it pop out a bit more. Stay tuned for the next step this tattoo makes.





CoLD Tattoo Re-Do


I recently re-inked in a tattoo I have on my inner calf. The logo for the band CoLD. I originally did this tattoo about 2 years ago, but never finished shading the whole thing. It faded pretty good as I was using a crappy type of ink, (Prism ink by superior) DO NOT use this ink! It fades rather easily and is tough to put in the skin in the first place. I now use a brand called Starbrite. This ink is great!
It goes in well and creates bright solid colors, and it stays bright (so far so good).



Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Sister Got Married!


On October 10th 2009, My sister Lisa got married to her boyfriend of 6 years,
Luis Acosta. I just got links to some of the pics so I'll post a few here.
Just want to say CONGRATULATIONS to the both of you and WELCOME to the Family Luis.
I will post more later.
LOVE YOU BOTH!

Monday, October 26, 2009

HALOS N HORNS MUSIC FEST

This coming friday October 30th 2009 I'm going to the Halos N Horns Music Festival in Costa Mesa, Ca. http://halosnhornsmusicfest.com/#

This is gonna be AWESOME! My buddies DMT will be playing the MAIN stage
at 6:30pm. This is such a great accomplishment for this group of guys because
every one of them is not only a great musician, but a great guy too. I believe this
will help them get out into the music scene in a much better light and bring them much closer to getting signed to a major label. These guys have had it rough, let me tell you. They've ALL been through numerous bands (some together) and numerous band mates simply trying to create the absolute BEST lineup possible. Well folks, I believe it was this year that it all came together.

They really do deserve a major label offering them a contract. Much much more than most of the bands I'm hearing on the radio. The music is very dynamic, especially for a metal band. What I really LOVE about DMT is the way their sound takes you away from reality without droning out or putting me to sleep.
It's like TooL on speed. In a good way.

GO SEE THEM!!!!!!

Here's the Lineup for Friday:
Korn – Shiny Toy Guns – Shwayze feat Cisco Adler – Iglu and Hartly – Far East Movement – Kids at the Bar – Emarosa – Villains – I Am Ghost
13 Killings – 2 Buk Chuk – 7th Arsenal – Action Star Addicts – Age of Aquarius – Alma En Guerra – Anna Vexa – Back to Square One – Better Off Dead(BOD) – Blue Embrace – Break the Circus – Break the Cycle – Burning Bed – Burning Red – Carl Gray -Champagne Blvd – Commonwealth -Condemned to Exile – Courting Disaster – Cover Up Camio – Crowne Hill- DMT - Dreams of Redemption – Dreams Unseen – Droid – Ellerman – Endvice – Fallen Figure – False Witness – For the Ages – Ghost City – Gun Metal Groove – Harmful If Swallowed – Heavens Fall – Indovizualz – Inmost – Ironklad – Keef Koded – Killed By the State – Killer of the Rise -Kris Swanson & the Liberators – Late on Thursday – Lifeline – Light of Doom – Living Stone – Lost Souls – LoveChild - Masked Villains – Media Drone – N.M.E. – Osology – Pacific Dub – Phantom Communique – Poor Side – QDR – Ruach – Seedless – Sexual Harassment – Shotgun City – Sick Life – Still Phantoms – Stillpointe – The Family Shocks – The Feisty Piranhas – The Short Necked Giraffes – The Unknown -The Vegas Breakdown – Through the Roots – Transers – Violet Sun – Wheelchair Bandits – Without Papers


I highlighted some other bands that I feel are pretty good, the others.....I've never even heard of. However, I will post a review of the bands I do catch on friday.

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http://myspace.com/DMTvision

dmtmetal@gmail.com

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