Month: April 2019

It took awhile for me to get moving this morning like someone was supposed to be here to serve them some breakfast. I finally did three budgets ahead for the first time in my life to make sure I can get to Austin and back with vegan goodies and a third ink blotter on the right side. It’ll be a close one because I’m budgeting a lot for my first convention tattoo ever in the beginning of June. Suddenly I caught a new wave while listening to Payton again hosting on Thunder Radio. I was then eating some spiced Texan potatoes (Non-GMO of course) looking at the Villain Arts website thinking if I could go out of town to get another tattoo this year. Well New Orleans isn’t until the beginning of September and a fairly close bus ride. So, I’ll probably do another favorites list with several of the other upcoming conventions. If I didn’t choose or get to work with Marlo again, I already like Diego Persol and Brooke Eveland. Diego has this head tat posted on instagram (March 4th) that I was staring at for awhile when ‘Get Up’ by Shinedown played while I was thinking…”What does this person do for a living?” Brooke Eveland has a lot of traditional tattoo pages she draws that look like all the ones you see on the wall of tattoo shops that are pretty impressive. Though she has many clients with like daggers going in and out of the skin on that semi-disturbing realistic effect, I guess that is the trend right now in her shop.

Dave Matthews Band 5.17 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Woodlands cab or car, David Gray 5.24 Revention public transit , Ariana 5.19 Toyota Center public transportation, Hootie & The Blowfish 6.14 Cynthia, Twenty One Pilots 6.21 Toyota Center, Beck and Cage the Elephant 7.28 Cynthia Woods, 311 & Dirty Heads 8.6 White Oak Music Hall, 8.25 The Smashing Pumpkins & Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Cynthia Woods​

Besides digital music I have one physical album. I sold thank u, next to my favorite record/book shop in Montrose – Half Price Books.  I never listened to the last track, “break up with your girlfriend I’m bored”.  It brought my total cash up to $4.22.  You can buy and sell video games, DVDs, records, CDs, books, magazines, cards and more there.  They also have different locations I overheard today.  I walked around downtown for awhile taking some pictures that I’ll put on instagram with a theme I came up with quickly framing the tops of buildings, excluding most everything else.  I was thinking about what to spend the cash on at the same time.  As I got hungry and the battery said it was low with the power on, I started walking to take the bus back a different way.  On the way I saw the venue Clé where Felix Cartal will be playing at the end of next month.  It looks out of place with umbrellas sticking out of the open roof and a fancy entrance in a more bohemian part of town.  That place has a pool inside from online pictures and cabana like hang outs around the pool with the DJ on one end.  Not sure if there is swimming with a show at 10pm, but it’s going to be a new type of experience for a concert where I am going to see a DJ at.  Anyways on the way back, I decided to stop in the area which is like an India Town with different grocery shops and other Indian culture tucked between various shopping and what-not.  I was pretty sure I was going to get some spice or cooking additive, but I remember the last time I was there I missed going to the Indian music store.  I discovered it walking out of the grocery store having just pretty much zeroed out my balance split on two credit cards.  There it was across the street kind of laughing at me.  So, this time I went right there.  I don’t know if you remember the story about when I first started driving in Houston.  I listened to Radio Dabang almost exclusively every morning and afternoon on the road delivering around town.  Guddi Shah was my favorite and also the Rush Hour Show with DJAJ.  I was still not moved in anywhere and staying in like a messy Keanu Reeves hostel vibe place via airbnb when I commented on Guddi Shah.  I posted online for the first time in awhile publicly raving about how much I loved her show, music choices and general radio presence.  Then not long after, she left the show to do real estate.  I was shocked, tracked her down, emailed her eventually and asked what happened.  She appreciated the comment and said she would return if she got a good offer, but didn’t really divulge into what happened, so I didn’t pry.  Possibly it was just a temporary hire or something and she went back to her other job or it was not enough money for her lifestyle.  Later I asked if she knew of any Indian dance clubs and she never responded.  After she left the show started annoying me terribly.  I can’t explain it, but it even DJAJ to this day does my radio pet peeves like immediately when I tune in.  I say I’ll trust it this time and see if I can get back into the station.  I still avoid the channel and surf like someone with ADHD mostly skipping announcers in general; not to be disrespectful.  It’s like bad ESP.  I don’t drive as much as I did before, but the radio gets like that if you listen too much, even without the personal irritation.  Probably why truckers get Sirius or other self-programmed material.  Long story’s conclusion is that I bought a two volume Indian CD in which the salesperson said would be most similar to 99.5 Dabang for four dollars on the unofficial ‘three for ten’ sales table.  I’ll be thinking about Mix 5 Part Deux with a new CD breakdown for this first week into May with additional tattoo convention artists research.

Possibly it is switched around for others. I am going to break some news that won’t be totally definite until I make a deposit to secure my time at the convention. I researched all female tattoo artists going to both Houston and Dallas which I will post possibly tomorrow. My first two emails went out to contrasting styles and headliner ladies. One who was on Ink Master and the other who is also a performer. Marlo Marquise can be found online.  She responded fairly quickly and was my first response, so I agreed quickly to make a deposit as soon as I get paid.  I talked about a design and placement either on the other side of our lady shrine extending to my right foot or the elbow on my main sleeve on the left.  These are both in some of the most painful areas to get a tattoo, so although not intended, Marlo is not a stranger to pain.  See her links and catch my vibe.  Bad news is that the 4 gauge piercing is too big.  I slept with a 10 gauge piercing stabbed on the inside of my 8 gauge buffalo ring and woke up on the wrong side of the bed.  I  am still nowhere near putting the 8 gauge flesh plug in my nose hole because the ends are not soft as I thought and flange out to a near 4 gauge on the ends.  So I am afraid I am going to have to let it heal without any jewelry unless I can find a better solution for work. It will not heal like this piercing it everyday without looking more unattractive and that is not really my goal.  April’s piercing journey was expensive and painful.  Who knows what tattoo artwork I would have gained in lost skin space in this time, but possibly I never would have reached out to someone like Marlo in hopes of booking some of her tattooing time.

Will Sparks – Untouchable (feat. Aimee Dalton)
Afrojack x Jewelz & Sparks (feat. Emmalyn) – Switch
Funk Machine & Taku-Hero – Something (Quintino Remix)
Afrojack – Another Level
Armin van Buuren vs Shapov – La Résistance De L’Amour or The Last Dancer
Armin van Buuren feat. Sam Martin – Wild Wild Son (Richard Durand Remix)
Eximinds – Voyager
Darius Rucker – Hands On Me
Wet – Softens or Still Run (feat. Starchild and The New Romantic)
NF – Green Lights
Billie Eilish – When The Party’s Over (Felix Cartal Remix)
Breaking Benjamin – Tourniquet
Bring Me The Horizon – Mantra
Wheats – Poison
Cristoph & Quivver – In Name Only (Moonwalk Remix)
Tuccillo & Kiko Navarro – Auris (Canto A Obatala) [Creisi Solo Mix]
Kiko Navarro – Shining (Koki Dub)
Seether – Save Today
The Beach Boys – California Girls
Frank Sinatra – Luck Be A Lady

I have never been to this event. I don’t know what to think about having to build a concrete wall around it. Here is the link. Other than that I repierced my left ear where the skin grew over for more than ten years. After messing with my nose everyday, I just decided to push the one I wore in my nose for a day at work before I knew there was a rule against it and then lost the back. John said it was 10 karat gold with a real diamond and I believe him, so I’m not taking it out. I thought it fitting that I sold four seasons of Lost for a few dollars, two of which to buy a new back. Hey, the piercing was free… Anyways, go read that article and if it moves you to do what they need, then you have one or two days I think left. This is my comment for the record.