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batskeetsOh MAN, the CD Swap was fun! I'm excited to see what everyone came up with. I've gotten lazy about keeping up with music in the past couple of years, and a lot of my musical energy went towards (re)discovering and diving deeper into older music like Zeppelin, Floyd, etc. I'm really hoping to find some great stuff on these Swap CDs that *wasn't* originally recorded 20+ years ago. :D
Putting together my own mix was HARD, though. I deliberately avoided the type of stuff you usually hear me do at karaoke, just because it'd be too obvious that it was my CD. The other challenges were paring the bloody list down to something that'd fit on a CD, and making the mix not sound completely disjointed. I do have eclectic taste, and I threw out a few songs that I really liked, because they just didn't fit at *all* with the rest.
I'm really pleased with my mix, though. It brought me back to music I hadn't heard in a while, and it made me incredibly happy to hear those songs again. They were songs that saw me through good times, and pulled me through some very bad ones.
Yesterday, I went out to the Trout(dale) as moral support, so Roommate could use a gift certificate and get pierced for the first time. The ears were a given, but this place apparently gives 50% off a second piercing on the same person, so Roommate got a lip piercing, too. Much to my surprise, while we were there, I was suddenly struck by a tattoo idea for myself! :O Outside of my pain tolerance of almost-nothing, my main obstacle with tattoos was not being able to come up with something I'd want to have on my body for the rest of my life.
I need to do a *lot* more research and make sure I'm using the right character, but it would likely be this character, which, according to my super-quick search of Teh Internets, means "martial spirit." It's the working title of the photobook I plan to put together later this year, and really, it's perfect. The spirit and energy of martial arts was the catalyst for a lot of positive changes in my life over the past few years, and I see myself practicing wushu, or at least taiji, for the rest of my life. I'll be carrying it with me in my mind and heart for life, so carrying a little tattoo as representation of that? Easy.
This is all very speculative, of course, and if I sit on the idea for a while and find I still want to do it, I'd do it small, and in an easily-concealed place. It wouldn't be about showing it to the world, anyway... it's much more personal than that. :)
Putting together my own mix was HARD, though. I deliberately avoided the type of stuff you usually hear me do at karaoke, just because it'd be too obvious that it was my CD. The other challenges were paring the bloody list down to something that'd fit on a CD, and making the mix not sound completely disjointed. I do have eclectic taste, and I threw out a few songs that I really liked, because they just didn't fit at *all* with the rest.
I'm really pleased with my mix, though. It brought me back to music I hadn't heard in a while, and it made me incredibly happy to hear those songs again. They were songs that saw me through good times, and pulled me through some very bad ones.
Yesterday, I went out to the Trout(dale) as moral support, so Roommate could use a gift certificate and get pierced for the first time. The ears were a given, but this place apparently gives 50% off a second piercing on the same person, so Roommate got a lip piercing, too. Much to my surprise, while we were there, I was suddenly struck by a tattoo idea for myself! :O Outside of my pain tolerance of almost-nothing, my main obstacle with tattoos was not being able to come up with something I'd want to have on my body for the rest of my life.
I need to do a *lot* more research and make sure I'm using the right character, but it would likely be this character, which, according to my super-quick search of Teh Internets, means "martial spirit." It's the working title of the photobook I plan to put together later this year, and really, it's perfect. The spirit and energy of martial arts was the catalyst for a lot of positive changes in my life over the past few years, and I see myself practicing wushu, or at least taiji, for the rest of my life. I'll be carrying it with me in my mind and heart for life, so carrying a little tattoo as representation of that? Easy.
This is all very speculative, of course, and if I sit on the idea for a while and find I still want to do it, I'd do it small, and in an easily-concealed place. It wouldn't be about showing it to the world, anyway... it's much more personal than that. :)
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Date: 2009-05-12 05:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-12 04:35 pm (UTC)What are you thinking of getting? :D
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Date: 2009-05-13 03:11 am (UTC)