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Perhaps I didn't make myself completely clear. The fact of the matter is that tattoos should always be a decision that requires a lot of though. Common sense should be one's guide when considering a tattoo. But, in my heart I'm an artist, and I believe expression is one of the most powerful things a human can do; and on that alone I support anyone's decision to ink their bodies. The key is to not be ****ing stupid about it. I actually know a young girl who has a lady-woohoo tattooed on her shoulder, and another with an ex's name on her ribcage. These tattoos are motivated by nothing but drunken stupidity and access to daddy's credit card. However, if done mindfully, with thought and precision and a deep sense of meaning.. I will consider it beautiful no matter the subject.

It's not so much the pens that make your penis bigger, but the computers that make it smaller.

Indeed, fountain pens are an expensive hobby and require a lot of maintenance. However, that practice alone is among one of the finest uses of an instrument man kind has ever ventured in both the manufacturing of the pen and what is written with it. It's sad, to me, to see the last vestiges of this art being consumed by every email sent. What I'm talking about isn't just the use of fountain pens, but the construction of words that come from a much more sincere part of one's heart. Plus, is owning and using a fountain pen any more expensive than owning and operating a computer?

Nightmare on Elm Street spanned so many years and impacted so many people, I find it hard to reduce it down to the mere scares it provided. Movies the likes of Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Scream, Chucky.. are never going to be replicated again. Contemporary horror films, save a handful of really good ones in the 90s, are pretty much nothing more than plotless anxiety machines with cheap jump scares. Anyone with a video camera can do it, as has been proven countless times before. The worst part is that we're still paying to see them.

I do agree about Jaws though, that **** was amazing.

Congratulations, you actually made me laugh! A feat most friends of mine would applaud you for. 'Lady woo-hoo', for whatever reason got a chuckle out of me. . . perhaps I've had one too many. The first point about tattoos was possibly well validated, but looking back about the horror aspect, I feel like being buzzed and sleepy bring the worst ideas, so I apologize for that drivel. . . I'm glad we agree on the tattoo issue, because that would have been awkward to deal with.

Again, what is it with you and the penises? I'm very worried for you. It's probably best we settle for pens > computer for the written word. . . although I must bring up that archaic piece of tech I like to call the 'typewriter', with all its carbon paper glory. While not technically a pen, or a computer, I believe it is hard to say that no good books were produced with the typewriter (I believe Jaws, the book itself, was 'written' with a typewriter, and the same can be said for most of the horror movies you mention). I think that the keyboard is just a type of spirit for the typewriter. That and some of my favorite authors use computers to produce their works these days. Sure, they still jot down thoughts and ideas on paper, but without the computer. . . I don't know. I believe it just comes down to the individual's responsibility to be smarter than the equipment they're using by at least 10%, so it wouldn't matter if the idiot was using a computer, or a pen, pencil, etc. it'd still be an idiot writing regardless of the tool.

No argument with the pricing of pens and computers here. But it became harder to not have a computer in the changing times. . .

Bah, forgot this drivel:

50's Rock over today's piss. I can't stand the popular radio stations playing 'what's new, and what's hip'. You can take that **** and shove it right back up where it came from. You can't breathe under water and feel 'fine', and you can't set fire to the rain. And I hate, no really hate Katy Perry and her stupid Roar. By the dark gods, it's absolutely insulting to have her put popular 70's culture into her trash. The only roar she should hear is the roar of a V-8 as it leaves her broken body lying in the dust. I'm sorry. Not really.

And the covers. Who in their right mind covers a Nirvana song? You can't do it. Stop. It just proves how much talent you lack as an artist for trying to cover something only to fail horribly!

The best, most entertaining cover I have ever heard? Bennie and the Jets by Elton John was covered by the Beastie Boys. I never truly enjoyed Elton John's music, so perhaps that's the thing that gets me. You must listen to the track albums, and not the live versions to fully comprehend what was really going on.