Am I Still Here?

I'm trying to revive my interest in actually keeping this blog going. Not that I want to ditch it, I just don't have tons of time to put something together to post. But I'm not giving up! (I am, however going to avoid J-pop music videos for a little while. I think my brain is adapting too quickly to translation-language. "We can do this together!" I don't want to sound like a walking subtitle).

I may have spoken to a few of you about what I'm planning for my geek-tastic tattoos. Granted, I'm broke as sin at the moment, but if I ever obtain money again I'm walking down to the neighborhood parlor and slapping these ideas down on the artist's table.

Right leg- I'm taking the sakura design from Yoshitaka Amano's cover art for the first issue of The Sandman: Dream Hunters. The branches will begin on the top of my foot and reach around my ankle, going higher across my calf. I'll have my black fox climb these branches, looking over his shoulder at the viewer. Again, artwork will be derived from Amano's work in Sandman. I just have to put together a composite of the images I want and presto.

Back/shoulder- Mostly shoulder, for the moment. This time the artist I'm looking at is Charles Vess (another Sandman artist, actually...) for the most part. I want chrysanthemum blossoms to curl over my left shoulder blade and over my right shoulder, ending just above my right collarbone. I'm taking the blossoms from traditional Asian tattoo styles, not Vess. Vess' work will supply the design for Hal Duncan's Jack and Puck, who'll get to chase each other across my back for the rest of my life. I know I can find a faun in Vess' repertoire to base Puck off of, but I'm expecting Jack to be a bit more difficult. I'm also leaving the bottom edge of the tattoo alone for hte time being, because there's no telling what I may want to add to it in the future. Payul and Leland?

Left arm?- Chain of narcissus blooms. "Nuff said.

Yeah, I'm still working on the final designs. Hopefully I'll be able to get to work on these before too much longer. Being poor sucks.

Currently reading: Peake's Gormenghast and various stories from Peter Straub's American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny From the 1940s Until Now. Loving both, especially Gormenghast even though it's taking me forever to read it. I still have half the mini-series to watch when I get the chance.