Ok, so next year will be my 20th Pulp anniversary. That plus my recent Pulp film antics have led me to think that I'm probably going to have this tattoo, down my left side (rib type area), which I know is a painful spot, but hey - it's not my first time.
What I need from you lovely people is your opinions on whether or not to have the word MIS-SHAPE underneath. If not, why? Would you have a different word? Or no word at all?
Ta.
-- Edited by Jarvgirl on Friday 18th of October 2013 09:48:41 PM
Hi Jarvgirl. This is only my opinion but I think a) this 'cartoon' Jarvis is miles cooler than a photo-style tattoo would be, as it is in the realm of a Pulp emblem more than anything, and b) I don't think it needs the label, as the image speaks for itself.
I've thought about a mis-shapes related tattoo (have since ruled it out in favor of the WLL font). I think the cartoon is not that weird or as bizarre as the person who got jarvis' entire face tattooed on their calf or something like that. Anyway nothing's weirder than this Thom Yorke tattoo right?:
I say go for it. It's a cute tattoo idea! And I feel like the ribs can't be all that much worse than the foot which is where I got my first tattoo and it wasn't really too bad even though it was all bone.
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Never really seen the appeal of them though this thread reminds me that I was in the Britpop pub du jour, The Good Mixer, during the week and couldn't believe how every second person in there was covered in tattoos. Though they, and the music played, seemed more metal-heads and goth rather than indie-heads.
I find the most perturbing thing about tattoos is the rather obvious question of permanence. Celebrating a 20th anniversary hardly counts as a impulsive, but you never know how you will feel about something into the future. I know I have a slightly ambiguous feeling about the Mis-Shape idea at the moment. It is the song I most strongly identify with and found extremely healing when I first heard it in 1995. But I have started to wonder if it is an identity I am now clinging onto despite myself as I move on in life, in the same manner as The Life of Brian's "You've taken away my bleeding livelihood". Truth is, despite the angst being a mis-shape causes, ultimately I like it and heaven forfend I ever turn out normal. I worked with some really normal people once a long time ago when I was a temp and they were really scary. I know over the last few years I have come to feel more differently about some long-standing aspects of my identity than I would have imagined not that long ago.
Sorry about the angsty rambling, but isn't that what Pulp are for?
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The permanence of this tattoo isn't a worry to me, i know things change but the Mis-Shapes id is really important to me. I still have Cocker's "make your flaws so big that they aren't flaws anymore" (it's along those lines) speech embedded in my brain.
You are right about very normal people, I find them quite scary also.
The permanence of this tattoo isn't a worry to me, i know things change but the Mis-Shapes id is really important to me. I still have Cocker's "make your flaws so big that they aren't flaws anymore" (it's along those lines) speech embedded in my brain.
You are right about very normal people, I find them quite scary also.
After a bit of consideration I have come back to agreeing with my original self. I still identify strongly with the mis-shape idea. I have some friends who seemed to find it a very negative idea and nicely but misguidedly wanted me to "recover" from it, which shook my conviction for a bit, but then I concluded that I really do find it liberating and not in any way negative, and not something I just hide behind as an excuse for social inadequacy. So I won't be chucking out my dodgy clay sculpture any time soon.
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Yeah, I hope so too. It's the song I have playing in my head whenever I wander past a gaggle of rowdy teens of an evening.
Haha, I used to abhor people having labels, until I found one that suited me. I'm a changeable get. Though I suppose you could say you were being "branded" (see what I did there? )
-- Edited by Beetlebum on Sunday 20th of October 2013 09:46:22 PM
I'm happy for you :) For me, before Mis-Shapes, being different and pale, skinny and a bit of a geek was hard to deal with. I can't see what could possibly be bad about changing that.
Now ive got children I try and teach them the same things Pulp taught us, that it's good to be different and clever and you can make your own decisions and not conform to peer pressure.
I'm happy for you :) For me, before Mis-Shapes, being different and pale, skinny and a bit of a geek was hard to deal with. I can't see what could possibly be bad about changing that.
Now ive got children I try and teach them the same things Pulp taught us, that it's good to be different and clever and you can make your own decisions and not conform to peer pressure.
I don't think I'd be the same person without it.
It's good to hear this, cos I get a bit embarrassed when people dismiss their identifying with something like "Mis-Shapes" as an adolescent phase, because it's an identity that seems really important to me - "us against them" rather than "them against me" - and I'd hate to think I'll just kind of outgrow it.
Also, props for getting a Mis-Shapes tattoo. Like the design, and the little label underneath.
I often thought of getting a pulp tatt but then I read this about superfans http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jun/24/meet-the-superfans-interview-celebrity.
I didn't want to end up like the Mika middle aged fan
also what about this guy! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2166552/Yorkshireman-39-15-Miley-Cyrus-tattoos-inked-body-pay-tribute-teenage-singer-helping-divorce.html
I dunno I don't think a tattoo to celebrate your favorite band is quite on par with those people....
Met a girl at a Radiohead show who had Thom Yorke sign her ribs and then the next day we saw her and she'd had it tattooed on her. That's probably where I draw the line.
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