IDIOT SAVANT (or avant idiots)
"For those of you who may be wondering what this is all about, you’re not alone.
We are, in fact, equally as lost on the true nature of this proposed column. When Crash
asked if I would be interested in writing for the magazine, my fear was not only that I’m
simply not that interesting, but I may also lack the wherewithal and pseudo-social skills
that one seems to need to possess in these types of affairs, so I did what any red-blooded
American would; recruit a cohort with promises of money and power. And, women.
And maybe a horse…but not a big horse, because that’s ridiculous.
I’ve known Ishmael for nearly the duration of my time here in Colorado, rolling
quickly past the three-year mark, and in that time, we’ve developed a pretty amazing
friendship based on mutual respect, mutual cynicism, cycling, and an absolute obsession
with tattooing that has led to some of the best times in my life, for certain. We realized
pretty early on that a lot of what we were making was harmonious, and as a lot of you
know, the kind of reciprocity that criticism from someone whose ideas run in the same
veins as yours is precious. It sparks quite a fire under your ass; somehow you always
find yourself in healthy competition. Whether it be kicking puppies or boxing the
elderly, cat memes or cage-fighting in Myanmar (oh sorry, Burma, if you’re gonna be
like that), it is a constant struggle to out-clever one another, to see who can crack up
who first, and it has all led to working together, drawing, painting, traveling, and bribing
the occasional senator.
It was my thought that the two of us could make some kind of shitty Voltron to
discuss with you whatever it is we will be discussing.
But I digress. We are going to be discussing a number of matters actually
relevant to tattooing, and probably a few that are not. This is also something in which
feedback is welcomed. We hope to provide something moderately entertaining, but we
would also like to be able to educate as well. There are plans, in no
particular order, to talk about the history of tattooing in Colorado, anatomy and it’s
usefulness in all of our day to day lives, traveling, food, the importance of creative outlets
outside of tattooing, and particularly why we didn’t start the fire. It was always burning."
-Dave and Ish
TO BE CONTINUED....