Right this minute I am sitting watching YouTube videos. Not those ridiculously funny ones you see on rudetube. But just some live music ones, recently I've been finding it difficult to listen to certain artists because of the emotions they evoke within me. But now I really don't care and I can listen to this and strum along freely. Just for all your entertainment, I'll post what I'm listening to this second on here, controversial to say the least. My favourite Smiths tune - well the one the video starts with.
I've also been sketching out a new tattoo I want. So many different designs have just been hidden away - I want somebody to give me like £5000 and tell me to go ahead and get all of the tattoos I want. I really think it's quite funny when people say things like "Why are you getting tattoos so young, you'll regret them when you're older". To be honest I don't really care if I look down at my body when I'm 40 and think "WTF". My tattoo's mean something to me right now, and everything I want to have means something to me. It don't even think tattoos have to mean something for a person to get them, some of the artwork I've seen on people is incredible, yet they try and justify it with a half-hearted reason. At the end of the day it doesn't really matter what anybody else thinks, we're all going to die naked eventually, so you may as well get a few pictures on your body. I don't think I've ever really explained what the quote on my forearm means to me, well not fully to anyone. It's hard too as well, because I don't think somebody would understand or get the explanation without knowing a shed-load of other background information to go with it. For those of you who don't know, I have the words "Albion is our Vessel, Arcadia is our Destination" along the lower region of my arm. I got this from a book called "The Books of Albion". They're basically a collection of scribbles, pictures and dairy entries so to speak from Pete Doherty. The full quote goes something like this... You'll probably guess why I didn't want it all.
"Albion is our vessel, Arcadia is our destination, and our starting point. One needn't have a classical education or a British passport; only imagination. Let it be what your heart desires, but let not your actions or desires infringe upon the liberty of others."
It goes a bit deeper with a bigger explanation on Arcadia - It's not the Greek translation that refers to utopia, it's more of his own grasp on the whole concept of a life with complete understanding and harmony. The reference to Albion within the quote is in idealistic vision of England spoken about by many other famous writers. Musically speaking Morrissey was one of those. I don't really know much about the writers that inspired Libertines like Pete to venture into Albion - but the idea's are definitely appealing to say the least. I started reading a book by Peter Ackroyd about Albion, but I put it down half way through to play Call of Duty or something I guess. Anyway I've rambled on about tattoos and one of my own for a bit, so below is a picture of the concept which my next piece is going to be about...
I'm guessing some people will get it from that, really don't want to explain it but it's just a piece based around one of the bits of that. The bit that starts, "not shy of a spark". I think I might try and go to sleep soon, I've developed some mild form of insomnia I think. I used to always wake up the next day and see people were last online on everything at like 4am and think, fuck, how do they manage to go to school and stuff. now I realise it does get hard to sleep sometimes. It's really quite horrible, considering nobody else is really around.
Peace out world x






