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My sister grabbed a bunch of Johnny Depp scans from the latest GQ (which I'd already seen, because I go out and flip through actual paper magazines at actual newsstands), in order to make a layout. "Look," she says, pointing to something I hadn't paid attention to. "His arm."
"...Now that's dedication," I said.
Thinking it over carefully, though, I honestly can't think of a better reason to get a tattoo. I don't even have pierced ears, so take it that I don't grok the pain-for-the-sake-of-decoration thing, or possibly decoration-for-the-sake-of-pain - to me the damn things really have to symbolise, not just look neat. And... YMMV, but there isn't much in a life that needs to be inked in. If it endures, it needs no reminder; if it doesn't endure, letting it go is generally the best course to take. Saves you from having to get it removed afterward.
A role, though, for an actor: living in someone else's skin for six months or a year, thinking their thoughts, speaking their words, crying their tears. That I could see, wanting some permanent memento of that.
It's kind of funny, in fact, because a number of the actors I like are all over tattoos. Depp, Angelina Jolie, Ekin Cheng even, if he counts. XD In all cases they've managed to turn them from bugs to features, in the sense that not only does it seem perfectly reasonable that they should have them, but it seems perfectly reasonable that their characters should have them as well. One can spot a few of Johnny Depp's in PotC. It's only a matter of time before someone writes them into fic...
joliefolie. Friend her, as you are obviously not bored enough with me talking about her constantly! Write her a Godric/Salazar drabble! Uhh - marvel at her white ferret icon!My sister grabbed a bunch of Johnny Depp scans from the latest GQ (which I'd already seen, because I go out and flip through actual paper magazines at actual newsstands), in order to make a layout. "Look," she says, pointing to something I hadn't paid attention to. "His arm."
"...Now that's dedication," I said.
Thinking it over carefully, though, I honestly can't think of a better reason to get a tattoo. I don't even have pierced ears, so take it that I don't grok the pain-for-the-sake-of-decoration thing, or possibly decoration-for-the-sake-of-pain - to me the damn things really have to symbolise, not just look neat. And... YMMV, but there isn't much in a life that needs to be inked in. If it endures, it needs no reminder; if it doesn't endure, letting it go is generally the best course to take. Saves you from having to get it removed afterward.
A role, though, for an actor: living in someone else's skin for six months or a year, thinking their thoughts, speaking their words, crying their tears. That I could see, wanting some permanent memento of that.
It's kind of funny, in fact, because a number of the actors I like are all over tattoos. Depp, Angelina Jolie, Ekin Cheng even, if he counts. XD In all cases they've managed to turn them from bugs to features, in the sense that not only does it seem perfectly reasonable that they should have them, but it seems perfectly reasonable that their characters should have them as well. One can spot a few of Johnny Depp's in PotC. It's only a matter of time before someone writes them into fic...
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Since you mentioned them in the same sentence...
Date: 2003-07-21 04:08 am (UTC)Last September in our very first French class (with one of the nicest teachers ever), we had to name ourselves, where we lived, our favourite food, movie, actor, actress, group, etc., basically all that blog profile stuff. I *hate* that sort of thing, but still named Angelina Jolie as favourite actress and was seriously considering Johnny Depp as actor, because of the 10,000 movies of his that Dad rented that summer, if you recall. ^^;; (Now I think back and regret not doing so, since no one thought of him and it would have been an opportunity for me to look smug. It just won't be the same next year... Svet braced herself and named Ewan McGregor. I think Eugenie might have had an influence.)
Useless anecdote, but what I mean to say is that the tattoos hadn't occurred to me. Wierd.
Since you mentioned them in the same sentence...
Date: 2003-07-21 06:41 am (UTC)Since you mentioned them in the same sentence...
Date: 2003-07-21 09:16 am (UTC)I named "no one in particular". In fact, I named that for almost everything including fave movie and group (I wasn't into Queen yet at the time).
And you're online at work. Hah-hah.