12:40 AM >> Go Hard or Go Home

[The need to go to sleep must be balanced with the need to blog something when I think of it so as not to forget.]

I figured out what I want to get for my tattoo today. It is a phrase: Guns Blazing. I picked up this phrase from the title of a DJ Shadow (posing as U.N.K.L.E.) song. I love this phrase. I wish I could do everything in my life in Guns Blazing mode. You know, hardcore. Hard as hell. Etc. For the tattoo I have many decisions to make: what font to use; whether to go ALL CAPS, Init Caps, or lowercase; whether to add quotes or brackets and/or an exclamation point. Or points.

But I am not getting a tattoo because I think they are dumb. (No offense) [The one tattoo I liked was a date to commemorate and ACL tear.] So instead I will add this list to my life mottos.

Then, later on, at Target, another motto came to me, this time lifted from a sample in an Herbaliser song. (Battle of Bongo Hill, I think): "In, bang, and out." This phrase is in the Guns Blazing vein (as well as the vein of my third to be told tonight but first to be adopted in my life motto) as it conveys that same sense of not fucking around. Go where you're going, do your shit, then get the fuck on to the next thing you're gettin' into. And do it all Guns Blazing, or you'll get sidetracked.

So, my mottos >>

In, bang, and out.
Guns Blazing
HULK OUT

If the last is not self-explanatory, stop what you're doing, go to Blockbuster, and rent The Hulk. You will learn.

[And it could be worse, I coulda lifted a motto about the moon being made of green cheese.]