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^I'm gonna be so honest with my kids about drug experiences. What's the point of doing otherwise? It'd be a disservice.

i am honest with everyone about my drug experiences. the good and the not so good.

nothing other way of dealing with it makes any sense, given you are dealing with things that could affect the health of others.

i am always suprised when my friends with teenage kids who used to party have a zero tolerence policy, like they think that will do anything other than encourage poor use of sometimes dangerous things.

no that's not it, but thanks

the guy i'm thinking of does sprawling, inky black tats. There's a possibility he's from the UK too, i dunno i really can't remember.

perhaps you are thinking of xed le hed

snuck in for a quick tattoo with ben grover who is working on the kea on my chest [colour still to do] while he is guesting at the tattooed heart in auckland

http://thedaktory.org.nz/

discovered this place for the first time last night. really chill scene, the nicest thing was how well it represented cannibis culture in new zealand with to option of bone handled knives and a stove as one of the methods for smoking.

auckland has become my home as it the place that i have lived longest. it is like a fully formed small city, with it's own music, fashion, and film industry.

food is fantastic if expensive, after living in san francisco the only things i miss are good cheap mexican and american style burgers.

auckland is pretty chilled out as the population is not dense, you can get whatever you want here if you have the right contacts.

the city itself is located between two harbours so you are never far from the water, from coast to coast is around 1 hour in traffic and the two coasts are totally different the west wild and the east white sand and sheltered.

the spread out nature of it is similar to the bay area and each of the little villages has it's own charm, well some further out shopping centres have very little to offer.

i spent six months living in wellington when i first returned to new zealand, which is incredibly pretty full of culture but really was too small and cold to be good for more than a short visit.

over this last weekend i was part of the 48 hour film festival . i played the part of an accountant who flatted with a life size evil teddy bear.

the first scene we shot was in the middle of auckland city exchanging this evil bear. for around half an hour i was in a suit with a giant teddy bear over my shoulder [the crew were out of sight]. i have never had so many women stop and try and talk to me.

this may be a plan for meeting women.

spent the last six months on some pure bogan razor blades in the water slide mt druitt style. dunlop volleys.

really need to get some shoes out of storage.

you're fucking joking right.

politics?????

no thanks

over easter weekend i went to a video game exhibition at motat, all manner of vintage arcade machines and home consoles.

most excited to play the only game i clocked at the spacies parlour. only game missing from the golden age was defender, so i didn't get a chance to use all my smart bombs and then hyperspace into an enemy.

more british comedy gold

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today i went to see josh solomon who is apprenticing at two hands tattoo about a piece for the back of my arm, we are going to do a burning book.

i was itching to get something done so i went to see merv o'connor at auckland tattoo who had done one of my white pieces after i insisted i knew what it would look like.

merv has been tattooing for 40 years, today i looked through all the flash in the shop and asked where i would find what he had drawn, in the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet there was flash going back twenty years.

i got this scratcher single needle outline and the whole thing done with a rotary machine, along the way i heard some of the long history of tattoo in new zealand.

i am almost tempted to get a whole lot of little flash pieces just to hear the stories.

i have been on a diet of epic films and british comedy

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beers and garnish on a warm afternoon

i am so suggestible

that when people say something about how i am

it feels like a casting

a spell or a role

for a time is cast

i can't help but play along

play it to the hilt

i really don't like to disappoint

until the next audition

scrambling through the scrub towards the light

i hear the voices above i don't know if they are friendly

this feels like life and death

through snatches of consciousness

no details of preceding events

the branches break footing unsure

using my face to lead

i struggle to safety

i have marks left to remind me

take more care

flirting with deadly combination

oh the path of true love...

one of the fantastic things about living in the biggest polynesian city in the world is the history of tattoo [the word tattoo itself is borrowed from tahitian]

today i got to watch su'a tuifa'asisina considered to be the best practitioner of traditional samoan tattoo on a few different pe'a.

one of his minders invited me closer in order to take photos. from what i spied the ink was rotring [not specialist tattoo ink]

su'a works out of south auckland, most of the tattoos i have seen that are done in samoa are done with tattoo guns. the population of samoan's is bigger here than it is in samoa so south auckland has become a mecca for traditional work.

his minder told me that su'a does work on palangi [non samoan], and will do work other than the pe'a but still traditional in style.

yeah... youre not supposed to. but you should go ahead and do it.

no you shouldn't, and in fact you can spend some time off supertalk, i don't know where you got the idea that you get to make up the rules.

but in fact you are wrong.