I started with the standard "get whatever" at 18, 19, 20 years old, just because I liked _this_ or _that_ idea and I really wanted to be a person who had tattoos, so I got a few of them done. But among them, my third was an only somewhat clever idea, and I was a meek young man at the time lacking the voice to back out when the tattoo artist reworked it into something I didn't even like and then forked over my cash for something I spent 10 years hating. Over those 10 years, though, I developed two particular styles and as I got additional work done it was in those two styles: first, lost of graffiti-like stencil-looking imagery; and second, I only got things in black and red. So as you might imagine, when Trash Polka arrived on the scene I was already covered in a style that was eerily similar and the stuff those Trash Polka guys were doing added the missing elements to really bring all my stuff together. The first thing I did was use the big black areas to cover up that