“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.” - Charles Bukowski, Factotum
Andrew Pequita has devoted his entire professional life to the ancient craft of tattooing. We sit down with him at his shop located in New Bedford, MA and discuss a variety of topics, many of which are reoccurring during extensive tattoo sessions that we've shared over the past 13 years of friendship. Naturally, there is a wide spread of tattoo and metal talk, however movies and UFOs always seem to creep in there as well. Andrew's precise and well articulate prose shines brilliantly throughout the episode and mimics the pace and ease of his rather comfortable tattooing sessions.
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