tattoo

I know this guy.. he got a tattoo. well, he had several tattoos, but i specifically remember him getting a tattoo of this band, or movie, or cultural something... wait it was Thursday the band... Anywho, after that point he was die hard about the band Thursday. Not because he liked them anymore or because their new album didn't suck, because it did, but because now that shit was engraved on his arm.. He has to be a Thursday fan for the rest of his life. He has to defend their shitty new albums, even when he knows they're terrible. He doesnt have a choice anymore... hes no longer free to change his mind or be honest with himself. He cant even admit that their music was never that great.... but instead he was just going through a period of time that Thursday seemed especially relevant to him.

Now he listens to Thursday even more and shitty bands that kind of sound like Thursday. He hangs out with people that listen to Thursday. He wears a beanie hat.. that says Thursday.

I guess getting tattoos are a symbol of liberation and fuck you.. symbols of the counterculture, a stamp that tells the world, "I'm more free than you are."