I got my tatoo finshed. I think I'm going to buy a digital camera when my tax return comes in, so I'll post a picture after that.

Almost done school for they year. It's been stressful. Looking forward to the summer.

Still don't have a picture of the progress on my tatoo, but I have something even better to share. How would you like to hear the greatest rock song of all time? Well, maybe that's a bit of an exageration, but it's really great none the less.

Here's the story. A friend of mine knows a guy going to some technology school. For an assignment, he had to record a band. A bunch of really talented musicians got together and set out to record a really epic prog/metal song. They laid down all the music and some of the vocals before I came in. They wanted me to add something. I knew they originally wanted to make the song about robots attacking the earth, but the guy who sang on it came up with some other story about fossils or something. They wanted an excuse to use a robot effect, so I wrote a verse as Gloputron the leader of the robots. Based on my verse, they decided to rewrite and record all new vocals. I did my verse as the robot and I helped write the rest of the song. It's not meant to be taken seriously. I wrote the most ridiculous lyrics I could come up with, but yet the song still sounds really really good. All the musicians involved (except maybe me) are very talented and the producer did an amazing job aswell.

Performers:

John Morrison: Drums
Greg O'toole: Lead guitar
Mike Briggs: Rhythm guitar / narrator vocals / lyrics
Dave Briggs: Bass guitar / various screams and evil laughter / lyrics
Warren ???: Singing vocals
Jon Forward (me): Robot vocals / lyrics
Adam ???: keys / production

So without further adieu, here's the link to the MP3

Gloputron - The Siege of Rockopolis

Got more of my tatoo done. 4 hours later ... still not done, but looking good. One more session should do it. I'll wait until it's not all scabby and gross before I get a new picture of it. I don't think my skin is taking to the red ink very well. I guess I'll find out after it heals.

Finally got my tatoo started a week and a half ago. It still needs to be filled in. Here it is so far:



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It's loosely based on Maxwell's Demon

I was supposed to get my tatoo a couple days ago, but he's not done designing it. He's going to pass it off to one of the other artists who has more experience with the kind of thing I want. I'll probably have to wait unitl after the new year.

Getting my first tatoo soon. I helped design it. I can't draw, but I describe it to the artist as well as I could. He had some good ideas, and I helped along with some stuff I wanted to change. It's loosely based on "Maxwell's Demon" (it's a physics thing, google it). I'll post a pic of the sketch once he emails me the latest version.