JUST ANOTHER TATTOOED SLAG

This blogger finally knows who Nikki Minaj is! Basically, she's a black Lady Gaga, connected somehow to the music industry, with multiple wigs, a big big booty, and mighty gazoombaliciousness!

This is important to very many people.

I hadn't heard of her till now.

She's got a tattoo.


上帝與你常在


Like a lot of tattoos that use Chinese characters, it is deeply meaningful, possessed of mysterious beauty, far more than there could ever possibly be in English. 上帝與你常在 shàngdì yǔ nǐ cháng zài.
Because Chinese was built specifically so that hip Westerners could express themselves better and more spiritually.

It means 'god is with you always'.


Non-Chinese with character script tattoos are like East Asians with funky text clothing. Such messages as "everyone loving to do the freedoms", "scenery is best", "eternal state cheese", "what it do", "you not stare salty hand". That last peculiarly appropriate to lady with big bust.
But crazy Engrish clothing can be taken off.
Tattoos are permanent zaniness.
Silly skin whimsy.


My favourite tattoo with English translated into Chinese is this:

先死亡然後羞辱

I asked the proud Caucasian fellow with that on his arm what it meant. He beamed at me, and patiently explained that it was Chinese (!), and said "death before dishonor".
Wow. That's deep. Both martial and meaningful.

What it actually says is 'first death then humiliation'. Basically a request that the wearer be killed and his corpse subsequently abused.

It's okay, mystical white dude, we can do that.
Please, you no worry about a thing!
We obey! Respect!

Very zen.



If from the above you gather that this blogger does not like tattoos, that is absolutely correct. If you are a savage from the jungles -- erm, so sorry, a "meaningful original culture" person with "traditional wisdom" from the primeval forests of Sarawak -- tattoos are acceptable. With your tribal background and heritage they probably mean that you brutally killed several Japanese soldiers and collected their heads.
And you've ridden the whales.
Danced with wolves.


Contrariwise, if you are a typical American or European urbanite with tattoos, it just means that you are a pretentious dickhead.
Or a gangmember, and possibly stupid.



THE CRACK-HO AESTHETIC

As for this Minaj person, I've tried watching her videos, regarding that as necessary research, and part of the process of catching up on modern culture; she seems to be a fairly influential "artist", and one of the musical giants of the present age. So help me, I can't do it. She's a lousy performer and has an irritating voice. Her videos are nasty, suffused with sleaziness, and while glib and polished, altogether repulsive.
She's a breast-obsessed vulgarian.
And a foulmouthed piece.
A rap-tile.


Who the hell is Li'l Wayne?


How nice to know that she is Christian.





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