An INK’ed-UP edition of Feisty Friday Quotes!

HAPPY FEISTY FRIDAY!

I am hosting an Ink Party with Sexxymofo (www.sexxymofo.com) this Saturday (think bodypainting and the like, very artistic and sensual…cannot wait to see the captured images as we have some amazing artists on hand!)and so, keeping in theme I decided to indulge in some Inked-Up Quotations…enjoy and have a wonderful weekend!

xxx c.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. And I never wish to shut the door on the past, so I carry it all with me. -Dave Narvarro (musician)

 

Tattoos are like stories – they’re symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful. -Pamela Anderson (sex icon)

 

I did what I could to move the muscles in my back so the tattoo could sort of stretch out. I always wished I had more muscles that could crinkle up. -Ralph Fiennes For the film, Red Dragon (2002) as Francis Dolarhyde

 

In 19th Century England, tattooing flourished as nowhere else in Europe, largely thanks to traveling seamen who would come back with permanent souvenirs of their travels on their arms. In 1862, it gained Royal sanction and members of the Royal family, from the Prince of Wales to King Edward VII, acquired tattoos. By 1890 the fad had spread to the US and tattoos were seen on members of the exclusive New York Racquet Club. – It is certainly the most vulgar and barbarous habit the eccentric mind of fashion ever invented. It may do for an illiterate seaman, but hardly for an aristocrat. Society men in England were the victims of circumstance when the Prince of Wales had his body tattooed. Like a flock of sheep driven by their master they had to follow suit. (Socialite of the day Ward McAllister who complained to the press about the fad)

“The woman must bear children and the man must be tattooed.” -Polynesian Proverb

My body is a journal in a way. It’s like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist. -Johnny Depp

A Feisty Friday Quote: From A Raunchy Man

 

Mrs. Barry, you must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two categories: The stupid and the envious. The stupid will like you in five years time. The envious, never. -The Earl of Rochester, as played by Johnny Depp in The Libertine (2004)

I, for one, will stick with The Stupid…for at least their motivation is not malevolent…Have a wonderful weekend! xxx c

The Libertine: A debaucherous romp…with a TRUE (nasty) HEART!

Yesterday I watched The Libertine (2004), a film staring Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, and John Malkovich…a wittily written stylistic period drama set in the 17th century, that follows the debaucherous a terribly talented Earl of Rochester as he summarily: drinks, insults, and fornicates his way to conquering the English stage, with the blessing of King Charles II, his famous benefactor.

I love the film.

I loved the film because it was raw. It was silly. It was erotic. It was ugly. Its writing and turn-of-phrase is simply brilliant.

I loved this film because it takes what many of us hold as 17th Century history…pious…prim and proper…and turns it on its toes! The Libertine elevates the art of the theatre, while simultaneously revealing a seedy and all-too-relatable underside. We see scenes replete with orgies and drunkiness…in the throws of great poverty and greed. We see the subtle talent of the stage muddled by the audacious and even ridiculous performances that The Earl writes and produces.

Notably, his most inappropriate (or perhaps all-too-appropriate) offering to the stage was Senior Dildo, mentioned in this week’s Sex Toy Tuesday entry (Click HERE for a peek at the provocative prose). The movie’s depiction of this performance is downright hilarious…picture women dancing across the stage with gigantic wooden dildos which are then thrown to the audience members!

Apart from the guilty-pleasures that The Libertine clearly offers…the film does ask us some important questions…by presenting us with the perilous fault of the human soul…the human heart…a vulnerable…and imperfect thing…capable of both great love, as well as great (self) destruction.

* Please feel free to view the introduction to the film and quotation below…and enjoy the prologue as presented to the viewer via The Earl of Rochester (Played by Johnny Depp). xxx c

Allow me to be frank at the commencement. You will not like me. The gentlemen will be envious and the ladies will be repelled. You will not like me now and you will like me a good deal less as we go on. Ladies, an announcement: I am up for it, all the time. That is not a boast or an opinion, it is bone hard medical fact. I put it round you know. And you will watch me putting it round and sigh for it. Don’t. It is a deal of trouble for you and you are better off watching and drawing your conclusions from a distance than you would be if I got my tarse up your petticoats. Gentlemen. Do not despair, I am up for that as well. And the same warning applies. Still your cheesy erections till I have had my say. But later when you shag – and later you will shag, I shall expect it of you and I will know if you have let me down – I wish you to shag with my homuncular image rattling in your gonads. Feel how it was for me, how it is for me and ponder. ‘Was that shudder the same shudder he sensed? Did he know something more profound? Or is there some wall of wretchedness that we all batter with our heads at that shining, livelong moment. That is it. That is my prologue, nothing in rhyme, no protestations of modesty, you were not expecting that I hope. I am John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester and I do not want you to like me.