Everything Evil

 ... i've decided what to get for my first tattoo!!!! LOL this should come as no surprise to those of you keeping up with my blog as of late, but i've decided on the Coheed and Cambria logo for my first INK!!!!

i found a fansite awhile ago for COCA, but never spent much time on it until tonight. i found a 7 page essay on there that explains the entire story of Coheed and Cambria (the actualy story behind the words in their songs, not the history of the band), written by fans, and i'm assuming confirmed by the band (i'm waiting on an email from the essay's author to confirm this). in it, they dissect the online adventures, the Second Stage Turbine Blade (sstb) comic book, and the albums SSTB and In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (iksose), explaining the lyrics of each song, and putting them in context with the entire storyline.

it was actually quite amazing, and cleared up so much for me. i've always known that COCA's albums were part of a much bigger sci-fi scheme, a novel that lead singer Claudio Sanchez is still writing, and i even understood some key parts of the story just from the music... but the essay delved into parts of the story i hadn't even come close to picking up on from the music alone... it's a great story, and i can't wait to read the novel once it's published...

and then i reach the end of the essay, where the author saw fit to include random facts about the story... about 15 facts all together, one fo the last of which was something i've been avidly searching for for the past few months:

WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS SYMBOL MEAN!?!??!

haha, it's actually an integral part of the greater story, not just some pretty design the band chose to represent themselves... and the essay explained it, perfectly! it's called The Keywork, which in the story is " vast structure of Twelve Sectors and seventy-eight planets, all powered and held in place by giant star-transformers called the Stars of Sirius." while i'm not 100% clear on what the Keywork and Heaven's Fence were built for, i believe it's basically what holds the universe together (any brighter COCA fans out there, feel free to correct me on that). but the symbol is that of The Keywork, and is decribed as follows: "The Keywork (the Co/Ca "logo") does have geometrical significance to the story. When you look at the Keywork, the triangle is the alignment of the planets. The circles are the seven stars of Sirius, forming the Keywork that keep the planets aligned. This is because of the seven circle theorem. The lines of tangency of the circles perpendicularly bisect the triangle."

i used to love geometry in school; it was the only math subject i ever willingly passed. i love Coheed and Cambria's music, both their older and newer stuff; in nearly four albums (nearly??? lol they have four releases, one of which is under their original name, but featured songs later put on their first album under COCA), i've only found one or two songs that i just flat out didn't like. i love the way Claudio has done what few others can, and has written his songs to an entire storyline, and every single song relates to one another; they are all connected by that story. and i love that story... it's become very intriguiging to me, much in the same way that Star Wars first intrigued me, the way i was intrigued, even, by the book "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card (and later "Speaker for the Dead")... i don't know, i guess that Sci-Fi just has that effect on me...

so here i have a design for a tattoo that encompasses many of the things i love about something in particular...

how rare is that, especially when the design is also a band's LOGO!??!?! i mean, this can't possibly work in every other situation... if it did, people would get the rolling stones logo tattooed on their asses because they like lips.... that makes no sense!!! lol... i guess i just feel it's alot deeper than that for me...

the only thing i'm afraid of is how many other ppl have this same tattoo... it's not bothering me enough to make me change my mind, especially since i've never seen anyone with it before... (then again, i haven't seen many other COCA fans, either), and seeing as the odds i'll run into another person with the same tattoo, in the same place, is extremely narrow...

i'm not looking for reasons NOT to get this tattoo, but any objections anyone has, i will gladly listen... and if necesery, reject them altogether, and substitue them with a reality of my own :)

stay until wednesday and write me a child-like letter pretending...
at war here in thursday, let's make this our last day at home by the fence...

BHC