Will Amazon Natives Like My Tattoo?

I want to get this tattoo I've been talking about getting so bad. But also, I want to meet an indigenous tribe in the Amazon one day, before they're all gone. I have always wanted to travel over there and see how they live but what would they think of a phonograph sprouting flowers tattooed on my arm? I think I would probably just tell them that, in my culture, where I live it is a form of self expression to have something tattooed onto your body. In my case, a phonograph sprouting flowers is a way for me to pay tribute to myself for growing up and being happy despite everything I have been put through or have put myself through, both being quite a lot.

When I was a kid, I didn't have a lot of fancy toys. At 5, my favorite thing in the world was the radio. I've always had one around the house. My parents were very into Hair Metal of the Poison, Def Leopard, Guns and Roses variety. (At this time, my mom even has an Aerosmith tattoo. I wont tell you where.) I knew every single word to Paradise City by the time I was 3 years old. Some of my most prominent memories of being 1-6 years of age include bits and pieces of MTV, tapes my parents had and NKOTB. At the age of 10 I became obsessed with Mariah Carey and wanted so badly to be able to sing like her. I would spend all of my time in my bedroom singing into my pillow as loud as I could. At 11, I discovered the Smashing Pumpkins Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness, the album which eventually came to define the part of my life I had spent in Houston, TX.

At 12, moving to a different city took quite a toll on me. I had moved around so many times as a child. Every time I was in one place long enough to make a single friend, we were moving again. I had just gotten comfortable with myself there and so moving after 5 of the most stable years of my life up to that point, pretty much broke my heart. And no one knows more about Broken Hearts than Kurt Cobain. So, I slipped into a long love affair with Nirvana. I learned how to live being completely full of angst & confusion. I had found an outlet. Something for me to release things into.

From there, every phase of my life has seemed to have it's own soundtrack. I can't remember a party, a person, a situation, without also thinking of the band, or album, or concert surrounding it. Even my and Mike's first date was a Morrissey show at Will Rodgers. Music has been so interwoven into my life and has become so important to me that I want to get it permanently symbolized on my arm in a beautiful, pristine work of art. So, I hope that will be a good enough reason for those natives. And if anyone knows a good tattoo artist, call me. :)