Geek Love In Ink

A pretty spectacular slideshow of tattoos.

The slideshow came to my attention because of Book Slut’s post about the tattoo of Leona the lizard girl from Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love:

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Geek Love is one of the most shattering books I have ever read (excerpt here) – and I still believe that the less said about it the better (although I loveto run into people who have read it … it’s like we’re members of some small elite cult). My friend Mitchell always thought it should be made into a film – but not live-action – he thought it should be a dark surreal cartoon, which I still think is a brilliant idea.

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5 Responses to Geek Love In Ink

  1. Emily says:

    I love that Nightmare Before Christmas tattoo.

  2. Erik says:

    A dark surreal cartoon is a great idea! I’m always afraid of my favorite books being turned into movies because the images I have in my head are so strong that it almost feels like a betrayal when a movie tries, and fails, to live up to that image. (For ex. Simon Birch, which I’m a total snob for actually even bringing up as an example because I haven’t even seen the movie! But John Irving disowned it, and made them change the name from Owen Meany to Simon Birch, so I feel justified.) BUT a dark surreal cartoon version of Geek Love is such an awesome idea that it adds to the image I have in my head. I sooo want to see that movie!

  3. red says:

    Erik – I hear ya on being a snob. I’m a snob about Shipping News and haven’t even seen it. I don’t need to. You cast Kevin Spacey as Quoyle then I automatically know you are WAY off.

    I just always thought the idea of a dark beautifully done surreal cartoon would be so great for Geek Love – because if you try to CGI real live actors to have tails or fins or be or Siamese twins – or all of the other things going on … It just would pull the audience out of it, I think. If it’s a cartoon, it’s implicitly not real -so it could be way more fantastical and nightmarish.

    Anyway, that was our dream of the movie adaptation!

  4. Erik says:

    There was this indie movie about Siamese twins several years back, it was called Twin Falls Idaho, and the Siamese twins were played by identical non-Siamese twin actors, and I remember I was invested in the story and then, suddenly, there was a dream/fantasy sequence that showed the actors “separate,” riding on bikes, and I remember being so mad at that scene because it immediately pulled me out of the fantasy of them being connected and for the rest of the movie all I saw was the illusion of them being connected. All of that’s to say that, yes, CGI tails and fins would SUCK.

    I saw your brother at Tuesdays tonight! It was great to see him, I hadn’t seen him in a really long time!

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