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Sorry that I've been a bit quite lately but I'm selling off a part of my record collection on Ebay. You can find what I'm selling at this point at http://www.ebay.com/sch/davowilkins/m.html?_ipg=&_from=&_nkw=&_armrs=1&_sop=7.

In this segment I'm going to be addressing some common issues, causes and treatments for Infection and other problems. I think it is extremely important that I should state right from the start that this blog nor any information on the internet is a replacement for seeing a well trained and experienced piercer or a Medical Professional. I say piercer first only because a well experience piercer has dealt has a good working knowledge of dealing with infections and other problems.

Regardless of your schedule we all have free time at some point and I tend to seem to always have a great deal of it. Even when the Studio is busy, I still may have a couple of hours of down time and as a stimulation junky, I like to keep busy. When I first started piercing I had this vision that I was at last going to have that time to write that novel I'd always dreamed of or maybe take some college courses but neither of them came to past. That is unless you count this site as that book, God knows there is enough content here for a novel.

So of you may remember Tobias aka Toby that tattooed at the Skin Kitchen for some time. Well, he's back in town and guesting at Skin Kitchen Tattoo through this weekend. 

For more information stop by the Studio 2607 Douglas Ave, Ste C, Des Moines, Iowa or give them a call at 515-255-4430

Often when I make playlists they tend to be either by style, location or band. Other than the one's that I post a majority of these are huge long lists Of hundreds of songs. In part this is because I will listen to them at the studio and an hour long list playing over and over gets a bit boring.

Every year I spend my birthday reflecting on what advancements or changes there have been in my life. So today during my shower and on the car ride to work, in fact, I do a majority of my best writing in the shower or on my drive to and from work. It is one of the few times when I really can focus. I think it is safe to say that I've written at least 20 novels and about 25 collections of poetry while driving or showering. The problem is that often, I didn't bother to write any of it down but I feel that it's important to ferment ideas during times when I have little or no distractions.

I thought I'd take a little different path with this installment and try to cover a subject that is often completely misunderstood. Possibly the main reason that it is so misunderstood is that it is often something very personal and can't always be described. We all have different motivations and drives that create the desire to modify and change our body's. From the marking of important events in our lives to something as simple as we like the way it looked.

Back in the dark ages, long before the invention of the digital audio files and the instance gratification of obtaining information and music on the net, there were a number of small regional independent labels that documented and shaped music. Often these "Labels" were extreme small, not well run and often prayed off the artists on there label.