Paco: First Times

My mother tells me this may be your first experience with NetObjects Fusion. I love the program myself, but I´ll let her tell you about it because she´s better with words and I´m better with pictures (and sounds).

But "first times" reminds me of my first day in art school. It was so embarrassing—I was almost the only one without piercings. Well, I had two, but they were in my ears, and just one in each, so I was, like, really out of it. So I grab Ari, a guy who only has one ear pierced (he's practically an outcast) and together we go to find a good piercing place. My criterion is clean needles. His is a cute piercer.

I decide the more piercings the piercer has, the more experience. Unbelievably, most of these people only have two (one in each ear) and one even had the nerve to be wearing clip-ons. I tell you.

Finally, after almost getting tattoos (which I did get later, but I was being focused and looking for piercing), we found ourselves in the basement of San Francisco Center, (the place with the world´s only curved escalators near the foot of the cable cars).

There, with a spotlight in her tricolored hair, sitting cross-legged in the window of "Ear Ring Villa" on a background of black velvet, sat "Ersatz." Nine holes in one ear, 6 in the other, 1 in nose, 1 in lip, 1 belly button. We were drawn in like magnets. She also had pierced both nipples and one in a private area she declined to show us (even though she'd just shown us her nipples). Personally, I thought she was a little bit butch, but Ari thought she was cute, so I got a hole. So did Ari.

A while later I also got to design a CD cover for Ersatz and her band, "Waxy Yellow Buildup" (as you know, the band name "hole" was already taken). And we became friends with a shared interest in accessories.

I know that didn´t have anything to do with anything or anything, but I thought it was interesting and Dot has always encourged me to express myself in whatever way I can, so there you are.

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