Win a Stocking Full of Rob Zombie Holiday Horror
Quick story (kinda) about Rob Zombie:
When I turned 18 I got my first tattoo. Not knowing how that all worked, I made an appointment with the first tattoo artist I found in the—get this—phone book. Upon arriving, the man who would go on to tattoo me quickly escorted me to a back room, where he instructed me to lie down in a dentist’s-ish chair. Then, before he accomplished anything further, before he sterilized his equipment or even asked me where I wanted my tattoo carved into my skin, he turned on the—get this—boom box and blasted Rob Zombie’s “Dragula” so loudly there was no chance a conversation could have occurred, which was extra disadvantageous to me, since I hadn’t even told him where I wanted the tattoo.
When finally I was able to signal to him that his Rob Zombie was excruciatingly loud, he reluctantly turned it down a smidge, enough for me, tattoo neophyte, to distract myself from my nervousness to ask him where he got his first tattoo.
“Parlor or needle-and-thread?” he asked me. I of course responded that I would like to know where he got his first needle-and-thread tattoo. The answer, turns out, was when he was eight years old on his front porch.
Ever since, I’ve conflated Rob Zombie with my first, very-poorly-done tattoo.
But also since then: Rob Zombie’s directed six films! And his most recent, 31 comes out on Blu-Ray and digital VOD today!