Let’s start at the very beginning. Where did you grow up? First of all, man, I appreciate you doing this. I’m very honored that you’re interviewing me. It should be the other way around. But to answer your question, I was born in Queens. I also grew up in Long Island, and that’s where I met Mike Rubendall, just in the scene in Long Island. It was a hardcore scene, a bunch of kids were getting tattooed back in the day. It was very new, very different. And I was just enthralled with the space. I loved the culture, the connection that people had to other people getting tatted up in the community, building in that subculture.
Rubendall was the first person to put a needle to my skin. And it was
