You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
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You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
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Mark Mahoney
Mark Mahoney grew up wanting to be a priest. Instead, he found his calling with a tattoo machine in his hand. You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory is the story of a restless Irish Catholic kid from Boston who became consumed with the outlaw art of tattooing. His obsession took him from biker clubs and the punk rock underground of 1970s New York to the Chicano lowrider culture of East Los Angeles and Hollywood. Along the way, he pioneered the fine-line, black-and-grey style that transformed tattooing into a global art form, leaving his mark on everyone from Tupac Shakur and Johnny Depp to Angelina Jolie, Rihanna, Cher, Lady Gaga, and Harry Styles.
But success didn’t quiet his demons. For decades, Mahoney struggled with drug addiction, depression, and a search for belonging, even as his legendary Shamrock Social Club became a sanctuary where movie stars, musicians, gangsters, and ordinary people shared their stories and made their memories permanent.
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory is a vivid portrait of disappearing American subcultures and a deeply human story about faith, love, survival, and the search for grace. At its heart is a man who spends his life preserving other people's memories while searching for something lasting in his own.
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