Knife-Micke outside of the VICE office in Stockholm. All photo by the author

Advertisement
Advertisement
That's from my crazy period. I hadn’t slept for 24 hours and had been taking loads of coke and MDMA. I was with a bunch of friends who also have a lot of tattoos but they have like full on beards and they always bully me because I have no facial hair. So I thought, lets do a moustache! Maybe it would have been better if I went to a real tattoo artist and thought that one through a bit more… But that is one of the pieces I am currently removing with laser treatment.
Advertisement
Well it’s like this: Before I met my girlfriend, Sindy, I didn’t care about anything. I didn’t want to study, I did not want to have a proper job – all I wanted to was to party and hang out with my friends. I didn’t care that I was living on the edge. My mentality was "If I die, I die." But now it’s a whole different story; I am sitting here only one year after we met and I’m about to be a father. I also got in at the school I’ve applied for.Congratulations. Tell me more about the school?
I want to become a nurse. It’s gonna be dope.How do people react when they see you?
The reactions vary. I’ve noticed that old ladies in their seventies tend to be fascinated. They usually walk up to me and ask if they can have a closer look, reflect and then they say, ”Oh how lovely, you are beautiful, you really stand out from everybody else.”That’s nice! And children, do they get scared?
No not at all. They just stare.Your nickname is ”Knife-Mike”, is that because of your dagger on your nose?
Haha, no, the original dagger is actually on my penis.Can I see?
Sure.The Knife What does it say?
Kill bitches.When did you make it? Two and a half years ago. My friends and I were drunk and decided that it was a lovely idea to tattoo each others dicks. My friend has an arrow on his.Didn’t it hurt? No, not as much as you would think it would. There’s a lot of people who believe that your dick has to be hard when you ink it, but I mean come on, it would be impossible to get a hard on in that kind of situation.
Advertisement