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And after reading this, you’ll understand why. New York City’s GunBar, located in the heart of the Meatpacking District, boasts a new concept for nightclubs. It’s hip, but grimy. It’s chic but covered in graffiti. Basically, it captures the atmosphere of NYC’s seedy streets without being completely gross and smelling like bum urine.

The club has a rock-inspired ambiance that mixes the feel of a dive bar with all the amenities of elegance. One of the most bizarre, but genius, features of the club is the tattoo shop. Legendary tattoo artist Michelle Myles will run the nightclub’s tattoo parlor, which is open Thursday-Saturday from 11:30 p.m. to 4 a.m. Customers can have some drinks and then go get inked.

This is the smartest idea I’ve heard in a while—open a tattoo parlor inside of a place where people’s judgments are clouded and they’re willing to do things they regret. They should also open a Del Taco in there and set up an Internet station where people can email their exes. And if they want to take it up another notch, they should open a laser tattoo removal shop that’s only open on Sundays.