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date 20/8 - 27/8
bought: savers
brand: paradise
size: small
price: $2.99
colour: Patrick White
why: it's the colours, those sweet sweet colours
spotted: looking cute and a little sleepy. late night. melbourne.
another gem found lying amongst the rabble of gwen steffani tour shirts and awfully sloganized tees. another tee to add to the list of places i've never been, not because i haven't been to bali but because i don't remember seeing a lush green paradise populated with neon purple birds. no... this tee is from an entirely different world, think of it as less indochina and more 'paradise.
less second hand tee shirt and more of a journey into the unconscious
still waiting for an answer to last weeks quote question seems like no one wants the awfully cheap prizes i offered. thats cool, it just means more free slurpees for me and not you and with the weather heating up (slowly) that's always a good thing
date 13/8 - 20/8
bought: savers
brand: threadless
size: small
price: $3.99
colour: Green like the FNG's
why: i would've bought this tee from threadless if they hadn't sold out
its like "a bridesmaid's dress. someone loved it intensely for one day, then tossed it. like a christmas tree, so special then bam it's abandoned on the side of the road, tinsel still clinging to it".
this is how i feel about all my second hand tees. i like to think of the history they hold within their threads.
if these walls could talk.
girl meets boy, girl buys boy tee, girl breaks boy's heart, boy gives away tee. the story could end here. or i could find this tee, give it a new life, a new purpose and make it an internet star. i also saw this tee on that american guy on the gruen transfer. maybe it's that very same tee, given to him to wear by the ABC fashion advisers then donated, because it can't be used on TV again.
these are all possibilities. but they don't change the fact that this is a good tee, and now it's also 'my' tee
so who can tell me where the "bridesmaid's dress" quote is from, there's a prize, one of those awesome dinosaur shaped donuts from donut king and a coupon for 1 medium slurpee at 7/11
get searching kids for your sweet sugary rewards
P.S. have you been wondering what has been missing from your life? existential crisis over. its seeing me act!
to see my mad acting skillz
click here...
date 6/8 - 13/8
bought: savers
brand: Jarlsberg
size: small
price: $4.99
colour: he's talkin' with davy who's still in the navy, blue
why: jarlsberg, probably my favourite kind of cheese
actually that's a big call. jarslberg is good, it may even be great but there is a lot of cheese out there. the swiss sure know all about neutrality and jarslberg is as neutral as it gets in the cheese world. but seriously people, who made this tee? and for what purpose? was it a special buy 3 wheels of jarlsberg and send away for your free cheese themed tee kind of deal, cuz that would be freekin sweet. with that kind of cheese i'd have enough not to be angry if i came home to find you'd eaten an entire wheel of cheese, i'd just be impressed
i feel the need to increase the number of wine and cheese tastings i attend. where i can proudly don my jarslberg tee and stick it to those non cheese loving tasteless crackpots who probably think cheese comes individually sliced and wrapped in plastic. it doesn't. that shit ain't even cheese. you can get halfway through a slice before you realised the plastic is still on because it tastes the same even if you do unwrap it. so this is for you. you eat that plastic wrap cheese, and you probably eat that kraft cheese spread too and you possibly bought that i snack2.0 thing they sold for a while. but stop, put down that orange piece of rubber in your hand and go buy some real cheese.
it comes in many forms, brie, camembert, roquefort, bleu, pecorino, parmesan just to name a few
and now it comes in tee form
date 30/7 - 6/8
bought: savers
brand: vision streetwear
size: small
price: $2.99
colour: mr. black
why: this tee is tough. enough said
this weeks tee is from the wrong side of the tracks. it hangs out at the local skatepark doing things like underage drinking and vandalism. it is so tough it lost its sleeves in a knife fight. it was once called chicken and so, jumped off a 12 story building into a kiddie pool filled with concrete. if Chuck Norris was a tee this would be it.
with summer just around the corner sleeves have been made optional on this weeks tee. i doubt it would have the same 'tough' character if it did though. classic logo. classic white on black. this tee is like a kick in the face with a pair of studded motor cycle boots. if you wear a tee like this there is no need for leather jackets. this tee is all the protection you will need.
this tee is
bullet proof
stab proof
poser proof
date 23/7 - 30/7
bought: savers
brand: universal studios
size: small
price: $3.99
colour: blues brothers
why: because one day i'll make it big in hollywood, then who'll be paying the bills? me. the hollywood kid!
its 106 miles to chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, its dark, and we're wearing sunglasses
the bright lights, the fame the fortune, of hollywood. one day i'll to be amongst it, or at least its seedy underbelly. maybe i'd become a B grade actor, maybe B grade films are a little too high to aim, i'd settle for being an actor or even an extra, hell i'd settle just to be in hollywood. i think i should start production of the documentary i've been planning. it's pretty much just a film crew following me around and filming everything i do. it's mostly to capture the things that happen when there's no one around to see it. say you're walking down the street and try to get out of someone's way and you both step the same direction, or you drop an orange an make a miraculous catch by kicking it into the air and doing some sort of 360 degree backflip, you know just the usual everyday stuff.
for now at least i am stuck with being cool only when no one is looking. i'm forever telling poeple just how cool i really am. check out chicks, bartenders, baristas, but they just look at me, and ask for my money
but that will all change
when i make it in hollywood
date 16/7 - 23/7
bought: savers
brand: stoneville saloon
size: medium
price: $3.99
colour: greyish???
why: cheap drinks and lousy food what more could you want? i know! a tee to commemorate the visit
i am unsure of what to call the colour of this tee. not quite white, not quite grey but somehow its just right. there is something about this non descript colour that just yells the exact opposite of spare no expense and there must be something about that that draws me in. perhaps becaues it is in league with one of the founding ideals of one-tee-a-week and that is... that you do not have to spend money to get great fashion. fuck your ed hardy sequins and UV reflective stevie shirts i am a man of morals not labels. if ever i am able to afford a rolex i will buy one, give it to some unsuspecting person and tell them its a fake, then buy a fake rolex and wear that.
that is not to say that all designer labels are bad, but that money does not buy style. it may however pay for a flight to Alzada Montana, and the taxi to the "conveniently located in the middle of nowhere" stoneville saloon where you will find me...
sitting on a bar stool
chatting up waitresses
enjoying cheap drinks
and lousy food
wearing a fake rolex
date 9/7 - 16/7
bought: by Khai
brand: saigon
size: medium
price: a gift from a great man
colour: green machine
why: purchased on Khai's decaucherous tour of the far east from some deep opium den
the material of this tee is such that it allows for almost no stretching at all. an odd sensation to say the least. hand embroidered in the shodiest sweatshops. a piece of textile history to be sure
add to that... there is some weird show about swingers on channel 10
stay tuned for some 'care bear' action in a special one-tee-a-week shirt coming up the next few weeks
peace
date 20/8 - 27/8
