"Midnight Oil"

   This is a long sleeve Oils t-shirt from the second half of their long career!! I share an Oils shirt this week as I was impressed with the wall off shirts that form part 'The Making of Midnight Oil] at Manly Museum & Art Gallery until 7th September!! I asked the curator how he'd gotten into my house, given the extensive collection of shirts, magazines and photos I could have donated to the cause!! Band merchandise [especially the old acme t's] are part of the experience and many a young bloke leaves the venue wearing two or with the one he wore out dangling from a jeans back pocket... the old blokes visiting the museum were wearing their share of old classics and you could even buy some replicas in the foyer gift shop... the barcode, the yellow 'Head Injuries' silhouette and the rare drum pedal gray marle.... Lot's of good memories of Newcastle Workers Club, Selina's at Coogee, Manly Leagues, the Enmore, the Ent Cent and more...

"Event Staff"

   I've had this t-shirt for a couple of years and it never fails to get me funny looks at concerts, shopping centres, the Uni and weekend events!! It's not for any particular event so I can just make up stories of where it's from... or answer people's questions or... just enjoy their double takes while they wonder what the heck the bouncer is doing in the middle of the crowd... simple but fun!!

'Twitter'

   This is one of those red bubble t-shirts that after a while [some 3-4 years] the design wipes off the front, but this speech bubble said "no one reads your stupid tweets" and it has always generated shop counter, pub and friendly conversation with how much people agree when they see it!! It's also a departure from my preferred 'black' t and at a time when I weighed considerably less than I do today!!
   Of course I have been on twitter since before I owned this and laugh at the opinions expressed about what sort of idiots do that... now we are seeing mainstream TV media and newspaper content generated from viewer/reader feedback or input... masquerading as news!!
   I should probably be tweeting my current 'Life's too short' series!!... nobody reads it anyhow!!

'That Band'

   Tired from my t-shirts attracting all manner of U2 'bashing' a couple of years ago I bought one with the slogan "Everything You Know is Wrong" which is a reference to the messages onscreen for ZOO TV!! And this to the informed observer would be the same Irish rockers in 360 pose front stage 'unplugged' but to the average t-shirt observer it's just some band... in fact it's 'that band'!!