Aug

Glennz Does It Again!

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Yet again Glennz aka Glenn Jones, one of Buy Tees favourite designers has done it again and come up trumps with his three latest t-shirts now available at Glennz.com – yet again the master of surrealism and wordplay has produced some of the finest designs out there – check these beauties out…

Ground Defenses

A hilarious take on the old retro arcade classic Space Invaders, one of the ground troops is busy marking up his kills on the side of his ground defence vehicle, and yes he’s already got two flying saucers (which means plenty more bonus points). If you fancy a trip back through memory lane, (or if you have no idea what I’m talking about) you can have a little play of it here to refresh those fingers and thumbs. But before you start whacking aliens maybe you should get the appropriate uniform here.

I was more of a Galaxian man myself but then again there was always a far longer queue for Space Invaders at the chip shop.

Now for a little more nostalgia…

Before Stardom

Moving along here’s one for all you Muppets/Sesame Street fans out there, I always hated Kermit, with his cornball tunes and sentimental jibes, I preferred the weird scientists Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker his long suffering assistant who was treated as a human guinea pig each week, usually resulting in a calamitous mutation of some kind. However I did enjoy this t-shirt, Before Stardom, which depicts the earliest beginnings of Kermit The Frog. Perhaps Glennz should make a frog spawn version for the kids :p

Experimental Music

Experimental Music is a simple but effective play on words, and results in a rather snazzy t-shirt design, I’d like to see a luminous version of this but you can’t have everything. I, my partner Christina and many others of our generation received a chemistry set as kids, perhaps our parents thought we’d be able to save the world, cure diseases, or at least create something to remove the chocolate ice cream stains from numerable items of our clothing.

As with indoor fireworks, the results were never too dramatic, in fact even if you did manage to mix every chemical in the box together you’d still see little more than a small blob of fizzing goo. Nothing blew up however much you tried. I doubt they sell as well these days, besides consoles and games, the Internet, mobile phones and designer clothing to distract the latest generation, the mollycoddling society we live in today, the fears of terrorist attack, and gawd knows what else has probably put paid to dangerous experimentation. Kids these days are more likely to experiment with drugs than a chemistry set.

Which is probably where the notion of experimental music comes in, most of it sounds like a mess to me, perhaps I’m too old and set in my ways, or perhaps you need to be on drugs to play or listen to this stuff. I went through a phase of appreciating some experimental 1960’s jazz, but I’m sure it was in order to impress a girl. I do still have a soft spot for Brian Eno’s sounds, the guy behind Roxy Music and a lot of Bowie’s earlier works, but my Eno collection hasn’t seen the light of day in years :/