WHAT IS THIS?

I have a lot of t-shirts. I mean A LOT. And I usually wear a t-shirt every day.

At the end of 2005 I had the idea for this blog - starting January 1st, 2006 I would wear a different t-shirt from my collection every day until I ran out of shirts. Shirts could not be repeated. Each day I was to take a photo of that particular day's shirt, tell everyone a little bit about it, and then post it all on this blog. I also encouraged my readers to send me shirts to keep my streak going, but that didn't work out so well. I think I got two or three in the mail. The rest of the shirts were mine.

The SASHDISH experiment lasted from January 1st, 2006 to June 5th, 2006, or something like 152 shirts! Was this pointless? Probably. But so is most of the stuff on the internet.

After SASHDISH ended, I got lazy and stopped checking in on it. Then the company that owned the server that stored all of my images went out of business, and all of the photos were lost. Someday, when I'm bored, I'll go back and repost the images. Until then, I still have all of the individual shirt descriptions up, so you can read about each one. And here's a photo of the first 100 shirts: SASHDISH 100.

In case you're wondering, I got rid of most of these shirts. However, I'm still a t-shirt-a-holic and now own just as many (if not more) than I used to.

Thanks for visiting,
Aaron Popp
aaronpopp.com
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Sunday, January 22, 2006

Green Day -- American Idiot


Front: Green Day -- American Idiot
Back: Nothing

Yeah, yeah. I know. Green Day is all over the radio. They play that "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" song all the time. And they play their other singles a lot. And the kids like 'em. And they sell their t-shirts at Hot Topic. And blah blah blah. Nowadays, it's common for people to not like bands if they are popular. Shit, I've liked Green Day since they originally became popular, and I liked them when they weren't popular for their second album, and I liked them when they were popular again, and I liked them when they weren't popular a second time, and I still like them now that they're popular again.

What you've gotta understand is that I've liked Green Day for a long time. I still have the receipt from when I bought their first major record, "Dookie". The receipt is dated 07/24/94. Jesus, that's over 10 years ago. Wow, I feel old right now.

And no matter how much they've been played recently, I firmly believe that their album "American Idiot" is one of the defining albums of the last 10 years.

posted by wessonpopp at 1:18 AM

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Aaron, you know I love you, but I am a little concerned about this t-shirt thing. Are you feelin' ok? Bruce and I are afraid you've lost it. But, then again, Bruce and I spend Sunday mornings drinking coffee and watching Spongebob cartoon marathons so we should not throw stones! (We are watching one now and Patric just said, "Don't touch me, I'm sterile!".) By the way, I totally agree with you and I have loved everything Greenday has done, and every album is better than the one before. Screw public opinion, we will do what we want!

8:56 AM  
Blogger Marcia said...

Did you get a chance to download Dean Grey's American Edit when it was out? Want me to make you a copy if you didn't?

9:30 AM  

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