Father of one with many interests, including a passion for craft beer, bourbon, and coffee. I also enjoy reviewing recipes that I find online, to share my experience cooking as a novice. I am also a screenprinter.
Thanks to everyone who ordered over the past two weeks, it’s been crazy and I appreciate your patience. We recently bought a new house which essentially means that the studio of The Super Sweet Shirt Company had to be relocated as well. To make things even worse, moving day was a mess because the movers cancelled on us with two hours notice…yeah….
Orders only ran a few days late, but we are back to normal and gearing up for the holiday season. The catalog of shirts has gotten pretty big, so everyday this blog will have a new featured shirt from the collection. Take note of the ones you like and copy down the coupon code featured with that shirt for when you start doing your holiday shopping.
I should be back at this blog regularly as we get closer and closer to settling into the new house. Aside from the shirts, I will continue to blog about completely random topics and doing weird tutorials for things I am most likely not good at around the house. Oh..and shirts!
I’ve been wanting to make this shirt for a long time. I am a huge fan of martial art films, “Enter the Dragon” being one of the best of all time. Han’s Tournament is stuff of legend. This shirt pays the ultimate tribute to this extraordinary event.
This shirt came out awesome and would be a great gift for any fan of Bruce Lee or the martial arts in general. This is now available in our Etsy Shop, eBay Store, and at supersweetshirts.com. All of our shirts are screenprinted and 100% guaranteed on American Apparel shirts. 100% American made!
I’m running a bit behind this year, but one of the main goals I had for The Super Sweet Shirt Co. was to transition all of my products to American Apparel products. The overall goal, is to have a product made right here in the USA. Not just the printing, but the entire garment. I have eliminated the option for the “cheaper” shirt on our site. All shirts will now only be printed on American Apparel T-shirts.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be listing clearance items at supersweetshirts.com at crazy low prices. It’s all oddball stuff, extra inventory, etc. There will be some non-American Apparel stuff listed in there because we are clearing out our old inventory. Check it out daily!
The next step is to test and hopefully switch over our onesie inventory to American Apparel as well. Stay tuned!
I’ve decided to start a series of shirts that pay tribute to the great masters of the martial arts. With so many people in the world studying different styles, I figured people would enjoy this line of shirts. The first shirt I made pays tribute to the founder of the style I currently train in: Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido.
One of the genres I have yet to tap into with shirt designs is horror. I used to be more into horror films when I was younger, but my love had turned to action films. I have a folder of shirt designs that a keep, full of projects that I’m working on and design ideas. For a while I had this design I wanted to use of Bela Lugosi, and today I finally made it a reality.
I’m happy with the way the shirt turned out. The shirt is printed with top of the line, white Galaxy water-based ink on premium American Apparel shirts. There is a cheaper garment option available in a standard cotton Gildan brand. This shirt is now available in our Etsy Shop, eBay Store, and at supersweetshirts.com
I listened to two new albums today. Anti-Flag’s new album, “American Spring” and a new album by The Damned called, “So, Who’s Paranoid.” I’ve never been a fan of The Damned, not that I hated them, I just never really chose to listen to them. While Anti-Flag’s album was solid, “So, Who’s Paranoid?” by The Damned was surprisingly one of the best albums I’ve listened to this year and probably one of their best albums as well.
The Damned is one of those bands that is constantly changing their sound. With many bands, that can be a terrible thing, but for an iconic band like this, I think it’s the right move. Other pioneering punk bands of their era, like The Ramones (who I love) changed their sound slightly, but for the most part remained constant. What you end up getting is a discography of albums that rock, but sound the same. Not with The Damned. This album exemplifies the successful evolution of an ageing, yet legendary punk band.
The ghoulishly gothic vocals are in full effect on this album, starting strong with “A Nation Fit For Heroes.” I was expecting to turn this album on and have it turned off in less than a minute, but the dark new wave sound of this song had me hooked. Fully loaded with a rocking keyboard and corny rock guitar solos, this song kept that rare balance of being awesome, while slightly cheesy.
Perhaps my favorite song on the record “Under the Wheels” is a must listen. Another song that sounds like it could be awful for the first 30 seconds, before the insanely catchy chorus hits you. I found myself listening to this song multiple times today, singing it with a gigantic shit-eating grin.
The entire album is strong from start to finish. For an album with 16 songs, this is impressive. Dave Vanian’s vocals on the album almost remind me of Jyrki 69 of 69 Eyes, but not entirely.
If you’ve never been a fan of The Damned, I urge you toss your opinions aside and check out this album. I was like you. Today I am forever a changed man.
Supersweetshirts.com has received a full makeover. Everything is now easily searchable and more organized, making it easy to find exactly what you’re looking for. Be sure to check out all that is new on the site. Speaking of “new,” my first order of business this week was correcting my V for Vendetta shirt. I basically hated the shirt, and I wasn’t selling any.
My wife has told me multiple times, “quotes are hard.” They are. I need to not do them. There were other glaring problems with the shirt, including the barely visible “V” in the background. Well, today that was about to change. I had an idea what I wanted to do, so I did some experimenting.
The finished product is one that I love. Check it out:
Matt Skiba and The Sekrets have released their new album, “Kuts”, and I’m not sure how I feel about it. Usually when I review an album, I listen to it twice, then I have a pretty decent idea how I feel about it. Not with this one. Even worse, I either love it, or I completely hate it. Is that crazy?
These days, when a veteran rocker releases a new album, I try to look at it from a different perspective. Is it just the same old stuff? Or is it true to its roots, while incorporating something fresh? Is it totally different, and if so, was it a huge mistake? Skiba has always been rather creative and has always continued to evolve his sound. If you are unfamiliar with his other band Alkaline Trio, start off listening to their album, “Maybe I’ll Catch Fire.” Now listen to the album, “My Shame is True”, which was released 13 years later. Its radically different, and with all the albums in between, you can literally hear them evolve slowly over that 13 year period. A truly awesome band to listen to.
After listening to this album twice, I’m not sure if Matt Skiba and The Sekrets have released anything that special here. One review that I read mentioned that the album had the sound of “a band no longer curated by a record executive with no actual idea of what makes good music.” I think this is a bit dramatic.
The first song on the album, “Lonely and Kold,” is surprisingly upbeat, sounding just like the later years of Alkaline Trio. It was a song I went back to and listened to a few times, and probably the best song on the album.
However, as the album progresses, it turns slowly into a very generic version of Heavens, another one of Skiba’s bands which only put out one album in 2006. Heavens was pitched more as a goth album, but every song on the album was humorously memorable. The problem with “Kuts,” is that nothing on the album is memorable. Most of the songs sound like rehashed versions of past songs, blended together to create a monotonous release not worthy of being a conversation starter. Listening to “Never Believe,” I almost found the song title fitting because I actually had a hard time believing this song wasn’t on a past album.
I’m not saying this is a bad album, because it’s not. When you have one of those days where you’re sick of everything in your collection, this is a decent album to listen to. Skiba definitely sticks to his roots with this album, but so much that “Kuts” fails to establish itself as anything more than “just another album.
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