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    • May 24, 2010 9:09 PM CDT
    • a great low budget movie with actual performances by The Standells and The Chocolate Watchband!!!! the movie talks about the real curfew riot of '66 in the strip and was actually released few weeks after the happening. what more can you ask from a movie?!?!?! 

    • May 24, 2010 8:48 PM CDT
    • I think it looks great. Do it! kopper said:

      This isn't my car (mine is a different color blue and has 17" wheels, not 20"s), but here are a couple of photos I found on the Mooneyes site:



      Michael Cosky said:
      Do it. Then go run it on the salt!

      kopper said:
      Call me crazy, call me stupid, but I totally want to put Moon discs on my '07 Dodge Magnum.

    • May 24, 2010 8:10 PM CDT
    • Wow! fuckin' crazy adrenaline addicted..

    • May 24, 2010 9:51 AM CDT
    • Remember when you get get a dozen eggs for a dollar? kopper said:

      What has that got to do with anything?

      brotherkyle said:
      remember when the garagepunk forum was boss?

    • May 24, 2010 7:53 AM CDT
    • What has that got to do with anything? brotherkyle said:

      remember when the garagepunk forum was boss?

    • May 23, 2010 11:49 AM CDT
    • Thanks! I appreciate all the donations that have come in lately. So far we're paid up through October, and that's not even counting Google Adsense revenue! Keep the donations comin'! kopper Petulant Child said:

      always need a place to hide so I'm in with the donation part!!

    • May 21, 2010 8:15 PM CDT
    • always need a place to hide so I'm in with the donation part!!

    • May 24, 2010 9:13 AM CDT
    • i love picon but it's difficult to find in italy!!

    • May 23, 2010 9:33 PM CDT
    • Just watched this movie and it was pretty cool. I had heard about it several times,  found it on Netflix and watched it. If you havent seen it, go watch it, its excellent!

    • May 23, 2010 6:02 PM CDT
    • Well, the most famous and best German liquor brand in my opinion...forget about "Jägermeister"...

    • May 23, 2010 5:56 PM CDT
    • Staropramen, Rothaus Pils, Budvar...

    • May 23, 2010 12:59 PM CDT
    • Steel Reserve!

    • May 23, 2010 2:19 PM CDT
    • Thanks, Ghouls, I've done pretty much the same thing, but I've found that spay doesnt adhere to T's very well, it sort of rests on the surface of fuzz fibers and doesn't get onto the actual surface unless you push it in with a brush or something. Well, maybe all T's aren't the same. I like using a bleach solution on black T's, with a stencil. Here are a few I made a while ago--

    • May 23, 2010 1:48 PM CDT
    • The Von Ghouls said:

      We make our own and it's not so hard. You can do it with your daughter cheap.

      You get fabric paint but really any paint works - I've even used spray paint.

      Print out any design on the computer on paper. Then stick it to a piece of card stock like a cereal box and cut out the letters with a box cutter or x-acto blade. The O's and B's and R's and letters like that have to be stencil-style letters or the middles will fall out.

      Mix the paint with water so it won't clog and put it in a sprayer, like an old windex bottle. Stretch the shirt over a piece of cardboard and spray through the stencil onto the shirt. You can make many shirts, just dry off the stencil first. If it looks half-assed, you now have official garage punk quality! If you iron or tumble-dry the paint to heat-set it before you wash it, it lasts and lasts. This also lets you recycle any old shirt that has space on it.

    • May 22, 2010 4:45 PM CDT
    • Hey guys, thanks to both of you for your help. I don't have a shirt I want to make right now, just trying to get some knowledge. The digital direct printing sounds good. Yeah, 'ray, that laminated sheet look is what I want to avoid!

    • May 22, 2010 11:13 AM CDT
    • The shirts from our Spreadshirt shop are great. The "iPod and Crossbones" print is a thick, fuzzy material... it feels like felt, with a plush, velvety texture. They call it flock printing. I've had one of those shirts for several years now and it has not cracked or peeled at all (I wash all my T-shirts in cold water so they last longer). The other shirts (the ones with the podcast poster images, GaragePunk.com or the GRGPNK fuzzbox logo) use digital direct printing, which means the ink is printed into the fabric, very similar to a screen print. None of our shirts are fleck printed (which are a slick shiny material on the outside of the fabric). I have not heard one person complain about the quality of the shirts from our store here, so I'd say that's a good sign.

    • May 22, 2010 7:35 AM CDT
    • I make t-shirts for a living. There are a few different processes I use... it all depends on what kind of image is going on the shirt and what colour the shirt is. I use a heat-press/vinyl material and I also make laser prints. A printed shirt SHOULD last a long while. It's not always the fault of the manufacturer if the transfer peels off a shirt though... you may have washed it at too hot a temperature.

      I was in the US a while back and saw a mall kiosk t-shirt place - it looked like they laminated a sheet of A4 paper and burnt it onto the shirt - ZOIKS!

      Ultimately you get what you pay for - but if you want to email me some images i'd be happy to see if I can help.

    • May 22, 2010 6:45 AM CDT
    • There's nothing like a good old screened shirt, right? What I'm wondering is what the shirts from all these online apparel sellers are like. My daughter got a shirt made for me a while ago, the image is like a blob of plastic stuck to the shirt, and not only that, it began to crack after a few washes.

       

      Years ago, I had a shirt made at a mall kiosk, it was a heat transfer method, but it was nice and soft, not at all plastic-y, and it lasted for a decade (more, really). But now, all the custom shirts I see are this awful stuff. Any experience, insights? Thanks.

    • May 22, 2010 3:44 PM CDT
    • We like PBR with shots of Jager and Jack. Preferably all in the same glass.

    • May 21, 2010 11:16 PM CDT
    • I really only can drink 3 types of beer.  Redbridge by Busch is actually my favorite, and then there is Bards Tale...and some other kind that comes in a 16 oz bottle.  I also like whiskey.what do other celiacs drink?

    • May 21, 2010 10:31 PM CDT
    • Yea, I know that sounded strange. The thing about this shot isn't actually about the Gin, it's all about the chilli/lime hit. The overall affect is very sobering or at least that's what your senses would have you believe. I can't explain why it works the way it does, it just does. A friend of mine invented this drink one night at the pub he worked at. We were drinking it using Gordon's and it tasted fine. We then decided in the best interests of science that we should try with some other brands to see how it would taste. To my surprise everything bar the Gordon's tasted foul. Now I'm a big Gin fan, there is simply nothing better on a hot summers day than a nice Gin and Tonic. We have tried it with: Beefeater (foul), Bombay Sapphire (not too bad with this one), Gilbeys (gross), Tanqueray (really foul) and some mega cheap no name Gin that was basically ethanol with gin flavour that a drunk punk turned up with (really really really really foul). South Bay PORK Podcast said:

      Inquiring minds want to know!

      kopper said:
      expensive Gin actually tastes really bad in this one

      All right... someone's gotta ask, but how can the price of the gin negatively affect the taste?

      Or, to ask the question another way, how in the world would a cheaper gin actually taste better?

    • May 21, 2010 9:04 PM CDT
    • Inquiring minds want to know! kopper said:

      expensive Gin actually tastes really bad in this one

      All right... someone's gotta ask, but how can the price of the gin negatively affect the taste?

      Or, to ask the question another way, how in the world would a cheaper gin actually taste better?

    • May 21, 2010 8:29 PM CDT
    • expensive Gin actually tastes really bad in this one All right... someone's gotta ask, but how can the price of the gin negatively affect the taste? Or, to ask the question another way, how in the world would a cheaper gin actually taste better?

    • May 21, 2010 8:14 PM CDT
    • @Gary Oldman

      "Gary Oldman's character Stansfield in Leon"

      right on