Friday, 26 April 2013

Day 116



This is it.
Today's the day.
Today is the day that I take the virginity of the Mystery Package*.
Today I probe Matt's inscrutable THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE challenge donation and blindly extract the first of its ten unknown band-themed treasures.

It's just me and the package, alone in the bedroom.
It's been eyeing me up all week, patiently awaiting this moment.
I give it what it wants.
I drive my hand into its indeterminate folds of fabric and wrestle with the tightly interwoven garments that resist my intrusion.
We struggle, I'm forceful.
I grip.
I tug.
I've got one!
I tug some more.

Two thoughts are turning over in my mind at this point. The first thought is, "I'm sorry that this post reads like a page out of 50 Shades Of Grey so far".
And the second thought is "Please be a Vines T-shirt. Please be a Vines T-shirt. Please be a Vines T-shirt"...



Well, this is not a Vines T-shirt. Not even close. It's a T-shirt promoting the curiously titled 3Oh!3 and with that, a third thought enters my mind.
"Who in the heck are 3Oh!3!?"

According to Wikipedia, 3Oh!3 are a US dance outfit.
According to YouTube, I am not a 3Oh!3 fan.

Apparently, the American electropop duo are named for the area code they inhabit, which may well lead the disparaging among you to berate them for making such an obvious and mind numbingly unoriginal decision. However, despite the flawed moniker, the pair have Katy Perry and Kesha collaborations to boast of on their CV, so rest assured, their music is... well... obvious and mind numbingly unoriginal.

Their Mystery Package T-shirt features a heavily detailed direct-to-garment print that at first glance looks like a collision between two interstellar milk floats from an 80's movie poster, with their logo below. On closer inspection, the design is of two slender alien-like hands forming an 'O' shape, set against a background of colliding interstellar milk floats from an 80's movie poster, with their logo below.

So that's one down, nine more Mystery Package wonders to go.
You win this round Matt...

*For a proper introduction to the Mystery Package, have a re-read of the post just after Day 102.

THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE Project

Hi, I’m Andi Best and I’m a regular guy, rising to an irregular challenge.

People tell me I have a lot of T-shirts. These people are not wrong, it’s true, I do.

But one person went as far as to tell me I have so many T-shirts, I could probably wear a different one every day. This is obviously not true, but it got me thinking - what if I could wear a different T-shirt every day? What if I never wore the same T-shirt twice for an entire year?

Challenge accepted

I have created project THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE which, beginning January 1st 2013, will track my pro gress sourcing and wearing a different T-shirt every day for the next 365 days – and I’m going to need your help to do it…

TAKE PART HERE