have you never heard of the phrase "never judge a book by its cover"? i guess we should update that to never judge a person's taste by the t-shirt they wear.:)

about a year ago or maybe two punk rock t-shirts were all the rage here in taiwan. i mean you'd see kids(and tv hosts) wearing shirts for the sex pistols, or wayne county...of course 90% of these kids wouldn't even know what punk was(or worse yet think it meant linkin park or avril lavigne).

for some reason the punk rock shirts didn't surprise me as much as when i saw someone wearing an alien sex fiend shirt. i don't know why, but that surprised me more.

Haven't seen the Olsen twins -- I'm sorry, sisters -- ad for leche yet, but it brings to mind other examples I've seen where the t-shirt doesn't make the man (or woman). One of my favorites is soft-popper Peter Cetera wearing a Bauhaus t-shirt in a music video. I also saw a photo of that Firestone guy from the Bachelor sportin' an MC5 shirt. Maybe' he's a fan, but I doubt it.

As someone who was intimately involved in the LA punk scene in '78, I'm aghast that this slick publication is being touted as somehow representative of the beginnings of New Wave. I'm not sure who was in Wet's target demographic, but I can assure you that it wasn't anyone hanging out at the Whiskey, Madame Wong's, or The Masque unless they were reading it secretly under the covers at home.

Far better chroniclers of those times were 'zines like Flipside and Back Door Man. When I get some free time, I'll scan a couple of my old issues.

Do it, Matt!

I love the WET editorial design, but the ads for salons and fashion designers suggest that it was aiming for a more upscale clientele than the chains-'n'-mohawks crowd. But in terms of page design, it was and still is pretty cutting edge stuff.

I dug around a bit tonight, but couldn't find where I stashed my 'zines. I'll take another stab at it when I get back from Beijing.

That cut-'n'-paste layout style of theirs is very reminiscent of what my old buddy X-8 was doing with the early issues of Flipside a year or so earlier. It'd be interesting to ask him if he knew anyone on Wet's staff.

I've actually heard that the Olsen twins have good taste in music. Or was that Monica Lewinsky? Maybe both. Just because they make their bread by appearing on Access Hollywood doesn't mean they have lowbrow taste.

Let's see. A young pretty girl with white stuff on her mouth while she's wearing a banana t-shirt? It once again proves my theory that advertising is full of perverted bastards.

In the Got Milk? ad, she was wearing an Andy Warhol t-shirt. Andy Warhol. Does he really have anything to do with Velvet Underground, or did they just rip off his ideas, like many, many other bands?

Wait a second, are you saying the vu ripped off andy warhol... i think not. Sometimes people label andy warhol as producer of the vu and nico album. They did not rip off his ideas. Is that what you were saying?

i love the shirt that ashley olsen is wearing in the got milk ad, i have been trying to find it for like 2 months. regardless of weather you have any appreciation of punk rock or the Velvet Underground the shirt is hot. it is also JUST A SHIRT. i apreciate the punk, well more greenday (which i love, but wouldn't consider hardcore) i love the shirt and Andy Warhol. i also think that a lot of people, don't like to see other peoples' views, yet will judge them in a second, you need to realize that you should get over yourself, and a shirt is a shirt, regardless of what is on it.