Mondo Tees I Hate You

For being so awesome. You have been a really bad temptation lately. So, so bad. Mondo Tees, just writing about you right now I am just tempted to jump in my car and head down to Alamo South Lamar and go crazy. First of all, I have already purchased a poster from you months ago during the Night of the Creeps screening. I also had it signed by the director and the man himself, Tom Atkins. Here is a picture of the poster (not my signed copy).

I have this poster, spent 30 bucks on it at the event, and it still sits in the other room rolled up without a frame. I so want to get a frame for this and hang it up, but frames that large are not cheap.

Now you make the most awesome T-shirt I have seen since my Second Amendment one. I saw it the other night while at the Alamo for a free screening of Capitalism: A Love Story (go see it), and had to have it. But then I had to fight it. Frugal.... frugal..... frugal! What is the shirt? Check this out! Awesome, right? A must have for someone like me. A classic play on the old Jason takes Manhattan poster , not to mention that I do heart TX (well, Austin, anyways), and really love Leatherface. as far as horror characters go, he is right below Jason Voorhees for me. I even had Gunnar Hansen, the original Leatherface sign my first edition DVD of Texas Chainsaw Massacre! So needless to say, the shirt is a must have for me. And it was right there in reaching distance. I had the money. By "have the money" I mean I can buy it and not go negative and be fine, but I will be setting myself back in my savings plan. I let it go.

Ha, I haven't even mentioned the super awesome Troll 2 shirt they have, or the ultra limited, glow-in-the-dark, signed and numbered variant Troll 2 poster. But look at that poster! It's 50 dollars! But it is glow in the dark! Signed! Numbered! Variant! Anyone who knows me knows my absolute love for Troll 2. It is without a doubt the best worst movie ever. Don't believe me? There is a documentary about this movie called Best Worst Movie Ever. To me it is legendary. So these items to me are like taunting a recovering cannibal with a plate of human kidney.

And I'm not even close to done yet! Director Lars Von Trier's new movie, Antichrist, just played at Fantastic Fest. I am dying to see it and want to know as little as possible as I can about it. The first trailer to me war haunting, creepy, and beautiful all at once, and I have heard this movie is kind of messed up. I'm hoping that they will show it again for a "Best of the Fest" showing, like they did with Let the Right One In last year. But then again, that would assume that Antichrist was one of the best films of the fest. Well, they had to go off and make a beautiful poster for the event that I would love to have on my wall.

Think I'm done? Picture this shit on your wall! Mother of Christ, I swear to God I think Mondo Tees is plotting to break geeks everywhere with their awesome products. Not only to you have to shell out at least 30 bucks for the posters (not complaining about the price because the quality is well worth it), but then you have to drop however many dollars it takes to buy frames the size of these posters. And these aren't little neeny (yeah spell check, I know it's not a frickin word!) posters.

I love movies.

I love original, quality movie poster art (and these posters are without a doubt art).

I love you, Mondo Tees.

I hate you, Mondo Tees.

Temptation. I must fight it. Think about the long run.

And I'm not even going to get started on the fact that there is a super bad-ass genre film fest in the city I live in (going on right now), along with two other film festivals throughout the year.

Maybe the best way to save money is to live in a podunk little shit-heel town in the middle of nowhere, and cut yourself off from the internet. Then what would you have to tempt you away from your money? A 77oz Dr. Pibb at the local convenience store?

Well, let's wrap this epic up with our daily spending. On the way home for lunch from work I stopped and bought some ice cream for Holly and myself, which was good because she deserved it. She spent all morning busting her ass on the backyard. So that was 3.98. And tonight I had to go get some toilet paper, because I don't think there is enough to last until payday, and a four pack of AA Energizer batteries for our digital cameras (yes, we both got our old Kodak digital cameras working and hooked up, YAY!). I had a dollar off coupon for the TP (and I don't buy that cheap shit, BTW. Charmin ultra strong all the way. There are some things you should treat yourself right to, and tp is one of them!), and a 2 dollar coupon for the batteries. So the total at HEB was 8.83.

Total spending of the day: $12.81

And visit www.mondotees.com for some rad merch.