Uncle Gabby T-Shirt Results!

The poll is over and we decided to print not only one but the two most voted designs!

Here are the results

#1. Uncle Gabby, car 26 (25%)

#2. Uncle Gabby, restroom 24 (23%)

#3. Uncle Gabby and Drinky Crow 23 (22%)

#4. Uncle Gabby, chair, bottle 19 (18%)

#5. Uncle Gabby, pissed 10 (9%)

We will be shipping on 01/25 but you can start ordering now to reserve yours!

Maakies: Uncle Gabby in Car

Maakies: Uncle Gabby in Toilet

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New collection! I love Maakies

It is a great honour to announce that I Love Waterloo has just launched a new collection of Maakies T-shirts.

Maakies (www.maakies.com) is an acclaimed comic strip by Tony Millionaire, collected by Fantagraphics and adapted to the small screen as The Drinky Crow Show for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.

Dark and bizarre, it focuses on the adventures of drunk and violent antiheroes, usually involved in the strangest situations.

We are proud to say that Mr Tony Millionaire himself has approved this new collection. If you are a fan of Drinky Crow or Uncle Gabby, like us, you wouldn’t like to miss the chance of having your favourite character on a T-shirt. Visit http://ilovewaterloo.com/maakies_tshirts.php and choose your favourite!

Ilowaterloo.com ranked as one of the most stylish t-shirt websites

Great news!
CSSStyle has chosen our website as one of the 17 most stylish t-shirt websites.

Cssstyle site was built by morepixel, a german web and design agency specialized building modern Websites. Anyone can add his or her favourite website in Cssstyle, and it will be examined by their professional editors.

Ilovewaterloo.com was chosen among other great t-shirt websites, like Pop Junkie Design, la Fraise, Clear Cut Case and many others. You can go to http://www.cssstyle.me/content/the-17-most-stylish-tees-websites-460 to read the complete list.
Finally, we would like to thank CSSStyle for choosing Ilovewaterloo.com. It is always very nice when someone recognizes your work…

The story behind… The Rolling Stones’ Some Girls

The Rolling Stones have risen and fallen many, many times in their 46 years in rock and roll. Some Girls was probably their greatest musical comecback ever.

The seventies was a difficult decade for the band. After all-time classics like Sticky Fingers (1971) and Exile On Main St (1972), the Stones released three records that weren’t bad at all, but didn’t reach the quality of the previous ones. Goats Head Soup (1973), It’s Only Rock And Roll (1974) and Black And Blue (1976) showed a band out of focus. Jagger, Richards & co. were in their late thirties and were looked as dinosaurs by a new generation of angry young men and women who were called punks. It was time to revitalize the Stones’ music.

Some Girls (1978) was the first studio record with Ron Wood as permanent member of the band. He excels as pedal steel guitarist in a country song named “Far Away Eyes”, one of the highlights of the album, along with “Beast Of Burden”, “Before They Make Me Run” and a Temptations’ cover, “Just My Imagination”.

For this new record, two recently-born genres were added to the musical palette: punk and disco. The band took them and played in a personal and interesting way. The songs “Respectable” and “Lies” showed the energy and sarcasm of punk, while “Miss You” was an immediate hit with its disco beat, an amazing bass line and Jagger’s falsetto vocals. This Stones’ approach to disco music was criticized by some fans and journalists, but the song is still hailed today as one of their greatest.

The album cover was designed by an artist called Peter Corriston,. An elaborate die-cut design, with colors varying on different sleeves, it originally featured the five members of The Rolling Stones and select female celebrities in garish drag, as well as a bunch of lingerie ads and the name of the ten songs of the album.

The cover immediately ran into trouble when some of those celebrities featured in it threatened legal action. Lucille Ball (star of I Love Lucy, a classic sitcom of the fifties), Farrah Fawcett (then starring Charlie’s Angels), Liza Minnelli (representing her mother Judy Garland), Raquel Welch, and the estate of Marilyn Monroe were not happy with the cover…

Corriston would design the next three album covers as well, but Some Girls remains as his most famous (and polémica) work. At ilovewaterloo we love this record and the cover, so we decided to create a T-shirt as a tribute, featuring some of one of those designs that scandalized the celebrities mentioned above. You can find it in www.ilovewaterloo.com. Visit our website!

What’s your favourite Kubrick?

You may agree with us: A Clockwork’s Orange is one of the best movies ever. Based on a book written by Anthony Burgess, this masterpiece was directed by Stanley Kubrick, one of the best filmakers of all time.

A Clockwork’s Orange was released in 1971, but Kubrick had been making movies from many years before. His filmography is outstanding and includes a great variety of movie genres. Paths Of Glory (1957) was probably his first critical success, a war/antiwar story that in a way anticipates to other films of this genre like Apocalypse Now or Born on the Fourth of July.

Analysing his career, it seems clear that Kubrick was always exploring new fields. During the sixties, he directed an epic production like Spartacus (1960), the controversial Lolita (1962, based on Vladimir Nabokov’s novel), the sinister and macabre antiwar comedy Dr Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964) and 2001: A Space Odissey (1968), a Sci-Fi movie which would become a landmark in his career and in movie history. All very different, all fascinating, all looking for more than just telling a plain story.

When the next decade arose, Kubrick prefigurated the violent times ahead with A Clockwork’s Orange, a dark and shocking fantasy in which he explored the use and abuse of violence in a fictional British society in the future. Alex and his hooligan gang are the main characters of the movie; teenage misfits and killers at the beginning of the film, their luck changes to become victims of the same brutal society. From its obvious and explicit violence, the films offers many interpretations and, in that sense, is a classical Kubrick work.

A Clockwork’s Orange T-shirt has been in our catalog since the beginning of ilovewaterloo.com. As you can see in our website, it can be purchased in the classic orange color with a black stamp, but also in white, green and pink.

We have recently added a T-shirt of The Shining (1980) to our collection, but maybe it is time to pay tribute to Kubrick once again. Which of his movie could feature our next T-shirts collection. Could it be Paths of Glory? What about Lolita? 2001: A Space Odissey? Or the great Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove? Leave us your opinion!

Alexander Supertramp and some questions into the wild

What happens when you are young and successful, but suddenly discover that you are not happy with your life and your destiny? Bob Dylan’s masterpiece “Like A Rolling Stone” tells the story of a girl who had it all and out of the blue loses everything. But what happens when you are the one who decide to be a rolling stone, not due to an external reason, but because you discover you don’t like your life?

One of our new T-shirts is inspired by a movie about someone who asked this question, and decided it was time to do something. The movie is Into The Wild, based on the real story of Chris McCandless. After graduating from university, Chris left his family and friends, gave away his savings of $24,000 to Oxfam and got away to begin a new life. He chose a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and travelled across the States like a complete unknown, with no direction home. He finally arrives to Alaska, where he dies after living approx. 4 months alone in the wild forest.

Besides the sad ending, Chris/Alexander’s search is authentic. And that’s probably what Sean Penn also felt and what encouraged him to make this movie, his first one as a Director. Featuring Emile Hirsch as Chris/Alexander, Into The Wild takes us on a trip across the beautiful landscapes of Deep America, while the main character travels looking for life experiences.

At first, you feel sympathetic for Alexander and his bohemian view of life. He struggles to find the meaning of 'real' existence, away from the trappings of the modern world. But then you realise that his search caused him his death. He ventured deep into a wilderness area on his own, without adequate planning, preparation and supplies, so it was almost guaranteed to end in disaster. For some experts, he essentially committed suicide, and this is possibly true. This inevitably leaves a bitter taste in every spectator. Do you agree with the way Chris dealt with his problems? Was he really looking for the meaning of 'real' existence or just trying to escape from his problems, and getting lost in Alaska was the final –definitive- solution?

Tshirt: Into the wild

A great rock myth: The Dark Side Of Oz

Rock and roll is full of myths. You may have heard some of them: Paul McCartney died in a car accident in 1966, Jim Morrison and Elvis are still alive… and many others.

This time we would like to refer to one of those great myths: the relationship between Pink Floyd’s masterpiece The Dark Side Of The Moon and the movie The Wizard Of Oz, directed by Victor Fleming.

Recorded in 1973, the former is arguably the best album by Pink Floyd, and one of the best in rock and roll history. A collection of nine sonic and ethereal songs about mundane, everyday details, masterly interpreted by Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Rick Wright, Nick Mason and guest musicians.

The latter was filmed many years before Floyd’s album, in 1939, and is also a classic. Judy Garland plays Dorothy, the young girl who is transported to a magical land called Oz, where she meets new friends: the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardyl Lion. Together, they follow a yellow brick road to Emerald City, where Dorothy would find the Wizard of Oz, someone who can help her to return to her home in Kansas.

Although the legend of The Dark Side of Oz (or The Dark Side of the Rainbow) is very famous among Pink Floyd fans, its origin is not clear. It refers to the act of watching the film and listening to the record at the same time. This weird theory became so popular that, in July 2000, the cable channel TCM (Turner Classic Movies) aired a version of Oz with the Dark Side album as an alternate soundtrack.

Apparently, there is an interplay between the film and the album, and many fans have collected different moments in which this interplay is noticeable. For example, the chimes in the song “Time” begin at the appearance of one of the characters, the witch Almira Gulch, on her bicycle, and the chimes stop when she dismounts. You can find a complete and synchronized list of The Dark Side of Oz moments in http://members.cox.net/stegokitty/dsotr_pages/printable.htm

Is this true? Well, for the creators of the The Dark Side Of The Moon, it is just a fantasy. Roger Waters, the mastermind behind the concept of the album, has denied many times the influence of the movie in the songs and said that it is only a coincidence, while his fellow bandmates agree with him.

Anyway, the idea of a combination between The Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wizard Of Oz sounded very attractive to us. That’s why we decided to create this original T-shirt. Hope you like it!