=w= tidings, or a brief history of a slight obsession

Ok all. I didn’t indulge in wishing =w= tidings to everyone anyone who reads this blog last thursday I was too busy listening to my albums and pondering over who else might be wearing a weezer tee on the most holiest of days. For anyone not familiar with this holiday which shares it’s date with a much more famous greeting card day, I have been celebrating International weezer T-Shirt Day since 2000 when I bought my first weezer shirt. Before 1999 I was a pretty casual fan listening to The Blue Album a bit but when I was 13 I discovered Pinkerton. It was Christmas ‘99 and after that I felt totally an utterly compelled to adorn myself and my bedroom with all things weezer and spend most of, if not every waking minute of my life, listening to Pinkerton, downloading b-sides obscure rarities and then the green album when it was released in 2001. It’s no secret that in the early days we played almost every weezer song under the sun and were slagged off for almost being a weezer cover band by our school… I was going to say friends but that’s not the word I’m looking for… Anyway, I still think that if it wasn’t for weezer we wouldn’t be making the kind of music we make. So basically  I found out that on the 14th Feb every year weezer fans throughout the world wear their t shirts on that day, apparently to commemorate the anniversary of the bands first practice… though I’ve always suspected that it has a lot to do with a happy coincidence of dates and the weezer core fanbase’s  (which I very happily belong to) dating ability. The only thing is that the unity of the day has always been lost on me. The weezer top I wear is a black and white baseball top with ‘weezer 00′ on the back to signify the year 2000 when I bought it, even though I have other tops now I still choose to wear that one every year as a sort of tradition. Here’s a picture of us in 2002 at a weezer concert at the Barrowlands in which you can see a bit of my favourite t-shirt:

This Picture was actually taken by Karl Koch and appeared on weezer.com the following day. (best day ever!!) When I was in school wearing it under a white shirt on 14th Feb everyone could see the letters on the back and I always loved that people knew what I was doing and some folks even joined in. However, It is always freezing in Glasgow on 14th Feb so I’m always wrapped up as I assume every other hypochondriac weezer fan like myself is, so I can never spot anyone else partaking in the great day. I have since come to the conclusion that I don’t want to know if anyone else is sporting one because I’m starting to suspect that I might be the only one. So just savour the =w= day messages and calls I still get from friends on that day. Anyway, if you were wearing a weezer t-shirt on Thursday or even if you weren’t I just wanted to wish a happy =w= to all…and if you were out gettin romantic then I hope you didn’t que too long at Clintons to get that red teddy bear that just says everything you could never articulate in just the right way… (ooh that was a bit bitter, better save that sentiment) … and that you had a nice evening (perfect). 

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