GET YOUR SWEETIE A HOODIE, MAN.

Just like Glenn Beck and others in the fast paced world of the internet taste making (huh?) we're gearing up to offer folks a heckuva deal for the upcoming Valentine's Day Holiday. That's right, we've got a deal for you. It's something real nice, we think:

We start with a fine, hooded Sweatshirt. We add a high quality foam coozie. We add two stickers. We also add a fine Hershey, Pennsylvania-produced bar of chocolate. We wrap it all in an old copy of the Missoula Independent, slap an utterly insane low, low, Lolo pricetag on the whole shooting match, and voila! You're covered. Think about it. And choose to act upon it, if it strikes you as a good idear. The place: statriot.com.

CLOSER TO WHAT?

Yeah, that´s a valid enough question we guess. Here´s the answer: So, while many know us from our expletive-laden work, turns out we´ve got stuff that´s 100% family-friendly up here in the hills outside Statriosburg.

Yep, and this design here, called Closer, is one of our absolute newest. We wanted it to be clean, simple and wordless and just kind of stark. Like if somehow the Mission range were weirdly, perfectly illuminated on a clear winter´s night. Say you stopped a little north of Ronan and gazed eastward? We figured, this, or something approaching it might be what you see. There are but a few places in the world that can boast the natural wall-hangings it´s pretty easy to walk past on an average day in MT.

Uh, yeah... so, yeah. So I always loved this image on Joy Division´s Unknown Pleasures album. We thought it was actually called "Closer," which is a whole separate album. Well, by the time we got the design out of the shop, Closer had stuck.... and hey, voila. If you want a good pre-Joy Division deal, check out the Warsaw LP in its entirety. Awesomely robotic punk.

If it all strikes your fancy, find your way over to statriot.com, which is our store site. We have shirts and coozies.

IT'S A COOZIE-FILLED WORLD, WE JUST LIVE IN IT.

We've been keeping beer cold in coozies since the 90's, man. Seriously, however, what an interesting thing to search around the internet for. Seems like there are fifteen hundred different variations on the traditional foam rubber can-holster we generally run with. There's the bottle coozie, bottle coozie with zipper, bottle coozie shaped like a Philadelphia 76ers jersey, there's this, there's that, there's the other thing.

We've kept it utterly basic here at the Statriot mountain bunker. There's no extra frills, no zippers, no dashboard-adhering suction cup. Just a cylinder with a closed end, into which you can pop your 12-16 oz. canned drink. We'll stop the rambling and show you our newest-latest coozie: it's the Closer design and we like it just fine. It joins the ranks of the Ram and and the Pronghorn as the Treasure State's most worn-in coozie.
Now, if you're unfamiliar with the work of Portland, Oregon's Red Fang, we recommend that you start with this homage to LARPing called Prehistoric Dog.

KIDS, SHIRTS. KID-SHIRTS ARE NOW!

Just take a look at this rogue. When he's not reading books, eating cookies or singing songs, the guy's making stuff from blocks and being stoked! This is one of the unofficial mascots of Missoula's excellent, ethical Kid Shop, Blackbird on S. Higgins. Stop in and peruse their gear. Meanwhile, over at statriot.com, we've just busted loose a handful of these sharp kid-sized designs.

PRODUCTOS NUEVOS, SALE GRANDE, Y YOUTUBE RECOMENDACIONES.

That's correcto, amigos. The folks at the Statriot bunker, in addition to doing one-handed pushups, eating generic Cheetos and listening to lots of Egyptian, Cajun and country music have been plenty busy the past handful of weeks. We've got new designs on-offer, have built some pretty low-cost holiday deals ($40 gets you a hoodie, coozie and pair of stickers), and are going to be at the Fair at the Emerson in Bozeman on Saturday December 11th and at the MADE Fair in Missoula on Sunday, December 12th. Stop by and say hello!

Let's take a look at some of our newer things here: First up, in the photo below we've got our new embroidered Montana Coat of Arms zipper hoodie! These are all the rage from Drummond to Desmet and from Kremlin to Colstrip. We've got a real hot special offer over at the Statriot Store.
And here's a closeup of the fine sew-job on this patch:


That's enough for a quick update, we think. That accept I think I said I'd make some youtube recommendations. We're suckers for music videos here. Heck, if we had cable we'd weight 471 lbs and the TV'd be on VH1-classic 25 hours a day.. but seriously, there's a treasure trove of great live appearances on the German Beat Club TV show out there. Here's some video of Black Sabbath playing Blue Suede Shoes. Let it play and you get all sorts of wild Sabbath footage. What shredders! Hard to touch these dudes.

HEY, SHIRTS!

WE KNOW, WE KNOW. The new art on the header is way awesome. What can we say. We paid a guy a lot of money, and you know, you pay for what you get. So, yeah. That's what we got. So, yeah, awesome.

In terms of this other stuff...What has Santa brought early? Why, it's shirts, man. Shirts with some new designs on them. Here they are.

Seriously though, we've got a handful of new gear in the works, just in time to give your ma, pa, sweetie, bro, sis, frien', etc. something nice. These already being sold at great shops like Betty's Divine (Missoula), Blackbird Kid Shop (Missouala), Frayed Sew (Helena), Four O-Six (Helena) and at good ol' Statriot.com.

What do we have there? Wellsirs 'n ma'ams, it's the Montana Coat of Arms, that's all. In keeping with our Missoula, Bozeman, Salt Lake and Portland Coats, this Montana COA tips cap to the great Euro styled dancing fish, weird deer and castle turrets. We picked wheat, a rocky front, some bolts and an eagle to rep our states wide open places, mystic faces and errr, yeah. Hoodies coming!

Next up, MT Closer. We thought that Joy Division had this album called "Closer" and that album's cover had this cool three-D sort of EKG reading deal that sort of looks like an undersea mountain range or something. Turns out, that album's called "Unknown Pleasures" and our design really has not much to do with it anyway. We like it just the same. Expect koozies!

Big, big thank yous to Andrea and Tom, our models. Both Andrea and Tom do creative, awesome stuff in Missoula. Andrea works under the name Salty and Sweet, and makes mobiles (avail. at House downtown, via her etsy site, and at the MADE Fair) and Tom is Shahs, a one-dude tropicalia cum Suicide blast.

Total Fest: This week in Missoula!

We at Statriot are good music lovers . Whether it's the Real Kids, Fela Kuti, Harvey Milk, Erkin Koray, the Lyres, Discharge, Humpy, Melvins, Wire, Ali Farka Toure, etc. we're always listening to music. This week, August 19-21, we're helping to put on Total Fest IX. The ninth Total Fest. The schedule of events is up at totalfest.org. Consider coming out, amigos.

We've also launched a new web store at statriotdesigns.com! From coozies to hoodies and, errr, all things between. It's on there.