Because it's been a while.

Although they say that silence is golden I imagine when it comes to the world of blogs the only colour that is produced by inactivity is the pitch black abyss of nothing. A mawdling prosepct if wasn't so bloody sunny outside and an ideal oppurtunity to add some Wiiiidescreen photos of the shop. Wow! look at them, amazing eh? It's like you're almost actually there. I'll leave these with you to ponder over, a suting distraction from the horrors of daily life until we get round to something a bit more interesting. T-shirts ideas are coming together and the webstore is loomin' on the virtual horizon, that and more exciting cards from the man Boo Cook. Be back soon, promise.

Fear and Loathing within a specified number of characters.

Yo what's up!
I'm here on the flow-ride checking out my bloods with a 40oz. Ya get me?
Right that's enough street talk for the day, now for some updates.
Things are a little slow at boy parker towers at the mo'. We're waiting for all the new amazing everything to come in and only now is it starting to peter into the shop. Disturbia the Geordie 'horror tee' brand seem to be first out with an excellent new season. My favourite is just below with their homage to Hunter S. Thompsons most infamous road-trip. I'm always amazed how when you see Johnny Depp talking fo' real nowadays he still talks like he did in Terry Gilliams last decent film, it must have had some effect on him. Apparently prior to that he sounded a bit like a Kentucky version of Jeanette Kranky. So yeah, disturbia, come get some.

The other sad news is finally Boy Parker has succumbed to the brief description of your every movement sensation that is twotter, sorry, twitter. If you want to know when we last had a bowel movement, what new stuff has come in , or what we are watching while we skive then please make your way over to; www.twitter.com/boyparker. Where you can follow us like a virtual stalker to your hearts content.

Look it's the t-shirt i was talking about....

We draw a line....

Boy parker towers are always open too all kinds of designs and browse the interweb on a second by second basis. Follow the link below for an example of a tee that if only i had the balls. You have to have a good look at it to get the 'joke'. I think i might get if for me mum next christmas, she loves Queen. This evening i shall be doing a little prayer that somebody has bought this and is wearing it, right this very moment, just thinking it is a lovely innocent homage to the queen that is f.mercury, god rest his spandex jumpsuit.

http://africanapparel.bigcartel.com/product/freddy-t-shirt

and as a reminder here is their greatest moment after breakthru......

New year, New goddamn everything!!!!!

I love exclamation marks me, the more the better. I once saw 312 exclamation marks all lined up in a row once; standing on yer head it looked a bit like a stickman version of a Hitler youth rally, did at the time anyway.
What I love even more (being a child of the short attention span spawning decade that was the 80's) are new things, shiny, lovely, fresh new things and 2010 for Boy Parker is going to be chock full of said new things.
Not only are you going to get more sparkly hot diggedy from all our current sweet as brands but Boy Parker towers also have some proper tidy NEW tee brands that we are sure you're going to love. On top of that we are planning to bring into the shop some rather nice menswear brands, hunted out and selected with the same care and attention that we give every single tee design that appears. That one is defintiely a watch this space.
Finally and most excitedly Boy Parker will be bringing out a few of their own tee designs that have been brewing for a while now. You may have to wait until the summer for them, but good thngs come to those who wait, especially if you really are a massive fan of buses.
Finally if you're a fan of shouty, drumming, prog, space-noise, brilliance like i have been last year then i recommend you take a squizz at one of me favourite bands of last year Zorch (http://zzoorrcchh.com/), fill your email and pretend name in to this link and you get sent some free songs which i like listening to while looking at this picture, happy 2010.

BP.

Window Watch ;Week 1

Here at boy parker we like to eek something out for as long as possible until it's a shrivelled husk lying by the side of the road looking a bit like all those old dudes during the swiming pool sequence in Cocoon. With that in mind let me introduce the beginning of an ongoing series of entries following the dramatic fast-paced world of the shop window entitled 'window watch'. At the moment it is just a weak idea to make you look at t-shirts while i distract you with rambling diatribes about nocturnal lizards or the surge of the fantasy/sci-fi movie sub-genre of the early to mid eighties, good times, good times.
All these tees that you see are available to buy instore. If you are looking at this in 2012 then the world ain't ended but you are too late as it's sold out. Or, i have been doing some really bad buying and please take one off my hands. Look out for future editions of window watch, i imagine they are going to be freaking amazing.

Drawing on walls

So, the middle room of the shop (which in a previous life was essentialy just a dumping ground for all kinds of gumph) has now been given a spruce up with an all-over wall mural by the excellent car-hating-grumpy/not grumpy-northern-illustrative-underdog (my words not his) Andy P (www.andypbatch25.blogspot.com). I think you will agree it is a fine piece of ink and brush work that really brings to life what was once just a bleak unlit room that held a couple of mannequins and a filing cabinet containing a bunch of old 70's Playboys. Please peruse the foties and wonder at the imagery of a monolithic rock emmitting a plethora of creatures onto an other-worldy cityscape. Thankfully he is a better drawer and i am clearly a better photo taker (you'll see what i mean on his blog, have a look go on.) otherwise this could have a been a very odd post about a man talking about terrible snaps of a load of stick figure godzillas, wait a minute, that sounds pretty sweet. I need me another wall!

Designs for life.

The header isn't a reference to those Welsh pop/rock dullards but to recent superb telly show 'design for life' where pot-bellied French design guru Philippe Starck humiliates a load of English fools who aspire to make the new cup. I reckon he did it on purpose to show us all up.
Talking of new designs, we ,Boy Parker, have some for our new cards for when people are in the shop and ask : do you have a card? This is second batch and they continue the theme of trump cards featuring (maybe) familiar faces from film/comics/blah. They have also been drawn again by space traveller and danger to small animals Boo 'Kratom' Cook, follow the link god darn it and look and some of his other pictures, he's Brighton answer to Jack Kirby!!!
Soon we'll start putting some actual t-shirts up here but as none of you know this exists yet, i ain't gonna worry too much.

So yeah, there they are, they seem to have come out in a funny colour though, the green has come out all blue, don't know what that's about.