Yard Sale

I did a regular persons week recently. The five days ended on monday which is why you haven't heard a peep from me. Skateboarding occurred on both of my days off which I am glad about. Tuesday involved skating in the rain at Cantelowes with Charlie which may sound bad to you but we had a whale of a time. Added danger equals double the fun. I followed that up with a private Playstation session with Dan and Frank. Good times. The private TF night was capped with sausage and mash at S+M. Winning!
Yesterday involved Jon L and Benji. I copped a £2.29 discount pizza express deal in Waitrose prior to leaving my house as well as picking up a Slits 7' and a random two tone one from my local charity shop. We missioned it over to Ladywell to skate the little council built park there. Bargains were in the air. Parking up we spied a sign saying Yard Sale in someone's front garden. I hopped out of Luigi (the car not our staff member) and skated off to the sale. First thing I picked up was an old eighties NY Giants NFL jacket. I'm always on the lookout for this sort of thing. My only purchase was the first thing I picked up and it set me back £5. None of your £50 vintage clothes shop malarkee. Jon found an old Hip Hop 12' and Benji found a polaroid camera. These were £1 and £2 respectively. The gods of thrift were smiling on us that day, I think the guy even gave Benji a screwdriver. Skateboarding was good for me, not for Benji who had a brand new air vent he had ripped in his new jeans. From waist to knee he was open and a fruitless search of Lewisham for replacement trousers meant the rip stole an hour from him too. After an amazing Indian meal I watched this old absolute classic..



"You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word" -Al Capone. If you have never seen it which I can't imagine you really should, "smoke em if you got em" Rob has been doctoring his Spitfire stickers...



..with the colours at hand he managed to make three of the four. From left to right, Raphael, Leonardo and Michelangelo. An absence of a purple sticker made Donatello impossible. Good work Rob! Following Toby's clearance sale at the weekend there is one of our own on the go in the store and also via mail order. If like me yesterday you have a keen eye for a bargain jump on this chance to pick up a Suburban Bliss shirt for a shockingly cheap £15. Have a look at them here..

http://www.slamcity.com/store//index.php?cPath=37_106

Get them before they're gone. I know some of you will be reading this behind a desk somewhere and that the scenery may not be so hot. This is not the case for our web-lord Jackson. He can do his absolutely anywhere..



Beam those Suburban Bliss orders over to his main frame ASAP!

Just another manic Monday..

..not wishing it was Sunday though, I'm glad the next two days are mine to do as I will. The 3 Amigos today. Myself, Jackson and Hops. Hops is making balloon animals, Jackson is juggling and I'm peddling squirty flowers. Cruiser boards aplenty left the store this weekend gone. My favourite was this Phil Frost Shut board with the Zip Zinger wheels..



Maybe you'll see it zoom past you at light speed somewhere on your travels. I enjoyed a good meal last night at the Croydon park hotel. They do a Sunday evening carvery. The beef was delicious. The hotel is just around the corner from Fairfield halls. Fairfield halls has been celebrated by Adam over at Drawing Boards ...



..and so has the one legged pigeon. This board has just dropped and will soon be available to buy. Upon arriving home I took down one of my recently purchased dvd's..



It's pretty good. Written and directed by Luke Wilson with the feel good factor of a film like Bottle Rocket. It's about a paroled convict whose work placement upon release is at a care home for the elderly. Luke Wilson's charcter Wendell discovers that his brother Owen's character Neil is up to no good and the film is about him trying to help the folks in the home and win back his girlfriend Doreen played by Eva Mendes from the local grocer played by Will Ferrel. It has an all star cast by all accounts, even Kris Kristofferson is in it. Talking of paroled convicts check out this guy..



Guilty as charged but still roaming the streets. They fall for that suit and tie scam every time.

Van Wastell

I heard some bad news this Sunday morning..



I'm never one to put too much faith in message board reports but I have been assured that Van Wastell's passing is indeed true and that is a terrible shame.

The rain poured down..

..on South London. It was a quiet evening permeated by the pleasant noises of the Wonk Unit and then later by other punk bands. All was well with me in the South but I sensed a disturbance in the force..



...uncannily I knew the baron was up to something in central London. He'd stopped off on his way home without telling anyone. That can always spell trouble. My suspicions were confirmed when..



I think the secret recipe acquired may have been chilli sauce and I'm pretty sure Captain Crunch and his army could not have stopped the Baron taking this down..



Saturday night kebab-gunshot! I could play it all cool and pretend that post was just an after thought, a little yarn I absent mindedly spun. The reality is the Transform-a-snack images have been lurking in the Alley cam since I got back from Cornwall. Dan picked the crisps up at the first garage we visited. They've been burning a hole in my blog logging fingers waiting for input from Neil. I'd like to tell you the kebab was followed by a box of celebrations but can't be sure. Glad they're out there.

Return of the Mack..

..our own Mack daddy is back doing good and looking fly. Luigi lets that Slam hoody work it's magic on the ladies not too far from home..



Unfortunately his birthday celebrations this thursday coming are not too far from home either. Think it's a Kingston bday bash this Thursday coming so it may have to be a Friday flip side respect paying from my end. The man himself just walked in with our lunch for today. What's it to be..



I'm backing this bill-board statement completely. Best food on Earth! As I told Luigi and Hops earlier who were arguing that it's grade F chicken. It's actually phenomenal chicken. Top tier lunch today. Graham Baker gave me a call earlier to see if I'd re-thread some axles for him. Of course I would was my response. I wasn't quite sure of this tasks enormity until the bag unleashed these bad boys..



Which were accompanied by all kinds of other debris..



He left with a quiver of fully operational hangers. Strapped! I fixed some old Gullwing base plates for him too. For no other reason than his presence being missed on the Alley here's a picture of Neil and his friend Chalky from his birthday bash a few weeks back...



Get those lunches out Neil!

Appetite for destruction

The last week has been an appetite sandwich shop rinse out. My advice is avoid the Cornish pasty. Anyone in their right mind would do anyway. I'm pretty sure my appetite is going to investigate eateries further afield even though it's proximity and prices make it a no brainer. There's an Independent tour on it's way, you've got a week or so to ready yourselves..



It's an impressive line up. Getting to see Stu Graham skate anywhere is a treat so make one of these destinations if you can. The news of this tour came in from John Joe today. Other things from Shiner we have here for you this weekend that haven't appeared before are these Baker boards..



The series looks crisp on the wall. Whilst on the subject where is Graham Baker? Graham was a no show last week but I'm sure he'll be in tomorrow or Sunday to pick up October's Thrasher magazine..



The colourful wooden letters Mark Ward used in his show have been re-arranged and played with recently. Faeces is spelt easily and you can guess the rest. Mike was sent down to change them back into saying we're the kids of America. He finished the task and was called out. Do you see a problem here?



Sterling work Mike. Lixo who played a set at the last Slam night dropped in a few Get ME tees which are on sale here now. Get Me is a night he puts on. The illustration on the shirt was done by our very own Rob Mathieson who is currently moonwalking through the mud at Bestival. The shirts come in two colours..



The letters are filled with some of Rob's hill-billy zombies you may have seen in Document's +1 supplement. Here's one of them eating a baby..



These are £24.95 and we only have a few so get involved. Mike's getting ready for his car boot sale. If you too fancy snapping up some bargains this weekend get yourself down to Toby Shuall's Suburban Bliss super sale..



Take care y'hear

No Aloha

Had a good skate yesterday afternoon and then took in the Breeders show in Shepherds Bush. There was a turn out for it. Gareth, Sam, Hops and Tamsin and Dan, Hattie and Claire. The show was amazing, such a good sound they have. Kim Deal's voice never fails to impress me. She could be my favourite female vocalist..



It wasn't just a vehicle for the new album either, they played a lot of stuff from the older albums. If you aren't familiar with their work, pick up any one of these albums. I'm backing them..



My advice is start at the start and pick up a copy of Pod. They're playing at Bestival this weekend so Dan, Steve, Rob, Charlie, Felix and Nugget will hopefully not manage to miss them but in all actuality probably will. Mj Fox is away this weekend too, luckily I have four new dvd's and a history of the Sicilian Mafia to take in. The dvd's are as follows-The Untouchables, Goodfellas ( see a pattern emerging?). The other two lighten the load, they are You, Me and Dupree and The Wendell Baker story..



..I bought this blind on the basis of the Wilson brothers involvement. If these lighten the load considerably I've got the Soprano's last season to finish off thanks to Jagger. I took a breather from the three episodes a night after getting in at midnight regularly and still filling the quota. Normal service will resume shortly. If you're short of a dvd to watch we have a treat for you this weekend. A box showed up today from Joe Perrin filled with..



..I watched a bit of the Fred Gall section already and it's sick!! I'm going to give it some proper attention when I can. From what I've caught it's a good one, liking the music too. Come and get one, they're £11.95. I saw this Prosthetic arm holding a parking ticket behind the windscreen of a car down Jon Laidlow's road and I liked it..



Arm to the leg, leg, arm to the head. See you all tomorrow, actually I probably won't you'll all be at Bestival.